Maadhoshi Secondary School Grades eight to twelve for this island and four others, with a hostel and two laboratories
Six hundred and ninety students, five islands

The senior school for this atoll's eastern islands

Grades eight to twelve, three streams to grade ten and four subject combinations above it, two laboratories, a hostel for sixty four students and a supervised study hall open six nights a week. Admission is into grade eight, in October.

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Why this school takes children from four other islands

The four islands to the east of us each have a school to grade ten or to grade eight, and none of them has enough students in the senior grades to run a science stream or to employ a physics teacher. Between them they have enough for both.

So they send us their senior students. About two hundred and ten of our six hundred and ninety come from off the island: one hundred and forty six by the daily school boats, and sixty four who live in the hostel during the week and go home on Thursday afternoons.

That is what this school is for, and nearly every arrangement described on this site follows from it. The day starts at seven because the boats arrive at ten to. There is a telephone hour for parents who cannot come to the gate. The study hall is open in the evening because a hostel student has nowhere else to work. And every meeting for parents is held twice, once on a weekday and once on a Saturday morning when the boats are running for families.

The school

Streams, subjects and what each part of the school does

Eight sections: the three streams to grade ten, the four combinations above it, the laboratories, the hostel, the study hall and the careers desk.

Grade eight: the year everybody starts

Six classes, students arriving from five different schools, and a first term spent finding out what each of them actually knows.

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Grades nine and ten: the three streams

Science, commerce or general, chosen at the end of grade eight, with four subjects common to all three.

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Grades eleven and twelve: four combinations

Physical sciences, life sciences, business, or humanities and languages, in groups of twelve to eighteen.

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The two laboratories and the practical work

A physics and chemistry laboratory, a biology room, one technician, and rules that are not negotiable.

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The hostel: sixty four students, Sunday to Thursday

Two blocks, three wardens living on site, four roll calls a day, and a place a parent two hours away can trust.

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The supervised study hall

Open six nights a week to every student, not only boarders, with a teacher on duty and no telephones in the room.

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For parents on another island

Four things arranged for families we do not see at the gate

A telephone hour every Tuesday

Four until five. Ring the office, ask for the form teacher by name, and you will speak to them rather than to a message.

Every meeting held twice

Once on a weekday evening and once on a Saturday morning when the boats run, so a parent from another island can reach one of them.

A written report every term

Two pages of sentences per subject, not a column of marks, and it goes home with the student and by post to the family.

Told in the same week

Attendance, a missed examination or a real worry is telephoned home the week it happens. Distance is not a reason to find out in November.

The school this year

690
Students, grades eight to twelve
210
From four other islands
64
Living in the hostel
46
Teachers, in six departments
What the school has built

Three things worth reading about

The two laboratories, the hostel, and the evening study hall that changed what a boarding week is like.

The two laboratories
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The two laboratories

A proper physics and chemistry room, a biology room and a technician, which is what turned a science stream on paper into one that works.
The hostel, and the fortnight it nearly did not survive
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The hostel, and the fortnight it nearly did not survive

Sixty four beds in two blocks, three wardens living on site, and the arrangements that were rewritten after the first two weeks.
The study hall, opened to day students
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The study hall, opened to day students

A room built for boarders, opened to everybody, and thirty day students a night who have nowhere at home to work.
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From parents and former students

What families tell us

My daughter boards and I am two hours away. Somebody rang me the week she had a bad fortnight, not at the end of term, and again when she was better. That is all a mother two hours away wants.

A Aminath Saeeda Parent, grade eleven, from an eastern island, Maadhoshi

They told us plainly that our son was not ready for the physical sciences combination and showed us the paper. He took business, he has done well, and I am glad they did not simply let him in.

I Ibrahim Nashid Parent, grades nine and twelve, Maadhoshi

I used the study hall every night for two years because there was nowhere at home. A teacher was always in the room and you could ask. I do not think I would have finished otherwise.

H Hussain Maaiz Former student, grade twelve two years ago, Maadhoshi
Admission and the streams

Joining in grade eight, and choosing a stream

When does admission open, and who may apply?

October, closing at the end of the month, for students finishing grade seven at this school or at the four eastern island schools. Admission is into grade eight only.

Bring the grade seven report, the birth record and the immunisation card, and say on the form whether a hostel place is needed, because the hostel has sixty four beds and they are allocated at the same time.

Is there an entrance examination?

No. Every student from the five schools who applies in time has a place.

There is an assessment in the second week of grade eight, in mathematics, English and Dhivehi. It is not used to stream anybody, it is not reported as a mark, and its purpose is to find the students who need the support periods and to tell the departments where this year's intake actually is.

How is the stream for grade nine chosen?

At the end of grade eight, from science, commerce and general, with Dhivehi, English, mathematics and Islam common to all three.

There is a written note home in the second term, two parents' meetings, one on a weekday evening and one on a Saturday morning, and a conversation with the form teacher, which we offer to every borderline family rather than waiting to be asked. Changing stream in the middle of grade nine is possible twice a year and is difficult, which is the argument for getting it right.

Can a student join in grade eleven from another school?

Yes, and about fifteen do each year, mostly from schools that end at grade ten.

Come with the grade ten results and the report. The combination is discussed rather than assumed: where the results do not support the combination a family has in mind, the school says so with the paper in front of it and offers the alternative. Hostel places for grade eleven entrants depend on what is left after the returning boarders, so apply in October rather than in January.

Grade eight admission closes at the end of October

For students finishing grade seven here or on the four eastern islands. Bring the grade seven report, the birth record and the immunisation card, and say whether a hostel place is needed.

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Get in touch

Write to the office

Give the student's grade and class. Anything for a form teacher is passed the same day, and anything about a hostel student reaches the warden as well.

We reply to every message. Leave a phone number if you would rather we called.

  • Where we are Maadhoshi Secondary School
    Madharusaa Magu, Maadhoshi
    Maldives
  • Call us +960 664 5510
  • WhatsApp 9607645510
  • Email us office@maadhoshischool.edu.mv
  • Opening hours School day: Sunday to Thursday, 7am to 1.30pm Supervised study: Sunday to Thursday, 4pm to 6pm and 7.30pm to 9pm Office: Sunday to Thursday, 7am to 3pm Telephone hour for off island parents: Tuesday, 4pm to 5pm