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The Academy supports the students in academic, career, personal-social development and general health care. These services foster, promote, and improve student success and achievement.

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• School Nurse
• ESL
• Nutrition

School Nurse

The School Nurse acts as a care provider, advocate, and health educator. The School Nurse collaborates with parents, teachers, and community health care professionals to provide quality health care to students in the school community. School Nurses are accountable to practice in accordance with the policies of the school and currents practices as identified by the Ministry of Health in Qatar for School Nursing.

The functions of the School Nurse may include, but not limited to, the following:

• Promoting and protecting the optimal health status of students;
• screening, evaluating, and referring appropriately for findings of deficit in vision, growth, and other health conditions that may affect learning;
• planning and implementing school health plan for student with special health needs, including medicine administration and necessary treatments;
• impose a "Free Nut Zone" policy in school;
• promoting and assisting in the control of communicable diseases through monitoring of immunization, prevention and giving out information to parents and staff about the contagious diseases;
• recommending activities to promote a healthy and safe environment for students and staff.

The School Nurse does not diagnose but may refer or require a doctor follow-up if there is a medical concern or suspicion of communicable disease.

ESL

The ESL program at Qatar Academy was established to support non-native English speakers in Kindergarten through grade 8. Students are given support to develop and enhance both basic interpersonal communication skills and the academic language needed to succeed at Qatar Academy. Students are indentified for the ESL program through teacher referrals, classroom observation, interviews and testing. The ESL team supports these students through a range of activities including planning and team teaching with mainstream teachers, inclusion and pullout instruction. This range of delivery methods allows for the use of diverse teaching strategies that address different learning styles and needs. These all lay the foundations for the ESL Program's central aim of enabling student success in the mainstream class setting.

The Qatar Academy ESL team consists of Bonnie Jean Avilez, bavilez@qf.org.qa who is located in the Early Childhood Education area, Harish Kanabar, hkanabar@qf.org.qa  Derek Nelson, dnelson@qf.org.qa and Cushla Hounsell, chounsell@qf.org.qa who are located in the Primary school area, and Mariam Hundsoerfer, mhundsoefer@qf.org.qa who is located is the Senior School English Department.

Nutrition

Qatar Academy is supported the Qatar Foundation's focus on 'healthy eating' and promoting a health aware environment within Education City.

The Nutrition Advisory Board composes of the Head of Nutrition (QF) and members of the Administrative staff from Qatar Academy, to address all issues relating to nutrition and the health of students and staff, and to develop a holistic approach to providing solutions to day-to-day nutrition or health issues.

These services include:

• tailoring of menus for students suffering from food allergies or intolerances;
• nutrition and health education programs/workshops to staff and students;
• dietary counseling to students suffering from nutritional problems compromising their health.