Jordan Times
Friday, April 2, 2004
Principal for International Academy/Amman
appointed
AMMAN (JT) — The International Academy/Amman
(IAA) on Thursday announced the appointment of John Scarth as its first
principal, as the school prepares to open its doors to students as of the new
scholastic year in September 2004.
School administrators say the facility aims to set a standard of excellence for
the education of future leaders and will adopt the national curriculum of
England and Wales as the basis of the education offered, along with Arabic and
religious studies.
The IAA features a holistic and innovative approach to primary education. Its
philosophy strives to instill values of academic excellence, leadership
development and an ethos of global citizenship in the children of tomorrow. It
will also blend Arab traditions of respect for scholarship with innovation and
technology.
“I am honoured and delighted to be appointed to the International Academy/Amman.
The school places children's learning at the very heart of the school and offers
a wonderful combination of excellent teaching of Arabic and religious studies
with a high quality international education based on the British national
curriculum,” Scarth said.
“This is a very special project, one that shall develop confident children who
have a love of learning and who are prepared, through an exciting school
curriculum and through a wide range of extracurricular activities, to be leaders
of their generation,” he added.
Scarth is currently the principal of the British School in Muscat, Oman, where
he is responsible for over 700 students from over 50 nationalities. He has held
several senior academic positions, including research fellow at the Open
University in England, where he helped develop the MA in Education programme and
taught the classroom studies module for ten years. Scarth was founder of the
Milton Keynes Arts Forum, an organisation that sought to develop and improve
arts education in schools. His doctorate focused on the impact of different
examination systems on teaching.