Skilly

Skilly

🇦🇪For UAE schools · MoE Moral Education / MSC · early access

Moral Education is already mandatory. Evidencing it is the hard part.

Every school in the UAE teaches Moral, Social & Cultural Studies. What inspectors actually ask for is harder: proof that pupils are developing in character, and that the school can show it over time. Skilly maps to the MSC framework's Moral domain — Character Morality and Individual and Community — has pupils write a short reflection after each lesson, drafts warm formative feedback and flags any safeguarding concern, and turns the whole thing into the evidence of personal and social development your inspection file needs. The teacher always has the final word.

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🇦🇪 Wadeema's Law safeguarding routing · 🕌 Strands in English & Arabic · 🚫 No relationships-and-sexuality content

Students working together around a laptop

Early access: honest about where we are. The MSC mapping is built and the platform runs fully in UAE mode today — domains and strands in English and Arabic, Cycles, Grades, UAE helplines and Wadeema's Law safeguarding. You can try it in the live demo below. Skilly covers the Moral domain and part of the Cultural domain; the academic Social strands stay with your other subjects, and we say so on the page rather than claiming ten out of ten. The mapping is pending review by a UAE curriculum specialist and the interface is English (en-GB) today.

Built around the MSC Curriculum Framework

Three domains, ten strands — and honest about which we cover

  • The Moral domain — Character Morality, and Individual and Community — is where Skilly lives. Moral character, self-knowledge, empathy and resilience, plus the pupil's responsibilities to family, school and community.
  • The Cultural domain — Heritage and Civics — is partly covered: identity, belonging, rights and responsibilities map through Skilly's reflections. Emirati heritage content itself stays with your MSC teaching.
  • The Social domain — History, Geography, Sociology, Economics, Information Literacy and Information Processing — is largely academic and taught by your other subjects. We don't claim it, beyond the online-safety side of Information Literacy.

The Skilly UAE programme

Four things a UAE school needs Moral Education to do.

Each maps to shipped Skilly capability, running in UAE mode today.

1. The MSC framework, mapped — in both languages

KG & Cycles 1–3 · Grades 1–12

Skilly's lessons map to the MSC Curriculum Framework's strands, led by the Moral domain. MSC is taught in Arabic or English depending on the school, so every strand reads in both — Character Morality · الشخصية والأخلاق. In UAE mode the platform reads in your terms throughout: strands and domains, Cycles not Key Stages, Grades not year groups, Moral Education not SPHE.

2. No relationships-and-sexuality content. Enforced.

Removed from the library, not just hidden

This is the question every UAE school asks a Western EdTech vendor, so we answer it in code rather than in a policy document. Lessons carrying relationships-and-sexuality material are removed from a UAE school's library entirely — not filtered, not collapsed behind a setting a teacher could switch on. The protective child-protection lessons stay: recognising unsafe situations, grooming and exploitation, and knowing which trusted adult to tell.

3. Safeguarding, framed for the UAE

Child Protection Officer · Wadeema's Law

Every reflection is AI-scanned for a concern the moment it is submitted. UAE mode frames it correctly for an Emirati school: the school's Child Protection Officer, the duty under Federal Law No. 3 of 2016 (Wadeema's Law), and referral to the MoE Child Protection Unit or the Ministry of Interior Child Protection Centre. Pupils see UAE helplines, not Irish or British ones.

4. Inspection evidence, generated not assembled

Personal & social development · groups

Schools are inspected on pupils' personal and social development as a standard in its own right — and it is the hardest one to evidence. Skilly produces it as a by-product of teaching: per-pupil progression, class and whole-school dashboards, and an AI school summary. Groups adopt once and every school runs its own ring-fenced environment, so no data crosses between schools. Dubai schools also get a Skills for Life view: the same reflections rolled up against KHDA’s eight focus areas, beside your MSC coverage.

How UAE schools fund it

Existing MSC provision and group budgets, not a new line.

🏫 Existing MSC provision

MSC is already timetabled, staffed and resourced in every UAE school. Skilly is not a new subject to fund — it is the evidence and feedback layer on the provision you already run, replacing scattered worksheets and folders.

🏢 School-group adoption

Much of UAE private education sits inside groups running many schools. One agreement gives consistent MSC provision and one consistent evidence model across every school, while each keeps its own ring-fenced environment.

Honestly: we're not going to pretend there's a dedicated grant line for this. Schools fund Skilly out of existing MSC and wellbeing provision, which is where the workload it removes sits today.

🔒 Pupil-data protection, answered up front

EU-hosted, on the PDPL adequacy basis. Stated plainly.

  • Your school is the data controller and Skilly the processor, under a data-processing agreement provided at onboarding.
  • Pupil data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt) — database and application both. We are not going to describe that as UAE residency, because it is not.
  • The lawful basis is PDPL adequacy: UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 permits transfer to jurisdictions with an equivalent level of protection, and the EU regime is the benchmark other adequacy findings are measured against. We operate to GDPR standard, which is the strictest baseline we run anywhere.
  • One open question we would rather raise than have you find: Federal Law No. 2 of 2019 requires health data to be held inside the UAE. Whether school wellbeing reflections fall inside that definition is unsettled, and we have it under review with UAE counsel. If your school takes a strict reading, talk to us before you buy.
  • Free-zone schools: DIFC and ADGM run their own data-protection regimes, which we map to at onboarding.
  • Pupil reflections are never sold or shared, and are never used to train AI models.

We have deliberately stopped saying UAE hosting is <em>in progress</em>. Our database provider offers no Middle East region today, so that would imply a roadmap we do not have. If in-country residency is a hard requirement for your school or group, tell us early — it is an architecture conversation, not a settings change.

Pricing

Priced in AED, scoped to your school.

We're finalising UAE pricing with our early-access schools. Tell us your Cycles and enrolment and we'll send a clear per-pupil quote.

Get a quote for your school

Common questions

Skilly for United Arab Emirates, answered

Is Skilly aligned to the UAE Moral Education curriculum?
Does Skilly contain relationships and sexuality content?
How does Skilly handle safeguarding in the UAE?
Where is pupil data hosted, and does Skilly meet the UAE PDPL?
Is Skilly available in Arabic?
We are a Dubai school — does Skilly cover KHDA Skills for Life?
How much does Skilly cost for UAE schools?
Can we try Skilly for the UAE before speaking to anyone?

See United Arab Emirates mode running, then shape it.

The fastest way to understand Skilly for United Arab Emirates is two minutes in the live demo: a real school, in United Arab Emirates’s own curriculum terms. Pick your level:

🌱 Prime demo (primary) →🎓 Pro demo (post-primary) →

Running a British curriculum school? Many UAE schools follow the English National Curriculum alongside MSC. Skilly also maps to England's statutory RSHE and PSHE — with the UAE content rules applied when the school runs in UAE mode. See Skilly for England.