Leadership and Administration

A. Leadership and Management

(i) Composition: The leadership and management teams in Al Ajbaan School form two
groups:

- The Senior Management Team (SMT); comprised of Principal Mr. Abdul-

Rahman Al Menhali, Vice Principal Mr. Hassan Al Hamadi, Senior Social Worker
Mr. Abdul-Rahman Salim and Senior Teacher Mr. Muhammed Musa.
- The Middle Management Team (MM); comprised of Heads of Department (see
list for a ‘who’s who’).

(ii) Roles and Responsibilities: The SMT has the charge of leading the whole-school
towards its ‘vision’; which is to provide a values-based education that will serve
students now and in the future.

The SMT is responsible for deciding whole-school policies, and to monitor them, in
order for the school to function well at all times.

The SMT aims to meet in part or as a whole twice per week, to discuss the
operational and strategic progress of the school. It involves the MM weekly also in
whole-school policy formulation. The SMT believes in ‘distributive leadership’, and
encourages responsibility amongst all members of staff. Most members of staff have
additional responsibilities (e.g. for finance, data entry, photography, displays etc).

In the temporary absence of either the Principal or Vice Principal, the role of
managing the school lies with the Senior Social Worker and / or Senior Teacher.

The MM (HoDs) meets with the Principal and / or Vice Principal, and Senior Social
Worker every Monday during lesson 3 to discuss recent developments and plans.
This meeting is ‘minuted’. Subsequent to the meeting, HoDs are encouraged to
adapt the agenda for their own department meetings.

B. Administration
The school currently employs Secretary Mr. Fathmi Sultan, Administration Assistant Mr.
Muhammed Aly, and Watchman Mr. Muhammed Abbas. Their tasks are varied and include
school communications, resource ordering, photocopying, store management, maintenance,
supervision of the cleaning staff, record keeping, greeting parents and security.

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