Newlands School

Children are invited to an assessment session at the school where they take part in age-appropriate activities designed so that we can understand your child better. These sessions are usually held with a small group of children.

We accept children throughout the school academic year.

Yes, we accept children after the academic year starts, only if we have spaces available.

The school starts at 7:30 am.

The school timings for FS 1 & FS 2 are from 7:30 am – 1:30 pm and from Year 1 to Year 9 are 7:30 am – 2:30 pm.

Yes. At Newlands School, we work with RTA, to ensure the highest standards of safety and security during the student’s journey to and from school.

New technology tools are used throughout the school, with projectors and smart screens in all classrooms. The school coordinates, curates and checks online resources so that technology use is both commonplace and safe. The preferred mode for students is for them to be digital authors more than passive recipients of online content and the school encourages each subject department to nominate software applications that allow students to practice their knowledge and skills thoroughly, with active feedback. Students learn to use editing tools, design tools and robotics.

Children at Newlands School have a wide a variety of extra-curricular activities to choose from. In keeping with our philosophy, students are expected to challenge themselves in a variety of ways. The school offers a number of after school clubs and societies – some of which are run by students, either for students of their own age, or for those in the younger years – but each with a teacher in charge providing support and guidance to ensure a high quality of delivery. Many of these after school clubs are academic in nature while others have a less academic focus.

At Newlands School Dubai, we teach Arabic as a first language and Arabic as an additional language. We also deliver French as a foreign modern language and we introduce it starting from Year 3.

Newlands School is an inclusive school that caters for the diverse population of Dubai. At Newlands School, we assess children on an individual basis and identify their specific needs.

Our qualified, special education staff conduct assessments at the admission stage, in cases where the parents identify potential learning difficulties, and after teacher referrals, where students’ difficulties have emerged through normal classwork. The school cooperate fully with KHDA to implement UAE and Dubai policy on special needs access and support, once a child has been granted a place at the school.

The school support students, once admitted, with a range of special needs across the spectrum covered by KHDA categories: behavioural, social and emotional; communication and interaction; sensory and physical; medical conditions or health-related disability; learning difficulties; gifted and talented, and disabled. This involves addressing gaps in the basic skills of literacy and numeracy, early difficulties caused by adopting English as an additional language, mild dyslexia and dyspraxia, certain forms of autism, mobility difficulties and manageable difficulties in hearing and sight.