To be one of the leading quality K-12 (Kindergarten to Grade 12) School and Nursery Education providers in the Middle East by building truly exceptional schools which inspire, empower and enlighten students, and enrich the communities that we are part of.
Overview: With its head office in Dubai, Fortes Education builds, owns and operates quality schools. Fortes Education has been involved in the building, development and management of schools since 1993 consistently delivering a high quality education to hundreds of students.
Fortes Education is a diverse organization made up of dynamic educational leaders, committed teachers, educators, and innovators, and caring individuals who seek to improve education through the establishment of innovative schools that help students realize their potential.
We are able to deliver and accomplish our goals through our research-based school curricula, achievement based educational systems, intensive staff professional development, and innovative learning programs.
Fortes has a strong leadership team that combines business and education expertise from around the globe. We work closely with the local government authorities to improve the standards of education and to make quality education more accessible to the broader community.
We deliver rich, challenging and research-based curricula that is balanced yet academically rigorous and is supplemented with a wide variety of extra-curricular and sports activities to promote holistic student development.
We employ an achievement & assessment based educational system to deliver a superior education to children which also enables a Fortes school to exceed international benchmarks in student outcomes.
We deliver an inclusive education with extended learning programs to accommodate gifted as well as challenged students.
We are committed to employing dynamic and motivated teachers and education leaders, providing staff continuous professional development, and providing educators with the time, resources, training and support they need to effectively meet the challenges of the classroom. Through continuous professional development, and training in areas like lLeadership, teaching and learning, ICT, literacy and language, the performing arts, well being and coaching, teachers are kept abreast of the latest developments in modern pedagogy so that they are able to a world class education.
Our heads and principals have a proven track record of delivering a world class education. They motivate and inspire their teams to produce the best results in and outside the classroom. They practise Fortes’ Core Values and ensure our schools are ‘engaged’ with all stakeholders – students, parents, the community, teachers and staff.
We are developing expertise in various international curricula including the British, American, Indian, International Baccalaureate.
Fortes students have won numerous awards for academics and our academic results regularly exceed national and international benchmarks in student outcomes.
Fortes has a strong management team and dynamic team of educators and teachers well-versed in global best practices in education, curriculum development and delivery, and school management.
Our teachers are carefully selected and highly qualified and motivated and ensure we deliver the best possible intellectual, personal and social learning experiences for our students. Teachers are empowered to: create stimulating lessons to allow students to acquire, practise and reflect on their growing knowledge and skills. They address the unique needs of individual students so become increasingly independent. They instil values such as tolerance, ethics and interpersonal relationships, are role models worthy of emulation and impart key life skills such as discipline, perseverance and a respect for duty.
Fortes provides its team continuous professional development so that our team are abreast of the best teaching and learning practices and trained in international accreditation, inspection methodologies and school self evaluation.
We encourage a culture of accountability to our students and parents by performance managingour staff. We believe in employing a hospitalityand customer focus in a Fortes school where parents are positively engaged, teachers are happy and fulfilled by their work, and students are appreciated and enjoy their school experience.
We have developed and deliver a strong Education in Human Values Programme – a multi-faith self-development programme – designed so our schools have a conscience and designed to build the foundation of character and values in students so they become upstanding and compassionate citizens with an appreciation of different religions and creeds.
Our schools have a heavy focus on philanthropy with all our stakeholders regularly participating in various charity, community and volunteer work, and students taught the meaning of real compassion.
A Fortes school employs innovative design and world-class facilities and infrastructure.
A Fortes school has excellent school facilities and equipment incorporating the latest thinking in design, technology and functionality. The school infrastructure is an organic part of the education experience and actively promotes the student’s intellectual, emotional, moral, and physical growth.
A Fortes school typically has a wide range of facilities that include well equipped classes and science laboratories; art & craft centres, music rooms, a drama and performing arts hall; large multi-purpose halls; swimming pools; basketball, volleyball, tennis and netball courts; a soccer pitch; multiple libraries; break-out zones; a student canteen and hang-out zones; multiple play areas; and more.
