📌 Overview

Education is often misunderstood as a means to an end even while stressing on qualification and success, without caring for the life, students have in schools. As living cannot be postponed, the experience of schooling has to be understood as an end in itself where the child, parent, teacher and management come together for mutual growth. Schools have the responsibility to provide such a platform and a scheme for mutual interaction of its community. It is such an integration of space, learning and technology that characterises, THE HABITAT SCHOOL in Al Jurf. The school envisages learning as a communitarian process of imbibing education from the natural, academic, social and technological ecosystems created around the institution of school. We strive to provide a new model of education for the expatriate children in the UAE in a culturally inclusive, technologically effective and ecologically sensitive way in a cosmopolitan environment. All members of the school community, their cultures, nationalities and regions are considered and respected equally, strictly as per the UAE laws, in a way that is sensitive to the global character of the school. At Habitat School, nobody should feel excluded in any way. All members of the School should be treated according to the principles of natural and social justice, where nothing unfair happens against anybody. Everyone should be treated with dignity, without any harshness in any aspects. The school is committed to the pursuit of excellence, striving to improve itself in all educational activities all the time. All actions connected to the school should be transparent and all members including the managing team should be accountable. School is where a child spends most of its quality time. It is the space of socialization and a window to the world. The curriculum is only one of the many ways of learning life in school. Hence, at HABITAT, the space is designed in such a way that children spent a great deal of time in the school, with each other, and their teachers in specially designed spaces. For those interested, the school also provides day boarding facilities where they are provided with enjoyable and educating time. The look and feel and the character of the space will equip the school in this process. There is a good deal of free space and land for children’s interaction and this will be integrated with regular academic work. Though all the modern facilities such as synthetic track and play areas are in built, the organic feel will be its main attraction which the school considers it central to its mission.... more