School Name: The New Filipino Private School

Zone: Sharjah

Focus Areas
Initial School Self Evaluation Checklist
In preparation for evaluation, you should consider the focus areas and how well your school performs in each one. Complete the table below, by
placing your school in one of three categories for each key element. Refer to the Evaluation Framework, the Focus Area Descriptors and the
Guidance Statements to help you. Note the evidence you can provide for your judgement.
Focus Area

A strength

Partly implemented

A key area for development

1. The leadership of the school

Clarity of vision and purpose
Commitment of owner
Organizational efficiency
Learning environment
1.1 Planning for improvement

OBJ:
Closely monitor and
school performances
-

1.2 Management of staff &

resources

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supervise

Evaluate
and
improve
schools performance
Faculty & Staff Meeting Evaluation
of
School
Practices
Monthly Faculty Meeting

OBJ:
- Hire competent and qualified
Staff
- Purchase additional resources to
improve the quality of teaching
and learning
- Encourage to pursue higher
education / training to improve

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Zone: Sharjah

the quality of service to the

community
- Provide orientation on the duties
and responsibilities of the staff
- Practice professionalism in
dealing with the members of the
school community

- Hire additional staff in the

Guidance Office and Learning
Resource Center (LRC)
- Monitor teacher and staff turnover
- Purchase additional resources
- Plan to transfer to a bigger school
building
- Upgrade salary scale
- Encourage teachers to pursue
graduate studies / specialization
- Orient new staff
- Practice shared leadership
- Faculty & Staff Meeting Orientation / Organizational
Structure & Provision of
Resources
- Preparations for Class Opening

Focus Area
2. The school as a community

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A strength

Partly implemented

A key area for development

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Zone: Sharjah

2.1 The quality of relationships in the

school

- OBJ:
- Maintain and strengthen

harmonious relationship among

parents, students, teachers/staff
& government agencies
- Maintain an open line of
communication

- Provide team building activities

for students & teachers/staff

- Conduct quarterly teacher-parent

conference

- Implement the use of

appointment slip for teacherparent meeting
- Faculty & Staff Meeting - Better
Provision for Guidance and
Welfare of Students & Staff
- Faculty & Staff Team Building
Activity
2.2 The involvement of parents and OBJ:
the local community in the life of the Strengthen linkages among the
school
members of the school and the
community

- Tap alumni as speakers in

culminating programs &
graduation ceremonies
- Strengthen parents participation
during school activities
- Tap professional parents to serve
as career talk speakers
- Homeroom-Parents Orientation
- Faculty & Staff Meeting - Active
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School Name: The New Filipino Private School

Zone: Sharjah

Parents' Involvement

- Parents-Teachers Association
Meeting & Election of
Officers

- Thanksgiving Celebration & Family

Day

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Zone: Sharjah

Focus Area

A strength

Partly implemented

A key area for

development

3. The schools approach to student learning

3.1 Meeting individual and group needs

OBJ:

- Keep abreast with new curricular

offerings
- Provide assistance to students with
learning difficulties, behavioral
problems and exceptional learning
abilities
- Implement the K+12 program for
Grades 3 and 9
- Provide more remediation and
enrichment activities
- Practice independent / cooperative
learning styles
- Faculty & Staff Meeting - Resource
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Provision & Delivery of Curriculum

Quarterly Teachers' Level Area
Articulation

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3.2 Providing
experience

a balanced

learning

OBJ:

Provide activities that will develop

leadership, social awareness and
physical well-being
- Ladderize educational trips
- Provide leadership training
- Maximize involvement in extracurricular activities
- Faculty & Staff Meeting - Extra-

Curricular & Enrichment Activities /

Assignment of Coaches & Club
Moderators
Science Department Meeting Science Month Celebration
Tree Planting

- Science Exhibits / Poster/Collage

-

Making / Letter & Poem Writing /

Jingle Composition Contest
K1 & K2 Educational Trip to Sharjah
Aquarium & Dolphinarium
Social Studies Department Meeting

- Recruitment of Varsity Players /

Enrolment of Club Members

- G1 Educational Trip to Discovery

Center

- G2 Educational Trip to Children's City

- Social Studies Program - United

Nations Day Celebration, Battle of

the Brains & Native Games
- Language Department / Coaches &
Club Moderators Meeting
G4-G10 Educational Trip to Book Fair
Induction of Student Council & PTA
Officers / Scouts Investiture
Language Month Program - Essay/Poem
Writing Contest, Spelling Bee, Story

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Telling Contest, Film Viewing, Debate,

