The International School Award

When teaching is more than teaching… When teaching is serving others, using innovative techniques, and creating special programs… When teaching is bringing the world to our classroom, building character and promoting global awareness and international understanding..

This is how we view teaching at Khalil Shehab School, and that’s why we signed up for “School Links Project”, funded by the U.K. government and managed by the British Council. This project links our school to a school in Nottinghill in the United Kingdom. The idea behind it is simple: bringing together teachers and students from different countries and enabling them to share their learning, culture, language and experiences with the aid of ICT and exchange visits. Through this program our students will exploit a variety of global learning partnership. This includes doing activities with students in the U.K. through video conferencing, e-mails, and internet projects. Exchange visits will also occur at least twice a year.

The benefits from joining such a project are numerous. This project must move our students linguistically, socially and culturally. We are promoting these links to ensure that our students are given opportunities to broaden their horizons and to raise their achievements especially in the foreign language. This project will also promote the use of ICT in a meaningful context. The contact of our students with students of similar age in the U.K. encourages them to be familiar with different customs, thus encourages intercultural awareness. Our students will practice social interaction & form friendship. Even more importantly we hope that this international partnership will raise educational standards and students’ fluency.

You are never too young to start understanding other customs, tradition and cultures. You are never too young to speak fluently as a native speaker. This is our philosophy at Makassed Philanthropic Islamic Association. This is our philosophy at Khalil Shehab School. We are living in an interconnected world, a global village. Cultural visits, partnership with a school in the U.K., a diverse range of language teaching staff exchange & online collaboration are some of the opportunities on offer by the British Council. Not only that, but also the International School Award (ISA) only if we prove to be up to its standard. We’ll work for it, and hopefully we’ll deservingly get it. It will be an International badge of honor to us, and for our students a passport to the world - an opportunity of learning beyond the classroom…

Ghina Al Badawi Hafez
Principal