Name of School: Jeel Al-Amal Primary School

Year of Establishment: 1972

Name of Principal: Rana Faroun

Telefax #: 02-2798550

Email: jeelalamal@live .com 

Address: Jerusalem- Bethany- near Al-Aytam Islamic Industrial School

Number of Students: 170

Number of Teachers: 11

Number of Classrooms: 7

Educational Stages: from 1st Grade to 6th Grade.

A dormitory is available in the school, with a current number of 72 boys.

Brief:

The association was founded in 1972 in a rented building in Bethany, with a vfew number of children. Caused by the difficult economical and social circumstances in Palestine, the number of children doubled and so the association had to buy a land and build the current building they have to provide the children with a real homely feeling.

The school is private, for both boys and girls. Its building consists of 3 floors, with an area of 600 sq.m per floor, with a basement that is used as an internal activities hall. The building has a library, a hall, a science laboratory, a computer lab, a music room, a thearte room, a free-activities room, bathroom units, a playground, a yard, a canteen, the administration and secretary rooms, and the teachers' room. 

Future Needs:

Infrastructure:

• Construct a new 4th floor.
• Provide a cover for the yard, where the student line up.
• Rehabilitate the sports hall and its main door.
• Maintenance for the internal and external drinking fountains.
• Rehabilitation of the back yard (behind the kitchen) and installing the gas and diesel tanks underground.
• Maintainance of the dormitory floors and the living rooms there.
• Replacing the existing windows and ground tiles in the school building.

Devices & Appliances:

• Electrical bell for the main door.
• Electronic bell for class timing.
• 4 microphones.
• 1 printer for the administration and another for the teachers, and 1 fax machine.
• 3 split unit conditions: for the computer lab, the library, and the sports hall.
• 10 "Net Kitabi" devices for the teachers.
• 2 laptops.
• 2 computers.
• 2 projectors.
• 1 mobile sound system.
• 3 drinking fountain coolers.
• 1 recorder.
• Educational toys for students with learning difficulties.

Furniture:

• Shleves for the canteen.
• External seats for the students in the playground.
• Curtain shutters: for the theatre, the classrooms, and the administration.
• Fixed garbage baskets for the yards and playground.
• Flag pole.

Programs:

• First aid course.
• Training on how to use interactive boards.
• Handcraft and arts course.
• Drama employment in education.
• Awareness sessions with parents regarding Children's rights.