Our goal is to achieve as far as possible, the six stepping stones of the British Curriculum. These include:
 

1. • Personal, Social, and Emotional Development
2. • Communication, Language, and Literacy
3. • Mathematics
4. • Knowledge and Understanding of the World
5. • Physical Development
6. • Creative Development

• On a daily basis, the children will enjoy our circle time, Science lessons given with real aids.
• Small group and whole class activities to support the achievement of the early learning steps.

We are hosting smart boards in all grade classrooms including KG, so children can learn all about ICT.


We offer school trips school Partys events and offer a great exciting Hajj event and show for all our children. Animales come to visit our school, the kids feed the sheep and learn all about Hajj in real life.  We offer end of term Graduation party for all children only and a class photos if wanted for each child.
 

All of our teachers are professional and fully qualified , who have a great passion to work with children.

In our new expanded school Al-alalameen, we are now offer three curriculums for you to choose from. The Montessori or the British traditional or Montessori tradional ( British books with montessori materials combined. The chart below outlines the advantages and disadvantages on both programs, to help you as a parent decide what is best for your child.
 

In our new expanded school Al-alalameen, we now offer the 2 curriculums for you to choose from. The Montessori or the British traditional. The chart below outlines the advantages and disadvantages on both programs, to help you as a parent decide what is best for your child.

Maria Montessori (1870 to 1952) has been and still is one of the most influential pioneers in early childhood education. The Montessori approach to education, and one that is applied in our setting, is an approach that allows the children to develop in a natural way.

Our aim is to provide the best possible conditions to promote physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development.

All the activities are displayed at child level which enables the children to choose their own activities. Qualified staffs encourage and support the children. The Montessori equipment in our setting ensures learning is fun and interesting; there is a variety of things to do, which cover almost every aspect of life itself. To us the children’s freedom, dignity and independence are of paramount importance.

Montessori Method

The Montessori system of education, named after Dr. Maria Montessori has today, become synonymous with pre-school education. Her concepts revolutionized the way the world saw small children.

She referred to the mind of a child between 3 & 6 years of age, as the Absorbent Mind. During this time he literally absorbs everything in his environment through sensorial exploration. By sensorial absorbing the surroundings, a child forms his personality and himself. He constructs his mind, his memory, power to understand and ability to think through impressions gained from the

Environment.

Educational research has also verified that the early years are the most important years of a child's life. It is during the period between conception and four years that the child develops 50-60 % of his intelligence and another 30% between the ages 4 to 8 years. Very little develops after that. Today each parent wants to give their child the best education; however they have grown to realize that academic achievement alone will not prepare their child for life.

Each child has certain vital needs as it grows up. In an academic environment these needs are generalized, hence these needs may be overlooked. However Montessori education strives to fulfil these individual needs.

"When we think about mixed ages, we must make sure we aren't starving children intellectually or physically... we should not have a supermarket, but just what is essential."

Language is enriched within the environment through the use of phonetic games, songs, rhymes, stories, books, and writing through the introduction of the sand paper letters.

Language is also present throughout the classroom as everything is labelled to encourage an interest in reading. In our classroom we try to promote cultural awareness through our Cultural area. We encourage children to explore and investigate their environment, using the equipment that Montessori developed for this purpose. Biology, geography, history and simple science activities are included in this area.

We like Montessori values; we feel that it is very important that the child is able to express themselves freely in the Creative area. Various materials are available for the children to use to make, draw, cut, glue, model, etc.

Traditional Classroom

 Montessori Environment

Textbooks, pencil and paper, worksheets and dittos

 Prepared kinaesthetic materials with incorporated control of error, specially developed reference materials

Working and learning without emphasis on social development

 Working and learning matched to the social development of the child

Narrow, unit-driven curriculum

 Unified, internationally developed curriculum

Individual subjects

 Integrated subjects and learning based on developmental psychology

Block time, period lessons

 Uninterrupted work cycles

Single-graded classrooms

 Multi-age classrooms

Student’s passive, quiet, in desks

 Student’s active, talking, with periods of spontaneous quiet, freedom to move

Students fit mould of School meets needs of students

Students leave for special help

 Special help comes to students

Product-focused report cards

 Process-focused assessment, skills checklists, mastery benchmarks