Manaret Heliopolis International School

Welcome current and potential members of the MHIS Community, Our outstanding community is supported in this mission by world-class human and technological resources, as well as a beautiful campus. Our teaching staff are truly inspiring; despite the risks and challenges they face every day they are unfailing in their duty to our students and dedicate themselves to the learning of every student who enters our doors. Our technological resources – app-based learning platforms meant to strengthen the home-to-school connection – offer our community the tools needed to ensure that parents are kept up to date and supported in their child’s learning. Our campus is colorful, warm, and inviting, reminding our students that it is their home-away-from-home; a place where they are welcome, loved, and safe to learn.

Our school’s growth continues with the major milestone of this year adding a Diploma Program. This will complete our claim of being one of only a small handful of schools in Egypt which offer the true IB continuum: from their first to last years in school, MHIS students will be able to benefit from all of the best that the IB system has to offer. We have expanded into a wealth of new internal programs as well, opening a Special Education Needs department which is already showing outstanding results in support of our inclusive learning policy.

As part of our STEM development initiative, we have also begun offering coding as an integrated part of our curriculum, which will help all of our students develop the essential skills needed to succeed in their technologically-centered future. We are proud to note that this approach also keeps us at the forefront of STEM education in Egypt.

Furthermore, our school has balanced its forward-looking program development with an insistence on the quality of our Arabic language program. This year, we won a prestigious award given to only five schools in all of Egypt for the outstanding quality of our Arabic reading program. As part of the award, we received a generous grant which we will be applying to our existing charitable and community service programing in support of literacy for local orphanages and less-privileged schools. We have already begun building a library in a nearby orphanage and the community projects work of the MYP has ensured that it will be well stocked with an outstanding range of Arabic-language texts to support literacy in our community.

Our Vision
Our Vision is to be the inspiration for positive change for our whole community by offering an equal opportunity to all learners to choose to be the best they can be, and to empower them to use their voices to help improve the lives of others, both locally and in the wider world.

Our Mission
Our Mission is to always put our learners at the centre of our decisions as we build a safe, open-minded and engaging learning environment which is dedicated to academic excellence through best-practice and to student well-being through gender equality, differentiation, self-reflection, social awareness, civic responsibility, knowledge, and personal growth.

Our Beliefs
Students learn best in a community where academic disciplines are integrated, fostering an appreciation of how they interact and form a whole.

Our Approach
Our approach to the structure of each day is based on key concepts rather than time. In a traditional school the day is divided into minutes by subject with little if any connection. At our school connections are at the heart of each day – the more, the better.