Secondary School Curriculum & Assessments
Preparing for success, one milestone at a time.
Our curriculum challenges students to excel while assessments ensure readiness for the future.
The Ta’allum Secondary curriculum, based on the National Curriculum for England and Wales, is carefully constructed to support our students to achieve success. Success as learners, success as leaders and success as global citizens.
With an ethos firmly founded within Qatari and Islamic values, Ta’allum’s broad and balanced Secondary curriculum reflects the very best of English and Arabic practice to ensure well-rounded provision for all – moral, personal and academic. The Secondary curriculum plan is rigorously standardised to support both Ta’allum and MOE criteria but also differentiated to meet the needs of every student and equip them with the learning they need to achieve their best and to reach their goals, whether that be as an engineer, a scientist, a business owner or any other career they are aiming to accomplish. With the Secondary Curriculum, each student can discover their strengths and their passions, their creativity and their independence.
The Ta’allum Secondary Curriculum promotes a culture of positivity and high expectations of all; everyone within our learning community, including teachers and parents, is expected to be student-centred and support students’ intellectual, emotional and cultural growth. We utilise the specialist subject skills of staff to enhance the learning experience and maximise the learning outcomes; academic data is used as a tool for progression and individual development whilst the pastoral programme compliments a holistic approach.
As part of a global society, Ta’allum recognises the importance of world-wide competencies, including the need for higher-level critical and independent thinking and the use of technology. As a part of this, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technological platforms are embedded within the Secondary curriculum and additional cyber skills grounded in robotics, coding and computing are emphasised. Digital expertise and technological literacy is an ever developing need that the Secondary Curriculum aims to fulfil. Other extra-curricular opportunities are also extensive – from the global awareness of Model United Nations and the Scientific Research Projects to the values based Qu’ran and Hadith Competitions.
Overall, the Secondary Curriculum is designed and sequenced to support each student’s flightpath from Year 7 up to the IGCSE and AS Level exams because we believe that each student deserves to fly. With a wide range of subjects from Life Skills, Makarem and Humanities to Mathematics, English and the Science, Ta’allum students experience a programme that inspires curiosity and a love for learning.
The Ta’allum Secondary Curriculum aims to:
- Promote an ethos of high expectation, challenge and opportunity for all students.
- Offer formal, timetabled lessons and a wealth of co-curricular activities and experiences, as promoted and supported by the Academy.
- Meet the needs of every student by providing effective teaching and experiential learning, so they experience, enjoy and succeed in a wide range of subjects.
- Take into account students’ different starting points and prior learning and acknowledge the need for progression and continuity to build on the learning experiences of the individual.
- Develop students’ intellectual, emotional, social, moral, cultural, and physical
- Place focus on promoting literacy and numeracy across the curriculum, using a broad range of integrated technologies to support teaching and learning.
- Ensure differentiation for students to make and exceed expected progress in each subject area, including individual and group support and extension.
- Ensure appropriate content levels for all ability ranges and provides extension and challenge for Gifted & Talented
- Recognise and appreciate the role of Global Business and an authentic connection with the wider community (both local and global) in the education of our young people.
- Prepare students carefully and thoroughly for public examinations, statutory tests and to achieve accredited qualifications leading to
- Provide students access to universities in Qatar and throughout the world.
Curriculum Aims
- To offer a broad, balanced, challenging curriculum that, as well as fulfilling the National Curriculum, develops confidence, aesthetic awareness, a sense of fair-play, sound moral values and self-esteem.
- To provide first hand experiences that encourage the pupil to question, investigate and seek solutions.
- To develop a home/school partnership as a basis for successful education in which the parents share responsibilities with the school and play a major part as co-educators of their child.
- To develop the child’s confidence, self-knowledge, skills and attitudes towards learning which will enable him/her to grow towards being a caring, responsible member of the wider community.
- To enhance our pupils’ awareness and appreciation of cultures, including their own.
The intellectually challenging academic dual-curriculum ensures that our cultural considerations are integral to all that is taught in all subject areas. Students will be educated to the highest standards in a warm, friendly, secure and conservative environment. The environmental conditions to learning are further achieved by the school’s healthy and balanced emphasis on discipline and fostering respect by all, for all.
The Secondary Curriculum: Key Stage 3 (Year/Grade 7-9), Key Stage 4 (Year/Grade 10 and 11) and 6th Form (Year/Grade 12 and 13)
At Key Stage 3, students continue to deepen their knowledge and skills in the subjects studied at Key Stage 2. At the end of Year 9, students sit for the Cambridge Checkpoints in English.
The papers are also marked in the UK for benchmarking purposes.
In Year 10, students study the IGCSE courses based on the Edexcel/Cambridge IGCSE Subject Specifications. Students study a variety of subjects other than the core subjects such as Accounting, Art and design…
Qatar National standards for Arabic, Social Studies and Islamic studies
Arabic Subjects
Throughout their studies at AMA , students also follow an intensive Arabic programme of study set by the (SEC) and in some cases also take up external exams for these subjects from the UK Edexcel Exam Board.
Arabic Language
Arabic is the language of the Qur’an and it is our aim to ensure that every student at AMA is able to read, write and communicate in this language to the highest standards in Fusha ),
From grade 4 and above there are separate classes for native speakers of Arabic and for students who study Arabic as an Additional Language
At Key Stage 4, students prepare for the IGCSE Arabic First Language or Arabic Second Language
Islamic Studies& Social Studies
The school follows an enriched curriculum set by SEC. Students are also given a good understanding of social aspects, Islamic history and geography.
Teaching of the Noble Qur’an
The teaching of the Noble Qur’an is core to the school. Qur’an is taught with Tajweed by qualified teachers. Our aim is to help the children memorise the whole Qur’an with Tajweed, insha-Allah.