To uphold the quality of our education, Fortes implements continuous school improvement plans (SIPs) where a school undergoes a 360 degree appraisal by stakeholders that includes parents, students and teachers. Through our SIPs and regular appraisals, we are able to uphold our 5 Pledges to our stakeholders to continuously better the education we deliver.
Pledge 1: Quality of Leadership
Members of our Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Middle Leadership Team (MLT), Teachers and Teaching Assistants (TA’s) are dedicated educators who are carefully selected. They have experience in administering international schools that follow the curriculum adopted. We pledge to uphold the high quality of our staff and to improve the expertise of the staff through continuous professional development.
SLT conducts regular self-evaluation (SE) of the school's strengths and weaknesses using the Dubai School’s Inspection Bureau (DSIB) and the Quality of its accreditation agencies. The SE underpins our School Improvement Plan (SIP), which drives the school forward. We pledge to continuously improve our ratings on the inspections carried out by the accreditation agencies.
We believe our children and parents should have opportunities to provide feedback on the school’s and staff’s performance via communication channels and surveys. By listening and involving our stakeholders, we pledge to improve.
Pledge 2: Quality of Learning
Inspection indicators show that all our lessons are "good or outstanding" when judged against DSIB criteria. We pledge to improve on these standards.
Our lessons are dynamic catering for Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic learning styles.
To assure the quality of our learning programs we: standardise planning and monitor plans via an approval hierarchy; observe lesson delivery; regularly assess and review students learning; set learning foci and targets to a student’s personal and benchmarked norms; develop cross-curricular links amongst all learning areas.
Staff members are observed regularly and frequently. Specific individual feedback and regular training is given to staff so that the quality of teaching learning and assessment is constantly improving.
Part of staff performance management uses student and parental surveys to rate a teacher’s performance.
We encourage students throughout the school to work cooperatively and collaboratively.
We encourage students to think critically and to apply their learning in other settings and in the real world.
We pledge to improve all of the above key metrics to improve the quality of learning delivered to our students.
Pledge 3: Quality of Pastoral Care
Our pastoral care is reported as being "outstanding" by the DSIB inspection team.
We track student’s behavior thoroughly and motivate them through a system based around rewards.
Staff members hold regular meetings where an individual student’s concerns are raised and preventative strategies shared.
We look after our students from the moment they get on our school bus (or are dropped off) to the time they are dropped off at home (or are collected).
We aim to keep parents informed of their child and to keep the children in a safe and secure environment at all times.
We pledge to improve the above metrics to improve the quality of pastoral care delivered to our students.
Pledge 4: Quality of Parental Partnership
We work in partnership with parents and provide a wide spectrum of enrichment activities and support for our students and their parents.
Our elected body of parent representatives actively participate in school life. They promote greater parental involvement in their children's education.
Parents are also involved as partners in setting targets for their children.
We pledge to improve the metrics above to better the quality of parental partnership.
Pledge 5: Quality of Academic Rigour
Our students are regularly assessed formatively and summatively using in-school and 3rd Party Assessment Systems.
We assess, track and benchmark our students’ Attainment and Progress against the curriculum’s and relevant international criteria.
We report assessments results to parents a 5 times per year.
We track and analyze assessment data which informs our teaching and school improvement.
Our curriculum model is innovative and detailed. It reflects recent educational developments, such as Assessing Pupil Progress (APP), Assessment for Learning (AFL) and other strategies.
Our curriculum is regularly reviewed and enriched.
Targets are prominently displayed. We use self and peer assessment strategies for students to evaluate their work and enhance their learning.
We pledge to improve the metrics above to better the quality of academic rigour.
With first rate sports facilities and over 20 team sports and extracurricular activities that includes –football, swimming, rugby, tennis, basketball, dancing, ballet, drama, and acting to name a few – at a Fortes school, we provide a holistic education programme that develops self-confidence, character, teamwork, sportsmanship, excellence, and cultural understanding.
Our sports and other extracurricular activities make room for athletes – who have a serious interest in a sport or a particular activity – as well as beginners. With a wide variety of teams and a variety of playing levels, all Fortes students participate in sports.
