Arabic
ARABIC STUDIES
The teaching of Arabic studies at Repton School gives every pupil a broad, well-balanced amount of language material to commensurate with our pupils’ abilities. The school offers learning programmes based on the following frameworks:
- * UAE Ministry of Education (MOE)
- * Edexcel IGCSE (Arabic 1st and 2nd language)
- * IB Arabic A1, A2, Arabic B.
Arabic studies is considered as a compulsory course for Arab Nationals up to Year 12 (MOE)
Arabic studies is to be taken by non-Arabs as a second language course up to Year 9.
Social subjects curriculum for the UAE is presented to all students across the various stages. 
ARABIC DEPARTMENT
All of our Arabic teachers are experienced in their field. They have been selected for their high standard of classroom management skills and knowledge of teaching/training techniques.
Our teachers have a proven record of success and are led by a highly-experienced academic specialists on national and international levels of Arabic studies.
Our Arabic teachers come from a variety of different backgrounds including Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Algeria.
At Repton School, the primary focus is on four major areas:
• The Curriculum
• The Learners
• The Teachers
• The Resources
Repton School adopts as an integral part of its mission statement, the UAE National Curriculum in Arabic and is committed to excel in its implementation.
The Arabic language curriculum in both primary and secondary schools aims to help learners lay a good foundation in
learning Arabic, paving the way for independent and lifelong learning and effective communication of knowledge,
ideas, values, attitudes and experience. It is built on existing good practices, with emphases on learner- centredness and task-based learning, promoting a balanced use of approaches appropriate to the needs and interests of first or second language learners. To facilitate effective learning and teaching, teachers are encouraged to enhance learners’ experience through:
• Providing ample opportunities and a conducive environment for the learning and practise of language forms
(including text types,vocabulary, and grammar items and structures), communicative functions, and language skills in
meaningful contexts.
• Making extensive use of a variety of text types (including stories and informational reports) to develop critical
thinking and encourage free expression and creativity.
• Promoting the development of learning and language development, strategies, values and attitudes to enhance
effective, independent and lifelong learning.
Emphasis has been focussed on the learners and the teachers through various modern methods and training programmes
to teachers. Our teachers will be trained to understand the theoretical principles of first and second-language
acquisition in order to implement effective teaching programs.
The Arabic department is keen on ensuring good classroom organisation and management for effective Arabic language
and literacy development.
Bringing Language Learning to Life
The new multimedia Language Learning Software Programme will allow pupils to work with audio and video material, use interactive exercises and websites and link together themed resources into text, audio, video and gap-fill exercises. Pupils can practise both their listening and their speaking in contexts that reproduce as closely as possible the situation of being in any country where Arabic is spoken.