Arabic | The Winchester School

Arabic Department

Head of Department: Mr. Yasser Fayez Mohammed
Email ID: YASSER.M_WIN@gemsedu.com

Department Philosophy:

To make learning the Arabic language more interesting and fun for our students, and make them able to communicate with the community around them in Arabic.

Department Facilities / Resources:

The Department of Arabic Language provides the following facilities:

Bright classrooms with digital projectors and interactive whiteboards.
Many books in Arabic in the school library.
Websites to learn Arabic.
Special activities in Arabic after school for students and parents

Key Points from Department Policy:

The study of Arabic develops children’s abilities to listen, speak, read and write for a wide range of purposes, so using language to learn and communicate ideas with others.
Arabs students will study the Ministry syllabus till year 12.
In each year group we have two levels in Arabic Advance level and core level according to the knowledge of our students in Arabic.
We use a variety of teaching and learning styles in Arabic lessons (IT, group work, pairs work, conversations and interactive activities)
We offer Arabic at the IGCSE level and our results in the last 3 years were:

100% (NON ARABS)

100% - 2009; 92 % - 2010; 100% - 2011,100% for both Arabs and Non Arabs - 2012

Monitoring of the standards of the children’s work and of the quality of teaching Arabic.

Assessment Procedure:

Formative assessments take place in class throughout the year.

Summative assessments take place at the end of each term.

Students are given diagnostic feedback after each assignment

Extra-curricular Activities: