Ajman, UAE · PrivateWoodlem American Private School is an American school in Ajman, on Sheikh Ammar Bin Humaid Street in Al Jurf 2, and part of the Woodlem Education group. The school describes its curriculum as American, balanced and built on inquiry: children are taught to work things out, to ask questions and to connect ideas to real life, and the school names creativity, collaboration and critical thinking outright as the things it rests on. The kindergarten is run on the Montessori approach and on the principle of the child taking the lead: it builds independence, confidence and a love of learning, with teachers and parents closely involved. The school speaks of itself as an environment rooted in American standards and the values of the UAE.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · accreditationWoodlem Education · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
The widest-reaching American accreditation: some forty thousand schools in over a hundred countries. It accredits both individual schools and whole school systems. It also sells a paid membership with no inspection behind it, and that membership is often passed off as accreditation.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.
Woodlem Education is a school group in the UAE; its site is woodlemeducation.com. The list there gives nine schools, all in Dubai and Ajman: Woodlem Park School in Al Jurf, Al Hamidiya and Al Qusais, Woodlem British School in Al Hamidiya, Woodlem American School in Al Jurf 2, Dewvale School in Al Quoz, Hampton Heights International School in Al Twar, Hampton British Private School in Al Raqaib, and Columbia Crest American School in Ajman; schools in India stand as a separate menu section. Against those nine schools the homepage counters show «1000+ Students» and «100+ Teachers», while two neighbouring ones are not filled in at all - «0% Graduations» and «0+ Nationalities». The site gives no founding year for the group; the oldest school is dated by its own campus site - Al Jurf «established in 2017», called there «The mother school of Woodlem Education» and «premier campus under Woodlem Education». On ownership and management the only wording is «network of schools».
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.