By providing emotional and spiritual support, leadership programs, life skills workshops, confidence building opportunities, sterling lifelong values with a deep commitment to be an inclusive school.
We offer guidance and support to all students so that they can be the best versions of themselves.
Counselling
The highly-qualified and specialised team of counsellors offer:
Value-based Programmes
Our students are sensitised to become empathetic and sentient human beings who believe in giving back to the community.
The four pillars of Moral Education are embedded and integrated in the school curriculum:
Soft Skills and Attitudes
Soft skills and an optimistic, resilient outlook are regarded as essential for future success and deliberately developed:
Safety and Security of Students
The health, safety and welfare of all students and staff is diligently and thoroughly ensured via the following:
The school has adopted the PERMAH Pillars of Wellbeing that form the scaffold of our wellbeing curriculum both for students and teachers.
Community and Parents are considered important stakeholders in creating a harmonious system. The school has adopted four pillars of parental engagement (C-H-A-A) which are:
C: Citizenship Reinforcement
H: Happiness Celebration
A: Academic Partnership
A: Advisory Function
Inclusivity is a hallmark of our school. We endeavour to meet the individual needs of ‘Students of Determination’ in a supportive environment to develop their maximum potential by providing educational programmes and related services. We believe in minimising the physical, attitudinal, communication and social barriers by taking appropriate action to remove obstacles. We endeavour to include all by providing complete access to the curriculum within a common learning environment.
We recognise and support the needs of students identified as gifted, more able and/or talented, through enrichment programmes and differentiated lessons.
Learning Support Assistants are available to work with individuals and small groups of children in class.
The school’s RAHHAL programme (POLE – Programme for Outliers’ Learning and Empowerment) offers personalised pathways to learning.
These students maybe those who –
In 2021, DPS Dubai launched The Art and Science of Parenting, an innovative outreach program for parents of students across K-12.
The Art and Science of Parenting unfolded a series of virtual interactive sessions delivered by esteemed specialists and professionals on age-appropriate topics, relevant to respective phase levels. Keynote speakers addressed the parents through these virtual sessions on topics such as Raising a Curious Child, Understanding the Teenage Brain, Critical Thinking and Importance of 21st Century Skills for Children in Formative Years, Bringing up Resilient Children, Making data Driven Choices, Introduction to Mind Mapping, How Trapped Emotions & Limiting Patterns Affect Our Lives and the Power of Forgiveness
The Enduring Edge – A Virtual Outreach Program to facilitate the Science of Success for our students:
The need for agility in an uncertain world demands that we have stellar character strengths to flourish in spite of the vagaries that life throws at us. It is this thought that encouraged DPSD to launch the unique program, The Enduring Edge where renowned educationists from across the world shared insights with students on how to live an empowered life. Keynote speakers addressed students through these virtual sessions on topics such as Emotions and its Effects, Introduction to Mind Mapping, How Well Do We Know Ourselves?, What do Universities Expect from Students?, The Biology of Fear and Breast Cancer Awareness, Me and My Invisible Bubble, How to be Tolerant Global Citizens and Health is Wealth.
