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Founded originally in 1983, in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg, and named after its patron, our King Khalid Islamic College became the first full-time Islamic School in Australia. A commitment to excellence has seen the Academy experience phenomenal growth since then. Our school now boasts three campuses in Melbourne, two campuses in Sydney, and an international campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE. While we are not a selective school, all our campuses promote academic and spiritual life's highest achievement. Our curriculum provides children with a strong sense of community and values by incorporating the International Baccalaureate program and religious studies. We aim to provide quality education in a caring and supportive Islamic faith environment. We encourage our students to aim for personal excellence and develop independent learning and critical thinking skills. We utilize a variety of programs to promote self-esteem, self-discipline, responsibility, and leadership. We aim to foster in our graduates an awareness of interdependence as members of a multicultural community and the world and develop a sense of service and a commitment to act with justice and compassion. At the Australian International Academy (Sydney campus), Primary School students are pivotal to the teaching and learning program. They are perceived holistically, considering their social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. They can become internationally-minded people who engage in world issues and take on constructive action where necessary. Our primary school curriculum has coverage of the NSW Board of Studies requirements and International Baccalaureate – Primary Years Programme's pedagogy. The teaching and learning curriculum is a concept-driven, inquiry-based program that recognizes students as lifelong learners that require purposeful, authentic, challenging, and in-depth learning. Teachers facilitate students' learning through a differentiated program that considers different learning styles, abilities, and interests. We do this by offering students opportunities to work in exclusive supported programs, one-on-one learning experiences, hands-on, open-ended learning, group work, and discussions through these programs. Students benefit from building their research, communication, social, self-management, and thinking skills. As a faith-based school, all our students need to develop a sound knowledge of the Islamic Faith. We promote the development of a student's emotional, social, and spiritual wellbeing. Integral to this is for students to build positive relationships with people of different races, cultures, languages, genders, social backgrounds and demonstrate love and respect to natural environments and its connection with the universe we live in. In Islamic Studies, students are continually developing self-reflective and critical thinking skills to be responsible citizens. They use the beliefs and practices of the Islamic faith to inform their behavior and actions by drawing from the Holy Quran's wisdom and the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) – as a basis of knowledge, actions, and values. We believe this will guide Muslim students to be good Muslim Australian citizens. Our school is also committed to nurturing the mother-tongue and supporting students to become multilingual. We believe that multilingualism is an internationally-minded person trait, which helps them participate in academically at school and in their social lives. It provides an intellectual framework to support conceptual development and critical thinking skills and support students to embrace diversity and difference by having access to various perspectives across the globe. Our school provides Arabic lessons that enable students to develop communication skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing to express themselves and understand others in Arabic effectively. In the Primary Department, it is integral that we build student capacity as life- long learners through instilling values and attitudes that enable students to be effective communicators, open-minded in their interactions, confident in themselves, independent as well as collaborative learners, creative and critical thinkers when analyzing, problem-solving and evaluating. Our academic curriculum for the Senior School is designed to give our students a broad and well-rounded education while allowing them maximum opportunity to develop their interests and strengths through their chosen fields of specialist study. Record of School Achievement (RoSA) – Board of Studies endorsed courses for Year 7 to Year 10 Middle Years Programme (MYP) – IBO endorsed courses for Year 6 to Year 10 Higher School Certificate (HSC) – Board of Studies endorsed courses for Years 11 & 12. IB Diploma Programme – IBO endorsed courses for Years 11 & 12 View full school