Student
I'm a girl and I study in this school but i have a lot to talk about.
First, I'll start with the horrible stuff in this school. The way the school looks from inside is OK besides that this school is REALLY old. The Building of KG and Primary 1-6 is OK and they're decorated and nice and all but it all starts from Grade 7. They don't repaint the walls there are a lot of rusts and Texts from students on the Walls. Tables are REALLY, REALLY OLD and most of them feel uncomfortable to sit on that I bring a small pillow so it could make me comfortable. Second, BULLYING. Bullying is really popular in school even from a young age. I Don't know about boy's section. But for Girl's section oh god a true nightmare. Girls bully others for the slightest things like; hair, face, clothes, body. I've never gotten bullied before, but I SAW girls getting bullied by others whether its verbal, cyber, or physical. The school every semester gives a paper about bullying and the 6 stages of bullying and for example stage 1 " verbal " you'll get a warning letter or maybe a call from your parents. But these are the least thing, and it doesn't even happen. Third, UNIFORM the school wants us to wear the school uniform which is a skirt and shirt. ALL girls in the school ignore the Shirt, even I do! Why? because first its transparent you could see the underclothes from inside. And its fabric is bad that it makes you hot really fast (even if its winter) and then it makes u smell really bad. AND AGAIN, if you smell bad you get bullied or you get dirty looks from girls. The uniform has been the same since KG1 so i wish for the school to change it up a little bit. THERE ARE NO PE CLOTHES! the school does not give you a Pe uniform so we wear normal pants or something we can have pe in. Then the observer comes and sees you with pants, so she gives you a warning letter that needs to be signed by your parent. Oh, and let's not forget Half of the girls wear inappropriate clothes like tight. Not just tight but REALLY tight. Some wear revealing clothes and still the school doesn't do anything about it, and I'm used to it by now. Fourth, SUBJECTS. Now I'm very mad at this point. We had Art and French and baam! they deleted these two subjects since grade 8. Art is only till Grade 7 and French has been cancelled from the whole school. We went to the Administrator and told her, and she didn't do anything about it. FIFTH, there are barely any activities in school so we need ACTIVITIES. We arent even aloud to go to the library or Science / computer lab. So, like too much money for what?
Now Finally The good stuff. TEACHERS !!! not all teachers are good but most of them are. I heard reviews say that English teachers aren't fluent. But they are fluent and wonderful. Math teachers are the best starting from Grade 6. Quran teachers are Nice
Most of the teachers are Indian / Pakistanis but they're English is understandable and GOOD. Rep teachers aren't really much.
So overall all we as 8th graders take ( English , Math , Chem , Physics , Bio , Islamic , Quran , Rep , Arabic , Business , Social Studies , and Computer )
TAHFEETH !!! there are Normal Classes and Tahfeeth. Tahfeeth are only 3 classes which are ( A - B - C ). Im in a Tahfeeth Class and we take quran Everyday And I love it ! Inshallah ill Complete The whole quran this year. Excited !!!
Thats it Hopefully some people will take a thing or two from what i wrote. This is my Honest review and I'm not exaggerating in anything. Have a Good Day!
16 other reviews for Al-Rowad International School - (Reviews aren't verified )
Showing 14 reviews by parents and students.
Parent
The kindergarten section of the school is excellent and very well organised, there is a lot of focus on creating a balanced curriculum, build both english and arabic language skills for the student. They have a lot of acitivites and teachers are excellent.
Parent
Great school with a strong islamic values coupled with best teaching practices ensuring develop into leaders of the future using who upright models of in society as well as industry leaders
Parent
The school adopts an Islamic identity and has strong phocus on using English language throughout the activities. Staff are supporting and salah and Islamic teachings are daily.
Student
It's really the best school
Parent
providing quality education rooted in Islamic values
Parent
Academic and environment is amazing
Student
I have no idea how this school is still in business. When I first entered, it felt like entering an ancient villa made centuries ago, the building is really really shabby and the classrooms are extremely poor in condition, AC keeps...streaming water on the students, it doesn't drip, it streams down on us. So we cannot use the AC much. the desks and tables are very old schooled and uncomfortable, there are broken tiles and walls. the IGCSE boy's ground is literally just a compact small tiled rectangular court which can be a death area if you try to go to the canteen which is in the court, the football grounds are for literal babies...
The only good thing in class is that they have those big touchscreen TVs.
student care? gah
I have been constantly bullied and treated horribly by some of my classmates, even being cyberbullied. they did things that are against the Saudi Arabian ... read full review
Student
I was in this school from kg3 to grade 5, some teachers are really good and kind but some are terrible teachers.
The facilities are old and dirty
If you want your child to go to the top universities in the world I don't suggest this school
Parent
I want to share my experience during admission interview of my child 4 years to kg1 , the teacher did the interview was very rude and tough which made my child scary and silent without responding to her questions , this makes her more nervous and in a very rude way she told me your son is rejected try to look for other school .
This initial behaviour gave me an impression about how bad the staff running the education process in this school , thanks God that my child wasn't accepted by this group of failed teachers .
Student
I am a student from KG-1 Until Grade 8 Boys section I don't pre fare that your student enter this school every thing is bad but only the good thing is Islamic Side there is a tahfeez Classes from Grade 1 until Grade 8
and the new andistrmation olny need money bad school and baaaaad education.
Parent
The school is overcrowded, its a nightmare to drop/pick up your kid every day.
Teachers lack educational skills and scientific knowledge.
The school treats girls is a very restricted closed minded way. No P.E uniforms are sold by the schools, and the girls are not to wear pants! The principle makes the students wear skirts on top of their pants during P.E!
Any complaint you raise, receives silence or aggressive response from the school.
If you care about your kids education, keep them away from this school. Transferring my kid for sure.
Parent
The management changed .No one seems to know what they doing . Inexperienced staff
No security.
Student
big building, big classrooms and several cafeterias.
Parent
have a mixed review of this school.
Administration: I rate 0.
They placed my child in the wrong KG class which affected him in Grade1. When I moved him up they failed to register him to the right Arabic classes.
The entire process of registration to collection of books and finding classrooms is a huge boiling pot of mess and incompetence! The school internal logistics fail miserably.
Admin is incompetent, methods used in the process students into their classrooms are at least 50 years out of date and there is no sign of the school wanting to improve anything.
We went twice to collect workbooks both times, not the entire list was given to us and the parents do not have a list to go by.
Some struggle to speak English and they teach English curriculum, my child went to the wrong class for two years the teachers said nothing!
On the other side, Islamic education and British ... read full review
