School Overview

École Ibn Batouta began as a pilot project in 2002-2003 and is running now in its more than fifteenth year. Students who started their education in the school are now in universities and colleges and have been successful in various disciplines. They have also shown great leadership and are successful leaders in the community. They are concrete evidence of the realization of the wishes and prayers of those who worked day and night to make a difference within our community as well as the larger Canadian and global community.

École Ibn Batouta enjoys an average of 15 teachers, and 3 administrators. Our teachers are qualified and professional. All our staff are dedicated to their work and strive to make a difference in their community and in the life of a Muslim student. The school has small class size and committed to keep a class size of 20 students or less.

Ecole Ibn Batouta believes in making youth education a factor of change and progress through offering them high moral and academic standards that will raise Canadian Muslim youth that will carry on to be productive & contributing members of society. Our mission is to enable and inspire a diverse student body to achieve academic excellence through critical thinking and innovation in order to make positive contribution to our world.

The Vision of the school is to provide students a unique opportunity to receive an education that emphasizes intellectual development, cross cultural understanding, and citizenship in a global society.

Provide students with francophone education from JK to Grade 12 pursuing the Ontario Curriculum

• Create an environment where there is a shared passion and enthusiasm for learning, teaching, achieving and being together.
• Appoint the best leaders, teachers and support staff who receive on-going professional development training
• Care about the learning needs and the personal development of individual students and staff and their entitlement to the best education possible
• Value everyone and expect them to exceed their current expectations; we should raise the bar for what can be achieved individually and collectively; we should broaden our educational opportunities and extend horizons.
• Work closely with our students’ families, other local schools, institutions and the wider community
• Get the basics right including literacy, numeracy, science and IT and ensure that standards improve
• Introduce the best new ideas that are helping to raise standards
• Guide the development of students into self confident young adults, who are risk takers ,caring and respectful and open minded
• To provide the buildings and facilities which will continue to improve the quality of experience for students and staff and our ability to provide teaching and learning that is geared to the 21st Century

• Maximize a campus culture in which all students can achieve their potential based on Islamic morals and principles, helping them develop understanding, skills, attitudes, and values essential for success in life and become responsible citizens
• Ensure optimum use of well – equipped classrooms, library, laboratories and IT facilities to impart personalized, self-learning and problem-solving instruction delivery
• Foster a safe environment for the faculty and students that is conducive to research and scholarly activities.
• Comply with International Standards in Examination System
• Maintain a lifelong relationship with alumni through opportunities that promote interaction and involvement with the School for the benefit of the community.
• Ensure all processes are synergistic, effective and directed towards continuous improvement, by achieving the goals and objectives of the Units of the School

Wondering what makes our school unique? The school enjoys a uniqueness that no other school in Ottawa offers. The main features of this uniqueness are as follows:

• It presents the Ontario Curriculum in both official languages (French and English)
• It serves the growing Islamic community in Ottawa and teaches Islamic studies and Arabic
• It presents skills and teaching methodologies that is second to none as it adopts more easily to its environment.

It builds student character that respects universal values.

• Bilingual French / English
• Arabic and Islamic Studies
• Qualified personnel are incumbent dedicated Parents
• Universal Values
• Workshops
• Leadership programs for youth

• A team of highly professional and dedicated teachers to inspire a lifelong love of learning and to stimulate intellectual curiosity; promote a culture of creativity; develop and nurture critical thinkers, problem solvers, decision makers, responsible risk takers and effective communicators.
• A broad based, dynamic and balanced Canadian curriculum where commitment to extra curricular activities is seen as equally important as academic achievement.
• A Ministry Inspected school, Ibn Batouta is running the French Immersion School (Francophone) and English program (Anglo Saxon) in its sister School Knowledge Academy
• Challenging opportunities for learning, both in, and out of the classroom, creating self assured, focused, disciplined, well-balanced and enterprising young men and women, ready to take their place and to make their mark in an ISLAMIC society.
• Individual attention within small class sizes to maximize opportunities for a variety of teaching and learning styles.
• An environment where close and effective partnerships between teachers, support staff, parents ensure that every child admitted will benefit from the education on offer.
• We offer a safe and nurturing community where diversity is celebrated and traditional values such as tolerance and mutual respect are practiced.

• Become Independent critical thinkers and active participants in a global society.
• Face life head on and experience it in ways that would demand courage, generosity, imagination, principle and resolution.
• Acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to set and achieve their own goals to become better leaders and guardians of tomorrow’s world.
• Accept, embrace and celebrate cultural diversity and promote values of respect, honesty and kindness appreciating themselves and others as individuals with rights and responsibilities irrespective of race, religion or gender
• Share responsibility for their own development by discerning how they learn best and by acquiring good study habits thus equipping them with the skills essential for success at university level and beyond.
• Have traditional values such as courtesy, honesty, tolerance and mutual respect are taught in a structured, purposeful manner within the context of a friendly and homely international community.
• Have a smooth transition from Junior to Secondary education