Newlands School Dubai

At Newlands School Dubai learning is at the heart of everything that we do. We are passionate in ensuring that we enable every child to achieve their potential, both inside the classroom; and through our programme of extra-curricular activities. Students gain an excellent quality British education in a values-based, internationally-minded environment so that they may understand, contribute to, and succeed in an ever-developing and competitive world. Supporting students to develop key skills like cooperation, collaboration, communication and critical thinking are an important part of our educational ethos. Our focus is to help children learn and grow as we want our students to thrive in an ever-changing world.

We encourage students and staff to be life-longer learners, with a thirst for self-improvement, and with a desire to develop as leaders, in whatever capacity they may find themselves in. We believe it is important to model respect and foster a caring school culture, where every student is valued and appreciated.

Our Vision:

Our vision is for the school to provide:

opportunity and challenge
a commitment to continuous improvement
a route to university and lifelong learning
Our Promise to Parents

Parent partnerships are integral to learning. It is important that strong links exist between home and school so that it can continue to develop and flourish. We value the relationships that our school has built with parents and the wider community. In that way we will work together to continue to give our students the best quality education that we can provide.

We promise our children and parents:

Personal care and attention
Smaller classes
Modern teaching methods
Subject strengths
Creative learning opportunities
Opportunities for risk-taking
An understanding of the culture and heritage of Dubai
A culture of tolerance and respect
To find every child’s strengths
What makes us different?

We believe in strong engagement with children, with parents and with communities.

We get to know every child and every family. We develop with you an understanding of your child’s strengths, using innovative research tools. We work to remove hindrances and blockages to learning. We follow-up if things don’t work out right the first time.

Our class sizes are smaller so that teachers can get to know the class and give each child more time. Our fees make it possible to study the full English curriculum without facing the burden of high charges.

We employ staff for their subject knowledge as well as for their teaching ability.

We encourage a healthy spirit of competition to help students to ‘go for it’ and ‘be the best’. We firmly believe that children should have the opportunity to be creative, innovative and enterprising. We think of ourselves as facilitators so that they become imaginative, flexible, problem-solving, responsible and resilient.

Our Approach

The school’s approach is guided by research and experience of best educational practices. Evidence has shown that students learn best when they have home, peer, teacher and school support that is focused, accountable, sustained in quality, supported by data and aligned with the student’s ambition to achieve. This is the fundamental approach that drives success in our school.

The school considers its role in Dubai is to provide parents and students with:

a great education that enables each student to make the most of their potential and strengths
a route to high academic achievement and all-round character development
first class teaching that motivates and engages learners
an international outlook that encourages innovation and resilience
a school where they are always welcome and where they will be positively engaged