The Aquila School

The Aquila School is a happy community school with amazing learning at its heart. At our school pupils are empowered to make choices, engage in meaningful learning experiences and make exceptional progress. The Aquila School is an exciting international British school in Dubai, located in Dubailand. Pupils engage in lessons that promote enquiry, innovative thinking, making decisions and problem solving, so that they can be independent, creative, and resilient learners. The experienced and dedicated teachers at the school are empowered to teach pupils what they need to learn right now, enabling them to make as much progress as possible. To do this, we are committed to: • Placing children at the heart of everything we do • Empowering children to make decisions about their own learning • Providing an amazing curriculum in English and Arabic • Employing the very best British trained and qualified teachers • Ensuring every child makes as much progress as possible The school, currently open to pupils from FS1 to Year 10, will eventually grow to become an all-through school offering IGCSE, GCSE and BTEC in Years 10 and 11, progressing onto A-Levels, IBCP, IBDP and BTEC in Years 12 and 13. The Aquila School is rated ‘Outstanding’ by the British Schools Overseas (BSO) and received the highest rating of Developed in the Distance Learning Evaluation conducted by the KHDA. The school was recently presented with the SEND Inclusion Award by Optimus Education and is also a BSME school. The Aquila School aims to be a community school, where collaboration with families and school connectedness ensures pupils, love coming to school and have a love for learning. The Aquila School is the flagship school of the International Schools Partnership (ISP) group, a global network of over 55 schools across over 16 countries, which ensures outstanding international learning connections, quality assurance and excellent governance.