Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Sheikh Ahmad

Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Sheikh Ahmad atau nama ringkasnya SMK Dato' Sheikh Ahmad, merupakan sebuah Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan yang terletak di Jalan Besar Arau.

 Pada 2009, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Sheikh Ahmad memiliki 291 orang pelajar lelaki dan 458 orang pelajar perempuan, menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan murid seramai 749 orang. Ia mempunyai seramai 77 orang guru.2009

Sejarah 

 Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad diasaskan pada 1 Januari 1964 sebagai Sekolah Menengah Aliran Kebangsaan yang pertama di Perlis. Sebelumnya, ia ditumpangkan di Sekolah Inggeris Derma, Kangar mulai Mei 1958.

 Sekolah ini dirasmikan pada 12 Jun 1964 oleh Y.T.M Tengku Suleiman Ibni Almarhum Tengku Bendahara Abu Bakar sebagai Sekolah Menengah Melayu Arau. Pada 3 November 1966, sekolah ini diberi nama baharu, iaitu Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad dengan menerima hanya pelajar Tingkatan 4 dan 5 sahaja, manakala Tingkatan 1, 2, dan 3 belajar di Sekolah Melayu Arau.

 Mulai 1968, sekolah ini menjadi pusat aliran sains bagi pelajar Tingkatan 4 seluruh negeri Perlis yang berakhir pada 1977. Pada 1 Julai 1970, Sekolah Menengah Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad dicantumkan dengan Sekolah Melayu Arau. Pada 1972, Sekolah Menengah Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad memasuki era baru apabila Tingkatan 6 Rendah Sastera dimulakan dan setahun kemudian, Tingkatan 6 Rendah Sains.

 Pada tahun 1994, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad dijadikan sebagai salah sebuah sekolah kawalan di Perlis, maka hanya pelajar-pelajar berkelayakan sahaja akan ditempatkan di sekolah ini.

 Pada tahun 1997, sekolah ini dijadikan sekolah perintis Kementerian Pendidikan bagi mata pelajaran Perkomputeran peringkat STPM dan seterusnya pada tahun 1999, sekolah ini sekali lagi dipilih sebagai sekolah perintis Kementerian Pendidikan bagi mata pelajaran Teknologi Maklumat peringkat SPM.

 Pada 10 Oktober 2017, sekolah ini telah diiktiraf sebagai IB World School oleh International Baccalaureate organization. Sekolah ini menawarkan Middle Year Programme selama 5 tahun kepada pelajar yang ingin melanjutkan pelajaran setelah mendapat keputusan Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR).

Visi dan Misi

Visi 

 Insan didikan SMKDSA menyumbang kepada kesejahteraan Sejagat

Misi 

 Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Sheikh Ahmad melahirkan murid yang holistik dan beretika,di samping menghayati pembelajaran sepanjang hayat dan berpemikiran global.

Motto Sekolah 
Maju terus Maju

Slogan 

 SEDIA MENJANA KECEMERLANGAN DALAM SEMUA ASPEK
 STRIVE FOR PERFECTION  SETTLE FOR EXCELLENCE

Piagam 

 Melahirkan pelajar yang berilmu, beriman dan beramal melalui pencapaian.

 Mewujudkan persekitaran sekolah yang bersih dan menarik bagi menjamin keselesaan dan keselamatan pelajar.

 Melahirkan pelajar produktif, inovatif serta berwawasan.

 Memupuk suasana harmonis di kalangan ibu bapa dan seluruh masyarakat sekolah.

 Menanam sikap tanggungjawab, ikhlas, jujur, komited, dan menyayangi sekolah.

Wawasan 

 Seluruh warga Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad berusaha dan berazam untuk mewujudkan suasana pengajaran dan pembelajaran yang berkesan.

 Meningkatkan tahap profesionalisme supaya sekolah ini menjadi institusi pendidikan terunggul.

Pencapaian 

 Sekolah ini merupakan antara Sekolah Kluster Kecemerlangan di Negeri Perlis.

 Pada tahun 2017 sekolah ini telah diiktiraf sebagai IB World School.

MYP IB 
MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE

 Based on a survey from the Curriculum Development Division carried out in the school in October 2012, SMK Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad is among the 10 pilot schools selected (early 2013) to implement the Middle Years Programme (MYP) International Baccalaureate in Malaysia. The project is sponsored by the Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM) and the Ministry of Education (MOE).

 In accordance to the Education Blueprint 2013 -2025, AIM is looking at how to infuse higher order thinking skills into the school curriculum and international practices that can be applied to prepare students for the 21st century. In this regard, the agency’s latest project in education is the introduction of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme in 10 government schools across the country

 The 10 schools involved in the project are SMS Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, Kelantan, Kolej Melayu Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Kolej Tunku Kurshiah, Negeri Sembilan, SMK Sg Tapang, Sarawak, SMK Pantai, Sabah, Putrajaya Presint 9(2), Putrajaya, SMK Sultanah Bahiyah, Kedah, SMK Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad Perlis, SMK Seri Tualang, Pahang and SMKA Sheikh Abd Malek, Terengganu.

 Following a memorandum of agreement signed between the IB and AIM, the project aims to prepare the selected schools to eventually achieve the IB World School status and offer the IB Middle Years Programme. The MYP is aimed at encouraging students between 11 and 16 to be creative sand critical thinkers. It offers a curriculum framework, where students are required to study at least two languages, humanities, sciences, mathematics, arts, physical education and technology. They are required to undertake an independent personal project in the final year, in order to demonstrate the development of their skills and understanding. Students will still sit for their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM).

 Malaysia is unique in carrying out the IB project as AIM had negotiated for the use of In-country consultants (ICCs). A total of four ICCs, all expatriate retired teachers from IB schools conduct face-to-face workshops in the schools to complement the online training for teachers. Both the training and online activities are conducted in English. In addition, the ICCs carry out a coaching and mentoring session for the Leadership team, school MYP Coordinator (the Senior Assistant for Administration) and assistants and teachers. The northern cluster ICCs who were responsible for five schools in North and East Malaysia were Mr. Darren Arbour and Ms. Christine Taylor. The present consultant (appointed by IB Asia Pacific) is Mr. Adrian Gan.

 After each face-to-face workshop, all teachers were required to attempt three online activities to describe and reflect on strategies used in their lessons. The MYP Coordinator would brief teachers of the online task each week to facilitate teachers in giving their responses online. Teachers had problems meeting the deadlines for online activities as they were involved with meetings, co-curricular activities etc outside school. A group of teachers, called Coordinators Educator Network @ CEN were identified to help and support colleagues in the understanding and implementing of the MYP in the school.

 In February 2014, the school was successful in its bid to become a candidate school offering the MYP. We are currently in the interim period (2014 -2016) to prepare the school to fully implement the MYP in accordance to IB’s standards and practices. We are thankful for the support given by the AIM, MOE and the State Education Department in overseeing the progress of the implementation of the MYP. Hopefully with this support we will be declared a member of the IB World School offering the MYP come 2016.

 We are proud that SMK Dato’ Sheikh Ahmad has achieved this milestone (MYP IB candidate school) this year in its 50th celebration, considering its humble beginnings as a Malay secondary school established in 1964.

 The following table shows workshop schedule conducted by the ICCs and courses conducted by the International Baccalaureate Organization for administrators and teachers from April 2013 to early 2014.

Alamat
 Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Sheikh Ahmad
 Jalan Besar Arau
 02600, Arau
 Perlis, Malaysia
 Telefon =  6049861239
 Faks      = 6049861239

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