Impromptu Speech, Puppet Show
Talent Show
Community Clean Up Campaign
Coaches & Club Moderators Meeting
G3 Educational Trip to Science Museum
G4 Educational Trip to Arabian Wildlife
Filipino Inter-School Sports Tournament
(FISAA)
Foundation Anniversary Celebration &
Intramurals Day
Scouts Camping
Mathematics Department Meeting
G5 Educational Trip to Sharjah Heritage
Museum (Boys & Girls on separate days)
G6 Educational Trip to Sharjah Art
Museum (Boys & Girls on separate days)
Math Olympiad, DaMath & Sudoku
Activities
MAPEH Department / 3rd Coaches &
Club Moderators Meeting
Academic Contest
Art & Cultural Exhibits / Recital
G7 Educational Trip to Archaeological
Museum (Boys & Girls on separate days)
G8 Educational Trip to Mahatta Museum
(Boys & Girls on separate days)
NFPS Film Festival & Club Day

Focus Area

A strength

Partly implemented

A key area for

development

4: The classroom climate

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Zone: Sharjah

4.1 Quality of learning

OBJ:

Develop critical and analytical skills

- Intensify making of investigatory
projects
- Intensify classroom-based
researches

Faculty & Staff Meeting - Students'

Engagement in Learning
Remediation
Planned Class Observation by Senior
Teachers

4.2 Quality of teaching

OBJ:

- Acquire new knowledge in:

a. Art of Questioning
b. Values Integration
c. Teaching Strategies
- Improve oral and written skills
- Enrich the instructional materials
- Conduct seminar-workshops for
teachers
- Conduct regular articulation
- Use diagnostic drill cards, Science
Research Associates (SRA) kits,
Dolch basic sight words and MITA
Faculty & Staff Meeting - Teachers'
Development
Faculty Seminar-Workshops
- Quarterly Teachers' Subject Area
Articulation
Planned Class Observation by Senior
Teachers
Preparation of Instructional Materials

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4.3 Classroom management

OBJ:

- Acquire new skills in classroom

management
- Reinforce rules and expectations in
the classroom
- Conduct seminar-workshop
- Read more professional books
- Maximize teaching time

Faculty & Staff Meeting - Learning

Environment & Classroom Procedures
Launching of
Clean and Green
Campaign
Planned Classroom Observation by
Senior Teachers

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Focus Area
5. Students personal development
5.1 Student attitudes and behaviour

A strength

Partly implemented

A key area for

development

OBJ:

- Upgrade the guidance and

counseling services
- Intensify the monitoring of
attendance and punctuality
- Strengthen value integration in the
lessons
- Hire a qualified and competent
guidance counselor
- Maintain anecdotal records
- Implement rules and regulations
consistently
- Post positive behavioral guides in
the form of charts and signages

Faculty & Staff Meeting - School Rules &

Expectations
Students Orientation - TNFPS Guidelines
on Students' Behavior
Election of Class Officers
Career Assessment & Orientation
Leadership Training Program
Analysis of Behavioral Records by
Guidance Counselor
Evaluation Report on Analysis of
Behavioral Records to School Leaders

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5.2 Students awareness of the UAEs

culture & identity

OBJ:

- Strengthen the appreciation of the

UAE culture
- Deepen respect for UAEs customs
& traditions
- Celebrate UAE National Day
- Put up exhibits about UAE culture
- Display pictures of Rulers of UAE
- Include the following in the
students daily planner:
a. Trivia, exercises & pictures
of cultural landmarks in
UAE
- Pictures of the seven Rulers of
UAE
- Faculty & Staff Meeting - UAE

Celebrations
Students Orientation - Singing of
National Anthem and Celebrations
Film Viewing about UAE
G4-G10 Educational Trip to Book Fair
UAE National Day Celebration

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Focus Area
6: Students attainment & progress
6.1 How well students] have performed
in recent years in tests, examinations
and other assessments

A strength

Partly implemented

A key area for

development

OBJ:

- Improve the diagnostic and

achievement test in terms of
continuity and progression
- Set a target of 10% increase in the
students attainment in national
and international exams
- Evaluate test results and improve
mastery of the specified content
domain

Faculty & Staff Meeting - Relevance of

National & International Exams / Target
Setting
Analysis of Attainment Data
Analyses of Assessment Results from
2011-2014
Analyses of Assessment Results:
Planning for Improvement
University of Sto. Tomas Career Talk &
College Entrance Test
Evaluation of Exams / Analysis of Test
Data
Adamson University Career Talk &
College Entrance Test
Evaluation of Exams / Analysis of Test
Data
Evaluation of Exams / Analysis of Test
Data

- Recognition &
Commencement Exercises

Evaluation of Exams / Analysis of Test

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Data

6.2 Current students progress in

acquiring the knowledge,
understanding and skills that prepare
them for the next stage in their
education

OBJ:

- Set a target of 10% increase in the

results of quarterly exams
- Improve the percentage rating in
the quarterly exams indicating the
acquired KnowledgeProcess/Skills-Understanding
- Provide more exercises to improve
their mastery
- Conduct test item analysis for each
quarter
Faculty & Staff Meeting - Analysis of
Quarterly Exams / Evaluation of Results
from Previous Year
Distribution of Progress Report

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