A Brief Information
About Us
About School
“Daratassalam International, Delhi Public School”, is one of the best dynamic and progressive educational institutions in the entire KSA. It offers a broad range of academic programmes with a strong emphasis on English Communication, Mathematics, Art and Sciences. Most of the students outshine bringing laurels to the school for their public speaking skills, both premeditative and impromptu speeches.
It seeks to engage students in the learning and teaching process and encourages developing an optimistic persona, and imposes individual and collective responsibility.
It also offers a wide range of co-curricular activities with scholastic and holistic perspectives. Every student’s artistic, creative, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, and physical potential is developed with the ratio of twenty students per teacher in the air-conditioned classrooms.
Our primary aim is to spread qualitative education while achieving academic excellence.
“Service before Self”
Our Objective
Daratassalam International, Delhi Public School, Riyadh aims at providing quality education to its students. Our primary aim is to develop in the student qualities of integrity, honesty, trust, tolerance and compassion; to promote a spirit of enquiry; to foster a scientific temper within the bonds of humanism; to help the student to become a meaningful part of his environment and to see that courage and industry have their due reward. The pursuit of excellence encouraged at our school rests on the positive belief that every man has it in him to produce work, the quality of which can be described as first class.
Towards this end the school endeavors to provide large and dedicated teaching staff with a wide range of skills and interests, a varied and wide choice of activities academic, aesthetic and athletic, an environment enriched with the excitement of discovery, challenge and competitiveness, and discipline based on the belief that responsibility comes before freedom.
DPS Society
“Delhi Public Schools”, with the motto “Service Before Self”, have been serving the Society in the field of education for the last 56 years. There are presently as many as 130 schools under its aegis, both in and outside India. The growing number of schools under this organizational umbrella signifies how the need to provide meaningful education, to a large number of children, desirous of growing into educated & liberated human beings, has been fulfilled. Founded and managed by distinguished members and luminaries of society, culled from the various walks of life, the organization has always guided its member schools on the path of progress with their visionary approach & lofty ideas.
Faculty and Staff
The faculty of Daratassalam International, Delhi Public School, Riyadh shapes its special character. Each faculty member is both a teacher and a scholar, an expert in his or her own field. The faculty of our, Riyadh consists of 200 full time highly qualified teachers, who have extensive teaching experience in their respective fields.
Appointment of the teaching faculty is made by a selection committee nominated by the Management of the school which selects the staffs after undergoing an exhaustive procedure as per the standards of the requirement laid down by the society. In addition to the 50% of the staffs which are residential (brought from India) the school also appoints local staff members who are well qualified and experienced after a proper demonstration of their teaching skills. Presently the school has a strength of 200 teaching staff members.
Each staff member also imbibes the best culture and ethos, which is the thread that binds the entire teaching fraternity. This academic community not only imparts instruction through the regular teaching periods, but it also engages students in a variety of other ways, whether it is to conduct the morning assembly, bring out school publications, arrange and participate in cultural shows, or just simply arrange visits.
In fact, all teachers also share membership with students on various committees, school houses, and supervise individual or small-group research projects. The opportunities for formal and informal relationships with the DPS faculty are plentiful and rewarding, resulting in lifelong friendships as well as professional mentorship that shape students’ lives and careers.
School Affiliations & Licenses
The Central Board of Secondary Education, Shiksha Kendra, Community Centre, Preet Vihar, New Delhi
Affiliation No: 5730015
The school is licensed by the Ministry of Education Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
License No: 142
Messages From Our Management
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Quayid
Chairman
We aim not to just impart knowledge to the students, but also to inculcate in them – wisdom, compassion and a humanitarian spirit. We believe that every child has the right to study in a calm, orderly, safe and secure environment. We value every child and provide them a stimulating and enriching environment so that the children can enjoy and understand all aspects of their learning.
We, at Daratassalam International, Delhi Public School, Riyadh have strived hard and would continue to do so to propagate our age-old theory towards imparting quality education to our learners.
We can proudly say that our learners are equipped with the best understanding and excellent techniques – be it in academics or co-curricular. We look forward to seeing the best of our student’s achievements across all spheres of learning. And I firmly believe that our students will always march ahead having clarity of mind.
Dr. Nadeem Tarin
Chairman, Managing Committee
Our school’s objective is to continue being recognized as a torchbearer of leading education methods and an institution that has students defining a future not only for them but for the world as well. The values, environment, and investment we put into our children today will help them achieve greater heights and create the unimaginable. My sincere thanks to the school’s principal, teachers, and other staff members without whom these successes- big and small is not possible. They not only teach the children the subjects but also inculcate values of commitment, zealousness, and pride in everything they do.
Mr. Mairaj Mohd Khan
Principal
To me, the very purpose of quality education is character building. Children are malleable material who can be shaped into persons of excellence by their teachers. As responsible teachers, we have to be exemplary to our students if we want them to be assets to the society and the nation. I feel it is important for every child to enjoy a sense of achievement. Every child should be encouraged to perform to the fullest ability and due importance should be given to learning in areas beyond academics. An institution should be a living place that shapes children’s lives and builds their character. Therefore to assess the school’s performance only by its high academic scores is not sufficient, it is equally important for a school to be a place for happy children with a love for learning and sound value system. To achieve these objectives we need to work jointly with the parents of our pupils to create a climate for open exchange of views and experiences, supporting each other quest for quality on all fronts.