Learning methods in our Kindergarten:
Academics
Discover our curriculum and the learning opportunities we offer across all grade levels.
Student’s Academic System
The academy adopts the curricula and standards of the Ministry of Education for the subjects of Arabic language, Islamic studies, social studies, math, and science. It also provides an advanced program in teaching the computer subject and coding. The English language is taught according to high standards, focusing on extra-enriched materials in English. The program prepares students to sit for the Tawjihi Examinations.
The academy embraces the IGCSE program, which is based on the British educational system and is recognized and endorsed by Cambridge University and London University. It is the program implemented in British schools and in international schools worldwide in both the Literary and Scientific streams. IGCSE stands for International General Certificate for Secondary Education.
High Level academy students have the choice at 9th grade to continue in the American program and thus work towards earning the American High School Diploma (AHSD), which is a school-leaving qualification awarded upon high school graduation. The high school diploma is typically obtained after a course of study lasting four years, from grade 9 to grade 12, where the officially enrolled students in this program must satisfy certain requirements (credits and external exams) to obtain the certificate and the local equivalency. The school prepares students to take the External Academic Test for admission in Jordan, the United States, and worldwide.
Adopted Curriculum
The academy adopts the curriculum of the Ministry of Education for the Arabic language, Islamic Education, Sociology, Mathematics, and Science. It also offers an advanced computer program that combines basic computer science and programming systems, in addition to the English language curriculum that is adopted with high standards that would raise the level of our students in the English Language.
The academy adopts the curriculum of the Ministry of Education for Arabic Language, Islamic Education, and National Education, and adopts a special curriculum that meets the standards of the accredited program in English language, Science, Math, Social Studies, and Business.
The Kindergarten
At HLA kindergarten, we provide a safe, positive, nurturing environment that promotes social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth. HLA kindergarten curriculum is based on hands-on activities that let students’ minds grow and learn through experiences and the environments they are exposed to.
We develop happy, confident, and successful
learners.
In our kindergarten, we rely on activity-based learning and experience-building skills where the application of experience through activity and tasks is based on the latest pedagogical theories and regulations.
Lower Primary Stage
Grades 1-4
At these stages, we aim to develop the various basic skills represented by:
Language skills
Recognizing alphabet, giving students the skills of alphabet’s drawing and writing with a neat handwriting, guiding students to love reading and writing, getting students used to converse and express their images and drawings to release their existing language repertoire .
Numerical skills
Gaining the skills of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
Fine and gross motor skills
Fine and gross motor skills to enhance self-reliance.
Blessings of God
To introduce the student to the blessings of God and his grace on the student himself and his geographical and social environment, so as to improve the student’s relationship with those around him, and exploits God’s grace in creating plants and animals and many other blessings.
Rights and duties
Introducing students to their rights and duties according to their age and installing love of their country, parents, and the environment around them .
Learning and righteous
Guiding students to love learning and righteous deeds and preparing them for future.
Curriculum
Arabic Curricula
Islamic Education, Arabic Language, Mathematics, and Social Studies – The Ministry of Education curriculum
Note: fourth graders do not study Math in Arabic.
English Curricula
English, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
Enrichment Curricula
In Arabic Language:
Creative Reading Project, Quran recitation program.
In English Language:
Accelerated Reading.
Upper Primary Stage
Grades 5-12
The main targets we seek to achieve:
The student should be fully aware of the history of Islam, its principles, rituals, morals, and values, and reflect this in his behavior, while loving and cherishing his country and acting as a responsible citizen. He should apply the rules of proper social behavior and respect the traditions, customs, and values of his society. The student must also master both Arabic and English to use them easily and fluently, think scientifically through observation, data collection, organization, analysis, and inference, and base his judgments and decisions on this process. Additionally, he should be able to work with numerical systems, basic mathematical operations, and geometric shapes and apply them practically, as well as understand fundamental scientific facts and their experimental foundations to interpret natural phenomena.
The International Program
Grades KG2-6
Students will follow the standards of Cambridge Primary (CP), so they can be able to pass the External Exam CIPP at the end of the fifth grade. They will study the following:
Math, Science, English, Social Studies, and Information Technology in English.
Arabic Language and Islamic Education – in Arabic (as required by the Ministry of Education. )
Grades 7-8
Students will be prepared for the Checkpoint exam where the following basic courses will be given:
The Ministry’s curricula of Arabic and Islamic Education.
Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, and Computer Science.
Grade 10
In addition to the basic subjects of the IGCSE program, the students will study other courses like Business and Economics that go along with the requirements of The Ministry of Education to accredit the international certificate. At the end of the tenth grade, students will take the O-Level exams.
Grade 11-12
Students will be given the basic subjects selected according to the specialisation, which will qualify them to enter the various disciplines in universities inside and outside Jordan. By the end of these two stages, students will complete the As and A-level exams.
Counselling Department
Educational and psychological Counselling Department
The school environment is both physically and psychologically safe and healthy. The academy has fully qualified and experienced Counsellors in both Primary and Secondary. Counselling is done individually, in small groups, or through whole class presentations.
Counselling empowers students through the ongoing practice of important skills that will remain with them for years to come, aiding them through their adolescent years.
Programs adopted by the counseling department:
Life Skills Program
A developmental program targeting the students of the Academy from kindergarten through the ninth grade. It aims at developing the students’ self-abilities and communication skills and cultivating the values and customs that contribute to their future success.
School Paternity Program
Because we are a true family in our academy and because our students’ personal and academic development are our goals, the Academy has adopted a unique program for individual and intensive follow-up of students.
The program targets students from the seventh to the secondary stages. The parent teacher will be responsible for a group of students and report any concerns to the students’ affairs, which in turn contacts the counseling department, teachers, and parents for the benefit of the students.
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November 4, 2025
November 4, 2025