🇦🇪 KHDA Wellbeing Matters · Dubai Private Schools
Show KHDA a thriving, data-informed wellbeing culture for every learner
youHQ helps Dubai schools listen to students, use wellbeing data well, and support everyone, including gifted and talented learners, in line with KHDA's Wellbeing Matters framework.
Wellbeing as culture, pedagogy and evidence - not just pastoral care
KHDA's Wellbeing Matters framework evaluates wellbeing as a dimension of the entire school experience. Inspectors assess three interconnected focus areas: how leaders pursue wellbeing strategically; how the school listens to and supports all stakeholders; and how it enables wellbeing experiences and outcomes for every learner.
KHDA's guiding principles emphasise a student-centred, strengths-based, equitable and collectivist approach. youHQ is designed to deliver evidence across every one of these areas.
What KHDA inspectors look for
How youHQ covers this
Leading a wellbeing culture: schools set and pursue a clearly communicated wellbeing vision, using reliable data to design provision
youHQ gives senior leaders real-time dashboards and termly reports to track wellbeing against stated priorities, adjust provision and communicate progress to staff, parents and governors. Inspectors see a school where the wellbeing vision is data-led and continuously improved - not just written in a policy document.
Listening to stakeholders: schools use reliable information from students, staff and parents to shape wellbeing provision
youHQ captures structured student and staff voice through regular check-ins, reflections and surveys -building one of the most consistent wellbeing data sets in the school. Feedback-to-action loops, where student input visibly leads to change, give inspectors concrete evidence that the school genuinely listens and responds.
Enabling wellbeing experiences: routines, activities and resources actively promote student wellbeing in daily school life
youHQ's PERMAH-based Wellbeing Framework embeds structured wellbeing activities into daily school life - covering positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment and health. Students develop measurable skills and habits, giving inspectors the evidence that wellbeing is woven into curriculum and culture, not bolted on.
Understanding every child: school provision is personalised, strengths-based and recognises each student's unique context and wellbeing journey
youHQ's staff dashboards give pastoral teams an individual-level view of how each student feels and what motivates them. Focus groups allow schools to view wellbeing separately for key cohorts - including gifted and talented learners, SEND students, new arrivals and exam groups - so no student's experience is hidden inside a whole-school average.
What a KHDA inspection conversation looks like with youHQ
A KHDA inspector asks how the school supports the wellbeing of its highest-achieving students. The Wellbeing Lead opens the "Gifted & Talented" focus group in youHQ - showing check-in data over three terms, a dip in belonging scores in Term 2, the peer mentoring programme launched in response, and the improvement in scores by Term 3.
They share a sample of anonymised student reflections about feeling pressured by expectations. The inspector notes that the school has "moved beyond academic monitoring to genuine emotional support for this group." The data was already there - it just needed to be seen.
We were recently inspected by KHDA, we used the platform to show progress in student wellbeing. We took a sample of students in Primary and Secondary and demonstrated through the platform the increase in their mood levels.
Student Wellbeing Co-ordinator, Clare Maclean
From check-ins to KHDA inspection evidence
A simple four-step loop that runs every day in school — and builds into a rich wellbeing evidence base for every learner.
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Data & Groups
Whole-school trends plus separate dashboards for gifted, SEND, new pupils
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Student Voice
Check-ins, reflections and surveys listening to every learner's experience
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Actions & Reviews
Logged wellbeing actions, group-specific targets, outcomes and review dates
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Inspection Evidence
Exportable reports for DSIB inspection and school wellbeing conversations
KHDA: Listening
KHDA: Leading
KHDA: Enabling
KHDA: Wellbeing Matters