Students discover their unique interests and passion. They learn to strive for excellence and push their limits. They learn teamwork skills and sportsmanship working with their peers, and recognizing and appreciating the cultural differences while working towards common goals. And students develop their leadership skills and character through real life competitive contexts that are fun and enjoyable.
In addition to having our own team of highly qualified and motivated Physical Education teachers and instructors who have gone on to lead our teams to win several leagues in various sports such as football, Fortes also partners with leading external sports providers like Active Sports, www.activeuae.com, so that our students have access to wider range of extracurricular activities.
Society is progressing from the “Information Age” where information quantity was power to the “Knowledge Age” where information-processing skills (research, abstraction, processing and synthesis) are required to sift through the vast amounts of information now available to us through the Internet, ebooks and media.
By providing state-of-the-art technological facilities (students have access to computers in every class, interactive whiteboards, various educational and multimedia software, a digital library, printers, scanners, digital and video cameras, and the internet); embedding the latest technology, productivity, education software and social media tools; and training our faculty, students and parents in how to use the software and technology, we aim to develop in our students:
Capability, knowledge and understanding of IT and computers and to use them for practical application in student work.
Skills to work with both hardware and software.
Problem solving, communication, and recording skills.
Fortes Education is dedicated to promoting positive change in the communities our schools are part of as well as the lives of those who are most in need by the volunteer efforts of our students, parents and teachers, and by fundraising and providing financial assistance.
Fortes is committed to inspiring students to become responsible and caring citizens by encouraging the values of giving and sharing. We encourage our students to become involved in community service so they better appreciate the realities of life beyond the walls of a school and also develop compassion for those less fortunate. We also encourage parents and professionals to share with our students their expertise, knowledge and time and play a part as role models of good citizenship. A Fortes school has an active parent body that regularly holds events at the school to raise funds towards various charitable initiatives.
The cultural diversity of our parents and their children is one of Fortes’ greatest assets. Like students, parents bring with them their own cultures and interests, and aspirations for their children. At a Fortes school, we involve our parents in their child’s education and bring to bear the knowledge of their culture into our school’s curriculum and the students’ learning. Parents participate with their children as the students learn about, celebrate and appreciate the of their peers. Parents also socialize and get to know other parents thereby building strong links in the parent community of a Fortes school.
Overview: With its head office in Dubai, Fortes Education builds, owns and operates quality schools. Fortes Education has been involved in the building, development and management of schools since 1993 consistently delivering a high quality education to hundreds of students.
Fortes Education is a diverse organization made up of dynamic educational leaders, committed teachers, educators, and innovators, and caring individuals who seek to improve education through the establishment of innovative schools that help students realize their potential.
We are able to deliver and accomplish our goals through our research-based school curricula, achievement based educational systems, intensive staff professional development, and innovative learning programs.
Fortes has a strong leadership team that combines business and education expertise from around the globe. We work closely with the local government authorities to improve the standards of education and to make quality education more accessible to the broader community.
We deliver rich, challenging and research-based curricula that is balanced yet academically rigorous and is supplemented with a wide variety of extra-curricular and sports activities to promote holistic student development.
We employ an achievement & assessment based educational system to deliver a superior education to children which also enables a Fortes school to exceed international benchmarks in student outcomes.
We deliver an inclusive education with extended learning programs to accommodate gifted as well as challenged students.
We are committed to employing dynamic and motivated teachers and education leaders, providing staff continuous professional development, and providing educators with the time, resources, training and support they need to effectively meet the challenges of the classroom. Through continuous professional development, and training in areas like lLeadership, teaching and learning, ICT, literacy and language, the performing arts, well being and coaching, teachers are kept abreast of the latest developments in modern pedagogy so that they are able to a world class education.
Our heads and principals have a proven track record of delivering a world class education. They motivate and inspire their teams to produce the best results in and outside the classroom. They practise Fortes’ Core Values and ensure our schools are ‘engaged’ with all stakeholders – students, parents, the community, teachers and staff.
We are developing expertise in various international curricula including the British, American, Indian, International Baccalaureate.
Fortes students have won numerous awards for academics and our academic results regularly exceed national and international benchmarks in student outcomes.
Fortes has a strong management team and dynamic team of educators and teachers well-versed in global best practices in education, curriculum development and delivery, and school management.
