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Qatar, Al Khor
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The school has a pastoral care system that provides a positive, supportive, and safe school experience. It includes guidelines on behaviour and attendance and a home–school agreement.
The Learning Support department offers personalised programmes for identified SEN. All academic staff differentiate learning, and the department supports students within the mainstream classroom.
The Learning Support department offers English as an Additional Language (EAL) support to identified students, identified at admission and through ongoing collaboration with academic staff, to help integrate into all subject areas and progress.
The school prioritises welfare and safeguarding to support mental wellbeing, with annual safeguarding training for staff and CPOMS to report and manage concerns about student safety.
Safeguarding and child protection are priorities; staff and volunteers share this commitment, guided by robust safeguarding policies; designated safeguarding leads are available, and safeguarding training is provided annually by National Online Safety.
Al Khor International School (AKIS) is a large, co-educational all-through school in Al Khor Community, about 40 kilometres north of Doha. It serves more than 4,000 students aged 3–18 and delivers the British Curriculum with iGCSE and AS/A Level pathways in English. The curriculum is adapted to MoEHE requirements for Arabic Language, Islamic Studies and Qatar History, and includes licensed CBSE components. AKIS is licensed by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and accredited by COBIS, BSME and COIS; it is an approved examination centre for Cambridge International and Pearson Edexcel. The campus operates across four buildings with a staff of over 500 teachers and more than 50 administrators. Core features include Model United Nations and the Duke of Edinburgh International Award; extensive sports facilities (running track, indoor/outdoor pools, two grass football pitches, climbing wall); Learning Support and EAL; five libraries and a Virtual Library; and a broad ECA program in academics, sport and culture.
