About the school
Kings’ College will be a centre of excellence in British education from pre-school to 6th form with opportunities for adult learning outside of school hours. Kings’ students will pursue a curriculum that offers social, cultural and global awareness as well as the highest of academic standards with options in the secondary phase for a range of British qualifications.
Kings’ College is designed to service the community and its ever changing needs and technological growth. A low student/teacher ratio, excellent staff and infrastructure combined with professional training programmes will ensure up to the minute expertise and excellence in teaching and learning.
Kings’ College will be tailor made for modern Dubai serving the needs of the ever increasing expatriate population, whilst offering a relevant and appropriate education to the local population via Arabic language and social studies with advanced study options.
A British school with a global perspective
We seek to nurture and send forth from Kings’ College, young adults who are interested in people and are able to work with and communicate with a broad range of their fellow men and women; young adults who have open and enquiring minds, who can observe and reflect critically upon what they see. Thoughtful, sensitive and perceptive, interested and enthusiastic learners with confident linguistic skills, numeracy, logical reasoning and a global perspective on life.
A school with a difference
Kings’ College will pioneer school building design in the UAE to facilitate a tutorial and personalised learning approach. A tutorial programme for mixed age groups of students will include core skills for adult life relating to people management and being managed by others. Tutorial groups will operate as teams focusing on how to learn and how to manage learning through life. Managing information and developing the ability to access and evaluate information will be core to the tutorial process which will promote combined project activities involving all ages.
The Extra-Curricular Programme will span wide ranging sporting, cultural and musical activities to lectures and debates with an international focus. Kings’ College will, via links already established between the Royal Society of Arts (UK), offer artists, writers and scholars ‘in residence’ programmes that draw upon the international forum through such links as the United Nations One World Committee.
Kings’ College will have an established link with a similar public school in the United Kingdom. All students will have the opportunity for residential exchanges that incorporate a study and work placement programme promoting Kings’ student’s international awareness and experience.
The teaching approach at Kings’ College will create a culture of life-long learning for its students. Developed to bring about the desire not just to learn the facts, but to probe more deeply and understand how these facts arose and fit together.
Teaching Faculties
Teaching and Learning at Kings’ College will be faculty based. Each faculty will in addition to specialist teaching provision have a unique identity within the school campus, with open/shared spaces for regular monitoring of students’ progress and cross-curricular teaching.
Kings’ College will have tailor made building to maximise the development of a community living together in harmony and mutual respect. Elements will include open, well formulated spaces for staff to meet together at both faculty and whole school level with equivalent spaces for students enabling the shaping of the school ethos and culture and fully expressing the school’s philosophy:
'the best by every child'