MacNamara

1975 - 1980

Miss MacNamara

Miss MacNamara took over from Miss Keep in 1975. She started setting up the nucleus for the school library and ordered many new books. The board of Governors decided to have a new school building built in Khilda, as the number of children was growing, partly due to the Lebanese crisis. Amman was also expanding.

Miss MacNamara left for health reasons in December 1980.

Click here to read a Jordan Times article on the ICS, in the Sunday-Monday, February 18-19, 1979 issue.  After you are done reading, just click your back button to return to this page.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Hassan and Princess Sarvath are the patrons of the ICS.  They inaugurated the new school building in 1980.  

The new school building, which has been designed and built wholly out of the school’s own resources, is located on the outskirts of the city in pleasant, open country side about 8 km from the town centre in Khilda Village between Wadi Seer and Sweileh crossroads.  It consists of a three story classroom block, a multi-purpose hall, with the usual administrative offices and stores, playground and playing field.

Until December 1973, the school remained an Anglican institution connected with the Archbishop of Jerusalem.  In that year, ownership was transferred to a company registered in the U.K. and known as the International Community of Jordan and is now registered as a charity under the Jordanian Law.  The school is strictly non profit-making.  It is registered with the Jordanian Ministry of Education, but as an International School, draws up its own curriculum, based on the U.K. National Curriculum.