At KIS, we prioritize and strive to ensure that Inclusion is at the heart of our practices benefiting our entire school community. We are strongly committed to set high expectations and ambitions for all our children and expect them to participate in every part of school life – with a key focus on their wellbeing and progress.
KIS aims to support children by removing barriers to their inclusion, whether for individuals or groups of children, and respond to a spectrum of diverse needs by setting suitable challenges that are best placed to bring out the full potential from our children.
Furthermore, at KIS, we ensure an effective program is in place to identify students who are gifted and talented and make certain they are provided with an abundance of opportunities to further hone and develop their gifts and talents.
As outlined by the United Arab Emirates School Inspection Framework (2015- 2016):
Gifted – The term giftedness refers to “a student who is in possession of untrained and spontaneously-expressed exceptional natural ability in one or more domains of human ability”. These domains will include intellectual, creative, social, physical abilities. In the case of a gifted student, whilst exceptional potential will be present, they may underachieve.
Talented – The term talented refers to “a student who has been able to transform their ‘giftedness’ into exceptional performance”. Talented students will always demonstrate exceptional levels of competence in the specific domains of human ability.
Inclusion Department: