“Fire up the Engines of the Future: The Finalists”
The Top Schools Awards
Best Schools in the UAE 2023 – 2024
The Finalists, Jetpacks and Space Girls
Today we publish the finalists of The Top Schools Awards 2023- 2024: our view of the very best schools and educators in the UAE across thirty one of the most important areas that cover every aspect of what makes an education in the United Arab Emirates an outstanding one for “”little ones”, children, young men and young women. The Awards have engaged experts in education drawn from across Which Media including SchoolsCompared, WhichSchoolAdvisor, EDSTATICATM and our panels of experts worldwide.
This year we have themed our Awards around Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics – and, to recognise the importance of the achievements of our schools in this key area of the curriculum, we have launched our first dedicated Award for STEAM. Astonishingly, and deeply movingly, this saw some of our most extraordinary school children designing, engineering, and building, a Jet Pack to fly to the limits of the imagination – and beyond, in a process seeing departments drawn from across schools, from Art to Mathematics, and from Chemistry to Dance, working together to create the beyond-amazing.
An artist, engineer and inventor in the United Kingdom was commissioned to design and manufacture a working Jet Pack for the Awards. The story of its transfer by air across continents is the stuff of a James Bond novel, but having arrived safely the Jet Pack toured UAE schools and The Festival of Schools to inspire children’s imagination in Engineering and the wonders of STEAM.
The artwork for the Awards have featured the contribution of aspiring Space Girls and students from schools across the UAE:
Lottie from Safa Community School in Dubai
Tilda from The British School Al Khubairat
Sofie from GEMS World Academy Dubai
Lola from South View School Dubai
Wiktoria from Amity School Abu Dhabi
Valentina from Durham School Dubai
Ava from Victory Heights Primary School
Naisha from GEMS Dubai American Academy
Nina from GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail
We extend our grateful thanks to each and every one of you. You have inspired us… beyond words.
Commended, shortlisted schools and educators
The process, to date, has seen us already identify schools, and Principals, across the emirates, that achieved shortlisting in the Top Schools Awards for their outstanding achievements for students. These schools achieved certification as a Commended School, a mark that you can find proudly displayed by those schools that achieve it on their web sites and communications with parents. This is a mark of a school that we recommend for parents without qualification in its area of achievement. You will also find those schools that have achieved this commendation identified across our reviews later this year.
For parents asking “but what about my school?” do look out in the coming months for TSA commendations as we publish these in the months ahead.
An example of a TSA Commended School follows for the Happiest School:
Highly commended finalist schools and educators
Today we reveal our finalists. These are, for the most part, the top five schools or educators, in each area covered by the Awards, that capture the pinnacle of achievement in the respective areas of what we believe matters most for families and children. These are the extraordinary, inspirational and beyond-outstanding schools and educators in the running for our very top Award in each category of the Top School Awards.
These schools achieved certification as a Highly Commended School, a mark that you will find proudly displayed by those schools that achieve it on their web sites and communications with parents. This is a mark of a school that we recommend for parents without qualification in its area of achievement and has achieved recognition in the top 5 of all schools in the UAE for its provision in each specialist area. You will find also find those schools that have achieved this highest commendation identified across our reviews later this year.
An example of a TSA Highly Commended School follows for the Happiest School:
Today’s announcement is the result of more than six months of research and consultation with schools, parents, students and experts in the biggest exercise of its kind ever undertaken in the UAE.
Because of the scale of the task, and because of the extraordinary quality of so many schools in the United Arab Emirates, the process has taken much longer than we anticipated. We make no apology for this; it is important to get this right. Any errors, including omissions, are of course our own and we take full responsibility for them. Inevitably, deciding just five finalists in each category, given the absolutely outstanding quality of our schools and educators, was complex and at times painfully and excruciatingly difficult. There is significant responsibility here to parents, students, teachers, principals and most importantly children. The weight is a heavy one. It is hardest on those that missed being represented by the narrowest of margins. We hope that our finalists celebrate their absolutely exceptional accomplishment, but also recognise that they are here in no small part because of their peers. In the UAE our educational community may be divided by names on buildings, but we are one community equally driven to deliver everything we can, and more, for children and their families.
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