📌 Overview

Citizens School is a visionary school at the heart of a new education hub in Dubai’s bustling City walk district, conceived, designed and developed in the UAE by Al Zarooni Emirates Investments. Encompassing a teacher training foundation, excellence centre and K-12 school, the school is set to open in September 2022 ready for the new academic year. Designed to present learning through a new lens, the Citizens schooling experience focuses on the whole growth of a learner and is built around each child’s unique requirements, empowering them with choices to explore themes, expand interests and determine the routes that they want to go on to reach their full potential. This is all while equipping them with a rich, connected bank of knowledge and skills relevant for the 21st-century. Citizens School has partnered with Blenheim Schools, part of the Chatsworth Schools group – one of the leading school groups in the UK – to provide an experience-based, inclusive curriculum bespoke to each child’s strengths and approach to learning unique to Citizens School pupils named the Citizens’ Tapestry. Using the UK National Curriculum as its standard, the Citizens’ Tapestry is a first-of-its-kind, custom-built curriculum that builds upon the blueprint with six key threads – Mindset; Entrepreneur; Health & Wellbeing; Sustainable Leadership; Global; and Digital Literacy – forming the pattern of its comprehensive, holistic, inclusive, and fun education system. The Citizens’ 43,000-square-meter school campus, program and approach have been thoughtfully curated to re-shape learning, enabling students to thrive as citizens of the future, by focusing on wellbeing, imagination, and enabling outstanding outcomes for all young people. The groundbreaking Citizens School site is double the size of other schools in the same catchment area, has a capacity for 2,600 children between ages 3-18; a 2,900-square-meter open playing and recreation area; ample parking; a 1,250-square-meter multi-purpose performing arts and activity hall; six lane semi-covered swimming pool and learning pool, football and rugby pitches adhering to FIFA and World Rugby standards; as well as a dedicated dining area for primary school students. Citizens School is also the first in the Middle East education sector to accept cryptocurrencies for tuition fee payments. Children will learn about the importance of digital currency and blockchain technology, further preparing them for the future, in line with the UAE’s ongoing measures to formalise virtual assets. The school will accept payments from the two major cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) – providing parents with flexible payment options. This is in addition to traditional forms of payments and interest-free monthly payment options that Citizens School will offer. Key Information Students/Teacher ratio: 1:8 in Early Years Foundation Stage and 1:16 from Year 1 to 6. We aim to keep the student to teacher ratio low to allow teachers to focus on each individual's strengths and weaknesses and tailor the learning experience according to their needs. Maximum class size: 24 students Age range: for the first year from 3 years old to 11 years old Accepting admissions from: September 2022... more