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Al-Saidya School in Muscat
This school was opened in 1940 and at its inauguration, the other schools stopped it activities and began a more advanced stage of formal governmental education in a school buildings specially designed for this purpose and included classrooms and administration rooms and teacher's room.
The schooling was consisted of two stages: the first was pre-primary of two-year scoping. The second phase is the primary period of six years, the successful achievers issued certificate by the Department of knowledge. a number of Omani teachers and others from Arab countries has taught in the school, the textbooks that were used in School was brought from Egypt and Palestine.


As for Mathematics, science, history, geography and some Arabic language books were provided from Lebanon. Islamic education material received a great deal of interest among subjects, besides the Koran there was a book (teach children ... necessary life skills) by Shaykh Noor al-Deen Abdullah Bin Hamid Al-Salmi.
The school activities included drama and theatre plays, sports, trips and scouts activities, and due to the importance of the Arab Calligraphy, the Sultan Said bin Timor in 1944 donated school students a series of pamphlets calligraphy known as a gold chains series, a group which was prepared by Najib Alhoowiny Calligrapher of King Fuad I of Egypt, donated to the Sultan Taimur bin Faisal in 1931.

In recognition of the major role played by this school in Muscat and its significance in the hearts of many of the educated –Omanis and in dedication to the important role of the school His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said -ordered a restoration project of the old building of the school, and the establishment of new premises and sophisticated facilities. it took one year and three months to accomplish the project, where the project supervised by Muscat Municipality so that the design it followed is similar to the old building. The re-open inauguration was on Sunday, May 21st .2000.

Al-Saidya School in Mattarh:
Mattarh School was opened in November 1959 and was then based in Beit Al-Mandhari in North Mattarh village, for one academic year and a few months of next year, two hundred students studied at the school in the introductory classes, I and II.
In December 1960 the school moved to a building set up specially, in the position which currently exists, and opened in the same year, third and fourth classes were added to the school. two years later, the school grow up to sixth grade, in 1963 the first group to graduate successfully of this class received a certificate of primary level .
The school's administrators and teachers were from brotherly Arab countries, to name some of them:

Qasim Mahmoud Shahin
Ahmed Mohamed Draz,
Ramzi Mustafa,
Mohammed Bader Shaath,
Rashid Hassan Salaymeh,
Saleh Mohamed
Taha Othman.

This school worked on the footsteps of Al-Saidya School in Muscat where the educational system, textbooks and daily attendance were identical. The Department of educational Knowledge was the superintendent.