With a campus designed for minimal environmental impact, utilising solar power for all its energy needs, recycling all its water for agricultural use, and implementing waste separation, Fairgreen International School in Dubai empowers students to play a leading role in creating a sustainable future for our world. At our home in The Sustainable City, we have a true community school in the heart of Dubai.

Fairgreen International School has a mission to embrace and promote sustainability in all its forms. Developed to empower students with a forward-looking education, Fairgreen aims to inspire future generations to make a positive impact on the world as ambassadors of sustainable development.

Our challenging academic environment motivates students to be agents of change while teaching them to be critical thinkers. Our wide-ranging programme includes performing and fine arts, STEAM learning, sports and an array of extra-curricular activities. As a caring and warm community, we promote each student’s individual development and well-being.

With a strong multicultural student and faculty of 97 nationalities, we educate our students on the importance of acceptance, communication, appreciation and understanding. Through developing these core personal and social skills, and maintaining the GEMS Education ethos of learning, our students become true global citizens.

Our school is committed to digital citizenship. Our Bring Your Own Device program and dedicated Digital Learning Coaches implement technology into the classroom and enable students to find out ways that technology can assist, enhance and differentiate learning.

At GEMS International School we prepare students for life.

At GEMS Modern Academy, we take the responsibility of nurturing our children’s dreams seriously and ensure they enjoy their academic journey, as the most glorious years are spent in the safe environs of school, where the wonder of first-time experiences craft childhood memories that will be savoured forever.

The ethos that has taken years to build is palpable as soon as you enter the school, and even a casual visitor cannot help but be drawn to the warmth and care that seem to exude from every corner.  As a visiting overseas principal once commented – even the walls seem to speak!

At GEMS Modern Academy, like everywhere else, technology is a double-edged sword and while we are eager to maximise the obvious benefits, we are treading cautiously and mindfully. The concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has progressed from being mere jargon to a reality. Our students and teachers are embracing it, but our parents are concerned, and rightly so. While we certainly do not have all the answers, we are leaving no stone unturned in helping our children use technology responsibly.

The parents of children who have passed out from Grade 12 endorse the ACE (Activities for Curriculum Enrichment) programme we believe in so strongly – the lessons learnt from peers, juniors and seniors, and the leadership opportunity afforded during the afternoon programme chisels their personalities and grooms them into fine young adults who walk tall and take their rightful place in society.

GEMS World Academy – Dubai wants to be the number one global academy where students are independent learners in pursuit of excellence where they develop their intellectual curiosity and become independent thinkers, and where they create effective learning habits, so they can lead fulfilling lives while creating a better world for others.

Our students develop a passion for learning and a capacity for independent thinking. We have a strong record of academic success,  is reflected in our outstanding IB results.

We are an inclusive, positive, stimulating, demanding and open-minded community. We enable our students to discover genuine interests that extend beyond the classroom, and to express themselves by encouraging a broad understanding of the world, a social conscience and a considered approach to other people. We strive to ensure that GEMS World Academy – Dubai students have an understanding of their place in society, both locally and globally, and that they seek to always make a positive impact upon it.

We experiment, we demand, we persevere. GEMS World Academy – Dubai is a place with high expectations, relentless ambition and real scholarship, where courtesy and manners matter. GEMS World Academy – Dubai is a place where hard work and a genuine commitment to achieve will create those avenues to success.

If your children’s first language is French, give them the opportunity to excel in their mother-tongue whilst being immersed in an international community. The school’s selective French Native Speaker programme is designed for Pre-KG to Grade 5 and is unique to Dubai.

For a school that started with just 17 children in a small apartment building, JESS is now a leading international education institution with two campuses, three schools and over 2,300 students from across the world.

In the mid-1970s, expats were drawn to work in the oil industry in the Middle East.  It became apparent that there was a need for good-quality, affordable education, for the children of these English-speaking expat families.

And so, JESS was created in a building near the Deira Clock Tower in 1975. Within a year, with a growing number of students, and thanks to a plot of land gifted by HH Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai, JESS moved into a villa in Jumeirah. There, JESS Jumeirah expanded into what is now one of the leading primary schools in Dubai and continues to thrive.

In 2005, the demand for school places necessitated construction on a new site and the Arabian Ranches campus opened in what was then a brand new community on the very outskirts of Dubai. This campus houses both a primary and secondary school, giving rise to ‘three schools, two campuses, one JESS’.

Their success today is a descendant of the foresight shown in 1975 and they now work hard to cement our legacy for the next generation of JESS students.