Dome International School

 Dome International School was established in 2016 for the purpose of offering an exceptional American educational program for students in Preschool through Grade Twelve. DIS follows an enriched American Curriculum taught by qualified staff. The school campus extends over 17000 square meters and includes spacious air conditioned classrooms, Science labs, Computer labs, Music and Art rooms, a joyful KG playground and multiple sports courts. The school is licensed by the Ministry of Education and accredited by Cognia. 

Creating a supportive environment:
● A caring, culturally responsive learning community, where students are well-known and valued and can learn in physical and emotional safety.
● Structures that allow for continuity in relationships, consistency in practices, and predictability in routines that reduce anxiety and support engaged learning.
● Relational trust and respect between and among staff, students, and parents.

Developing productive and innovative instructional strategies:
● Meaningful work that builds on students’ prior knowledge and experiences and actively engages them in rich, engaging tasks that help them achieve conceptual understanding and transferable knowledge and skills.
● Inquiry as a major learning strategy, thoughtfully interwoven with explicit instruction and well-scaffolded opportunities to practice and apply learning.
● Well-designed collaborative learning opportunities that encourage students to question, explain, and elaborate their thoughts and co-construct solutions.
● Ongoing diagnostic assessments and opportunities to receive timely and helpful feedback, develop and exhibit competence, and revise work to improve.
● Opportunities to develop metacognitive skills through planning and management of complex tasks, self- and peer- assessment, and reflection on learning.

Providing social and emotional learning opportunities:
● Explicit instruction in social, emotional, and cognitive skills, such as intrapersonal awareness, interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, and good decision making.
● Infusion of opportunities to learn and use social-emotional skills, habits, mindsets throughout all aspects of the school’s work in and outside of the classroom.
● Educative and restorative approaches to classroom management and discipline, so that children learn responsibility for themselves and their community.

Designing students’ support systems:
● Access to integrated services (including physical and mental health and social service supports) that enable children’s healthy development.
● Extended learning opportunities that nurture positive relationships, support enrichment and mastery learning, and close achievement gaps.
● Multi-tiered systems of support to address learning barriers both in and out of the classroom based on a shared developmental framework uniting a capable and stable staff with families and support providers. 

Applications open in December and continue until the numbers are complete
Acceptance age for the nursery stage is 3 years and 6 months on October 1st
Acceptance age for the preparatory stage is 2 years and 6 months on October 1st
Class density consists of 24 students