About Our School
Babylon Academy was established in 2005. Its aim was to teach the Arabic language and to promote culturally related activities for children aged 4 to 17 years from different ethnic groups. Three years on, the school had expanded to approximately 250 students, covering educational levels from Nursery through to GCSE and A-Levels.
Students come from different areas of London, covering a wide range of social and faith backgrounds, forming a well-ordered and pleasant community.
We aim to encourage children and families to better integrate their origins with British culture and to contribute positively to this multicultural society.
The school has quickly become a selective school and has built a strong reputation within the community. The number of students is continuously rising, in line with the growing population of ethnic-minority groups who become acquainted with our school and with the quality of its teaching and after-school activities.
The school is managed by an experienced management body and a group of qualified, native Arabic-speaking teachers who are multilingual. This enables them to communicate with students in their mother tongue in addition to English, as well as in other languages such as French.
Our school staff uphold a high level of experience in the Arabic language and in all related cultural matters.
They have devoted their time and efforts to serving their community and to helping their children retain their mother-tongue language and positively relate their ethnic background to British culture. They show a very high level of commitment to students' educational and personal development, using their knowledge and understanding of teaching, learning and behaviour-management strategies to enable all learners to achieve their potential. They demonstrate a strong ability to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching and to monitor the progress of students' learning, with the aim of raising levels of attainment.
There is an effective training programme in place to develop our staff's ability to prepare effective lesson plans and to use a variety of teaching methods and a range of approaches to assess learning, including the importance of formative assessment and its requirements and arrangements for the subjects of the curriculum.
As part of our school's continuous professional development, all teachers are guided to design effective learning sequences within lessons and across a series of lessons, demonstrating secure subject and curriculum knowledge.
All staff members work together as an integrated team to share the development of effective practice, to ensure that everyone is appropriately involved in enhancing learning, and to ensure that they fully understand the roles they are expected to fulfil.