Our teachers are carefully selected and highly qualified and motivated and ensure we deliver the best possible intellectual, personal and social learning experiences for our students. Teachers are empowered to: create stimulating lessons to allow students to acquire, practise and reflect on their growing knowledge and skills. They address the unique needs of individual students so become increasingly independent. They instil values such as tolerance, ethics and interpersonal relationships, are role models worthy of emulation and impart key life skills such as discipline, perseverance and a respect for duty.
Fortes provides its team continuous professional development so that our team are abreast of the best teaching and learning practices and trained in international accreditation, inspection methodologies and school self evaluation.
We encourage a culture of accountability to our students and parents by performance managingour staff. We believe in employing a hospitalityand customer focus in a Fortes school where parents are positively engaged, teachers are happy and fulfilled by their work, and students are appreciated and enjoy their school experience.
We have developed and deliver a strong Education in Human Values Programme – a multi-faith self-development programme – designed so our schools have a conscience and designed to build the foundation of character and values in students so they become upstanding and compassionate citizens with an appreciation of different religions and creeds.
Our schools have a heavy focus on philanthropy with all our stakeholders regularly participating in various charity, community and volunteer work, and students taught the meaning of real compassion.
A Fortes school employs innovative design and world-class facilities and infrastructure.
A Fortes school has excellent school facilities and equipment incorporating the latest thinking in design, technology and functionality. The school infrastructure is an organic part of the education experience and actively promotes the student’s intellectual, emotional, moral, and physical growth.
A Fortes school typically has a wide range of facilities that include well equipped classes and science laboratories; art & craft centres, music rooms, a drama and performing arts hall; large multi-purpose halls; swimming pools; basketball, volleyball, tennis and netball courts; a soccer pitch; multiple libraries; break-out zones; a student canteen and hang-out zones; multiple play areas; and more.
To uphold the quality of our education, Fortes implements continuous school improvement plans (SIPs) where a school undergoes a 360 degree appraisal by stakeholders that includes parents, students and teachers. Through our SIPs and regular appraisals, we are able to uphold our 5 Pledges to our stakeholders to continuously better the education we deliver.
Pledge 1: Quality of Leadership
Members of our Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Middle Leadership Team (MLT), Teachers and Teaching Assistants (TA’s) are dedicated educators who are carefully selected. They have experience in administering international schools that follow the curriculum adopted. We pledge to uphold the high quality of our staff and to improve the expertise of the staff through continuous professional development.
SLT conducts regular self-evaluation (SE) of the school's strengths and weaknesses using the Dubai School’s Inspection Bureau (DSIB) and the Quality of its accreditation agencies. The SE underpins our School Improvement Plan (SIP), which drives the school forward. We pledge to continuously improve our ratings on the inspections carried out by the accreditation agencies.
We believe our children and parents should have opportunities to provide feedback on the school’s and staff’s performance via communication channels and surveys. By listening and involving our stakeholders, we pledge to improve.
Pledge 2: Quality of Learning
Inspection indicators show that all our lessons are "good or outstanding" when judged against DSIB criteria. We pledge to improve on these standards.
Our lessons are dynamic catering for Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic learning styles.
To assure the quality of our learning programs we: standardise planning and monitor plans via an approval hierarchy; observe lesson delivery; regularly assess and review students learning; set learning foci and targets to a student’s personal and benchmarked norms; develop cross-curricular links amongst all learning areas.
Staff members are observed regularly and frequently. Specific individual feedback and regular training is given to staff so that the quality of teaching learning and assessment is constantly improving.
Part of staff performance management uses student and parental surveys to rate a teacher’s performance.
We encourage students throughout the school to work cooperatively and collaboratively.
We encourage students to think critically and to apply their learning in other settings and in the real world.
We pledge to improve all of the above key metrics to improve the quality of learning delivered to our students.
Pledge 3: Quality of Pastoral Care
Our pastoral care is reported as being "outstanding" by the DSIB inspection team.
We track student’s behavior thoroughly and motivate them through a system based around rewards.
Staff members hold regular meetings where an individual student’s concerns are raised and preventative strategies shared.
