School of Modern Skills

Very Good school. Other schools in Dubai have very high fees. But this school has resonable fees and good teaching

I graduated last year, so I hope this information might help you understand the current view or at least from my experience avoiding what other comments may say about this school. First of all, the school is growing to be better by encouraging students to develop their English, hence bringing new teachers and disqualifying older ones which this act is considered horrible. The school administrator does not think from an emotional perspective as to how the student may connect with the teacher, how the teacher uses different methods to teach different students, and how comfortable students are with the teacher. In other words, your favorite teacher in the middle of the semester can be replaced, this is one of the cons. Second, believe it or not, they have amazing supervisors to keep students in line and safe. They’re fair and will take even teachers accountable for their actions. The principal is always open to good ideas which is one of the many pros. The school is colorful from the inside, the classroom is well-organized and the works of students are polished across the hallways. They take the cautious measurement to ensure your child is in safe hands. They have remarkable activities with the student council carrying events.

Things the school can work on is treating the students as if they’re adults instead of children. To be aware of how the mental health of a student is instead of academic only. Specializing someone students can go to when they’re feeling down or have family problems is a way to promote to the school that they care about a student’s well-being too. The administration is outgoing, there are no complaints about that. The library needs to be updated with books about history, Islamic values, poetry, well-known famous people, especially novels (on the boy's campus at least). The same teacher that leaves the administration with a smile, vents to his student's midclass about how he suffers. Administrators have powers against teachers, do not make teachers feel like they cannot express themselves during a meeting. As a student, I’ve seen teachers act in a certain way.

I wish they could take the suggestion box seriously at school, instead of making it one final decision, make it a voting system between the administrative. The restrooms are clean, the school’s staff are well cooperative. P.E teachers do not take their jobs seriously; they are absent or occupied with their phones instead of interacting with students. Acting professionally does not always mean successful business; when a student asks one of the staff a simple question or a suggestion and they tell the students to send an email to them it's a way to tell them that you’re not interested in what they (the students) have to say. This comes back to treating students like adults. The buses are well-equipped as well.

The playground is good for children and adults. I would appreciate it if there is a year-photo album of the classes graduating with quotes underneath that are appropriate. The art classes are taken seriously which is great. The science teachers listen to students. The math teachers listen to students. Any Arabic subject; Arabic, social, Holy Quran, Islamic is disregarded as not valuable enough for the staff to care about the progress, because there is no Arabic speaker in the administration that would care about the student’s identity or culture to put enough effort as much as they would in French, English and science.

Lastly, the system. How the system plays out is simple. It doesn't matter how high you will score in the first semester, how much effort you’ve placed, it’ll be against the teacher, claiming it’s the teacher’s fault that the student received high scores (this comes back to how the students feel connected to the teacher and how the school takes advantage of it by replacing the better teacher with a good teacher to keep the classes’ average minimum) — In other words, they want students to start low and build up occasionally to demonstrate how effective their teaching is. This is frowned upon. That's about it.

Worst school ever. Extremely rude and unprofessional principal. The school has no morals and is disgusting. They fake everything for every inspection then go back to being absolute garbage. Would not recommend if you actually want to have a life.

This school was decent, I am a former student at the school and I didn’t really like the experience. The principle, Rabee, was highly disrespectful and would get angry at unnecessary things, I remember when I was grade 3 and he would call me to his office for eating in class, I remember he said to me that he will call my parent and tell them that I would be suspended from school for 3 days, just for eating in class, I loved the school interms of friends and some teachers and also the activity’s they had were fun

Extremely unprofessional school. Worst principal ever, she is extremely rude and disrespectful. She bashes students and thinks very highly of herself even though she is disgustingly rude and is 100% not fit to work ANYWHERE.

Highly DO NOT ADVISE you to put your child through this school. Very un ethical, very unprofessional, and very un-systematic. I do not encourage you whatsoever on admitting your child to this school. My son has been through one term only and most teachers treat the him on a very un-respectful way. The principal also is another problem on its own left to be talked about,she is extremely and highly unprofessional. Very disappointing to have these kinds of schools in our country.

I can't say anything bad at the moment about the staff because they are exceptional, but the principal.... She is EXTREMELY disrespectful and rude. She is the absolute worst.

The school is nice the staff members are amazing