Acorns Internaitonal School (AIS) provides a caring and nurturing educational environment, within an international setting, where all the members of the community feel safe, protected, loved, supported, encouraged and empowered in their personalised learning journey. And Policies document is one such practice the helps school establish rules and procedures in order to function effectively and ensure everyone is connected. Schools are highly complex and create standards of quality for learning and safety, as well as expectations and accountability.
We revise policies every two years. Below are the encapsulations (smaller version) of all the policies in alphabetical order, the detailed (longer versions) are published on our website www.ais.ac.ug, under Policies Section. Please do not hesitate to contact the AIS teaching staff or Senior Management Leadership Team member, if you need a hard copy of the detailed version or any further clarification. The following Policies encapsulations are made available below:
With a capacity to accommodate almost 700 people and a stage that can accommodate about 40 students at a time, our auditorium is the core of all our performances.
Our afters-school clubs are an excellent avenue to filter your passions from purview. We try to offer as many avenues for exploration, such as Kickboxing, Pottery, Ballet, Skating, Robotics, Cricket, Badminton, Chess, Swimming and Soccer.
At AIS, we take pride in ensuring the safety of our students. At the end of every school day, our students are moved to a supervised daycare, until they are picked by their parents or authorised caretakers.
In order to support technological literacy, the AIS campus offers three fully-equipped computer lab in:
- Early Childhood Department
- Primary Department and
- Secondary Department
Each provides WiFi throughout the campus, which is accessible to all students and teachers.
AIS has three separate fully-equipped library facilities with books, computers, smart boards and WiFi connections in:
- Childhood Department
- Primary Department and
- Secondary Department
In the words of our MYP students, the lounge “gives them an opportunity to be themselves, and show the world who they truly are.”
Fully-equipped, State-of-the-art:
- Dance room
- Music room
- Drama facility
AIS provides excellent facilities for its students to train:
- Two fully shaded and equipped playing fields separate for younger and older students
- A full size Soccer pitch
- A Cricket pitch
- 2 Basketball courts
- Two Swimming Pools – one for Early Childhood Department and a 25M pool for Primary and upwards
- An indoor multi-purpose sports facility for badminton, volleyball and table tennis
A spacious and well-equipped space, our Science Lab is designed according to safety guidelines, to cater to the magnanimity of experiments and practical assessments that our students enjoy during the day.
Our students have access to a full-equipped sickbay during school hours, where our experienced and qualified school nurse administers first aid and/or prescribed medication.
All the Classrooms are fully-equipped with smart board providing WiFi connections
The AIS Visual Arts Department has two separate art studios perfect for our budding artists: one for the Primary Department and another for the Secondary Department.