We look after our students from the moment they get on our school bus (or are dropped off) to the time they are dropped off at home (or are collected).
We aim to keep parents informed of their child and to keep the children in a safe and secure environment at all times.
We pledge to improve the above metrics to improve the quality of pastoral care delivered to our students.
Pledge 4: Quality of Parental Partnership
We work in partnership with parents and provide a wide spectrum of enrichment activities and support for our students and their parents.
Our elected body of parent representatives actively participate in school life. They promote greater parental involvement in their children's education.
Parents are also involved as partners in setting targets for their children.
We pledge to improve the metrics above to better the quality of parental partnership.
Pledge 5: Quality of Academic Rigour
Our students are regularly assessed formatively and summatively using in-school and 3rd Party Assessment Systems.
We assess, track and benchmark our students’ Attainment and Progress against the curriculum’s and relevant international criteria.
We report assessments results to parents a 5 times per year.
We track and analyze assessment data which informs our teaching and school improvement.
Our curriculum model is innovative and detailed. It reflects recent educational developments, such as Assessing Pupil Progress (APP), Assessment for Learning (AFL) and other strategies.
Our curriculum is regularly reviewed and enriched.
Targets are prominently displayed. We use self and peer assessment strategies for students to evaluate their work and enhance their learning.
We pledge to improve the metrics above to better the quality of academic rigour.
With first rate sports facilities and over 20 team sports and extracurricular activities that includes –football, swimming, rugby, tennis, basketball, dancing, ballet, drama, and acting to name a few – at a Fortes school, we provide a holistic education programme that develops self-confidence, character, teamwork, sportsmanship, excellence, and cultural understanding.
Our sports and other extracurricular activities make room for athletes – who have a serious interest in a sport or a particular activity – as well as beginners. With a wide variety of teams and a variety of playing levels, all Fortes students participate in sports.
Students discover their unique interests and passion. They learn to strive for excellence and push their limits. They learn teamwork skills and sportsmanship working with their peers, and recognizing and appreciating the cultural differences while working towards common goals. And students develop their leadership skills and character through real life competitive contexts that are fun and enjoyable.
In addition to having our own team of highly qualified and motivated Physical Education teachers and instructors who have gone on to lead our teams to win several leagues in various sports such as football, Fortes also partners with leading external sports providers like Active Sports, www.activeuae.com, so that our students have access to wider range of extracurricular activities.
Society is progressing from the “Information Age” where information quantity was power to the “Knowledge Age” where information-processing skills (research, abstraction, processing and synthesis) are required to sift through the vast amounts of information now available to us through the Internet, ebooks and media.
By providing state-of-the-art technological facilities (students have access to computers in every class, interactive whiteboards, various educational and multimedia software, a digital library, printers, scanners, digital and video cameras, and the internet); embedding the latest technology, productivity, education software and social media tools; and training our faculty, students and parents in how to use the software and technology, we aim to develop in our students:
Capability, knowledge and understanding of IT and computers and to use them for practical application in student work.
Skills to work with both hardware and software.
Problem solving, communication, and recording skills.
Fortes Education is dedicated to promoting positive change in the communities our schools are part of as well as the lives of those who are most in need by the volunteer efforts of our students, parents and teachers, and by fundraising and providing financial assistance.
Fortes is committed to inspiring students to become responsible and caring citizens by encouraging the values of giving and sharing. We encourage our students to become involved in community service so they better appreciate the realities of life beyond the walls of a school and also develop compassion for those less fortunate. We also encourage parents and professionals to share with our students their expertise, knowledge and time and play a part as role models of good citizenship. A Fortes school has an active parent body that regularly holds events at the school to raise funds towards various charitable initiatives.
The cultural diversity of our parents and their children is one of Fortes’ greatest assets. Like students, parents bring with them their own cultures and interests, and aspirations for their children. At a Fortes school, we involve our parents in their child’s education and bring to bear the knowledge of their culture into our school’s curriculum and the students’ learning. Parents participate with their children as the students learn about, celebrate and appreciate the of their peers. Parents also socialize and get to know other parents thereby building strong links in the parent community of a Fortes school.
