Rashid Primary Section

Rashid Primary Section provides an education for students from 3.5 to 11 years. All our students have English as a second language and are taught a modified version of the UK National Curriculum, with a strong emphasis on a multi-sensory, cross-curricular learning throughout the school.

Our students are enrolled at three and a half to four and a half years old and enter the Foundation Stage where they take part in a 2 year program following the UK Early Years Foundation Curriculum. The students are taught 6 areas of learning. These are:

• Personal, social and emotional development 
• Communication, language and literacy 
• Problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy 
• Knowledge and understanding of the world 
• Physical development 
• Creative development

Secondary curriculum overview

Over its 25 years of development, RSB has developed an innovative and flexible curriculum that meets the needs of our Emirati students.  The curriculum combines Islamic Studies and Arabic, from the UAE Ministry of Education, with elements of the UK (English and Welsh) National Curriculum.  We then add a healthy mix of our own developments to ensure that the school meets the needs of our bilingual, Dubai based, learners.

In Years 7 to 11 (pupils aged 11 to 16) our students work towards GCSE examinations along with Islamic Studies and Arabic.  In Year 12 around half of our students stay for our one year High School Diploma course and the others stay for one year of AS levels or two years of AS and A-levels.  The High School Diploma prepares students for further and higher education through a series of core courses and electives written by the school and these cover topics as diverse as Psychology, Engineering, Film Making and Graphic Design.