Well-being

GIS is well-known for its holistic approach to education. We have a reputation for our student care, and we know that students' happiness and academic success are intertwined. Our success in creating a positive and supportive environment has been recognised by the KHDA who gave us a ‘Very High’ rating in well-being provision for students and staff.

Positive Education Enhanced Curriculum

Personal, Social, Health, and Economic Education Curriculum

PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health, and Economic Education. It is a comprehensive curriculum framework used in our school to provide students with essential knowledge and skills related to various aspects of their personal development, well-being, and life skills. Its aim is to help students develop a strong sense of self-awareness, emotional resilience, and the ability to make informed decisions that positively impact their lives and contribute to society.

Pastoral Care

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Counselling

Our school counsellor works with all new students to ensure a successful transition into GIS, as well as with those students who need additional support from time to time. All students have access to a wide range of services from the counselling department at GIS, including both individual and group counselling sessions. By offering a thorough school counselling programme that values and respects each student's uniqueness and respects differences, GIS ensures that all students are encouraged and motivated to reach their full potential.

This programme nurtures students to better meet their educational, academic, career, emotional, and social needs. The ultimate goal is to assist students in discovering their passions and skills, as well as to improve their dependability, productivity, self-expression, self-control, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills, among other competencies that will address any weaknesses in the students' abilities and help them develop into capable future leaders.

Restorative Practices

At GIS we believe that students need to be given the opportunity to develop their relationships; to maintain positive relationships and to learn strategies to help them repair and restore a relationship if harm has been caused. We use a Restorative Justice Approach across the school to ensure that this learning takes place.

Using a Restorative Justice base approach offers a way to create a school culture centered on caring relationships. As a response to behavioural issues or when harm has been caused, Restorative Justice promotes empathy, fosters inter-connectivity between staff and students, and encourages responsibility to repair harm. It is a philosophy, in action, that places relationships at the heart of the educational experience. The key focus is working ‘with’ students to develop authentic relationships where students have voice and agency in their learning experience.

Behavioral Support

At GIS we aim to create an environment where students can grow and flourish, ensuring that students learn in a supportive, caring, and safe environment. Through a process based on respect, students are instilled to take ownership of their behaviour.

Members of the school community know where they stand with regard to consideration for others, good manners and their many responsibilities to themselves and others. Grade level coordinators work with senior leadership to manage the pastoral care of our students. The school counsellor also works with students to support their social and emotional needs.