Gems World Academy

Diamonds World Academy, Dubai is a private Pre K-12 worldwide school situated in Al Barsha, Dubai. The school was initially settled in September 2007 by GEMS Education, in spite of the fact that its first year of operation was in 2008. It is an unadulterated International Baccalaureate based school.

The school is currently running at full limit with roughly 2050 understudies, and has plainly discovered its specialty, developing unequivocally for various years. The school has 185 educators giving it an instructor to understudy proportion of 1:11 – one of the best in the UAE.

Instructor turnover is abnormally high – or was in the last scholarly year, running at 35%. This is 10-15% higher than the Dubai normal and will be a zone of concern ought to the rate stay at a similar level into the following year. As indicated by the last insights gave by the KHDA, all educators have scholarly degrees.

GWA has an extremely differing, worldwide group. While the biggest understudy nationalities are from India, the USA and UK each is particularly a minority – the most noteworthy speaks to around 9% of aggregate numbers. More than 90 nationalities are spoken to inside the school, making it a standout amongst the most demographically differing and really universal schools in the Emirate. This – says the school – encourages global mindedness, a center part of the IB educational modules.

Diamonds World Academy, Dubai is approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to offer every one of the three IB programs – Primary Years Program, Middle Years Program and Diploma Program. The Academy is additionally an individual from the Council of International Schools (CIS) and was authorize amid the 2012-2013 school year.

For 2015-2016 the school got the KHDA assessment rating of Good, the 6th year consecutively it has accomplished this rating. Note however that in 2015/16 the KHDA included two additional evaluations – including a Very Good review. Basically GWA no longer has the second most elevated rating however the third most elevated.

Issues lie in more senior phases of the school. Diamonds World Academy's kindergarten and primary school are both considered "Exceptional".

GWA Dubai has yet to discharge any IB comes about. Its accomplishments page on its Web website points of interest GEMs' triumphs for the most part. This is an extensive strategy as opposed to an individual school based one. It is additionally an abnormal choice we accept for a gathering that has each motivation to advance and talk about scholarly victories with the setting that GEMs Education schools are comprehensive, not specific.

As per the school's most recent KHDA report it needs to enhance the "nature of instructing and learning in the MYP and DP to give higher accomplishment and advance, in any event showing genuine outcomes at IB are not on an indistinguishable level from other International Baccalaureate schools in the emirate. Fulfillment really fell in science in the last scholastic year to palatable in general. Diamonds World Academy Dubai likewise needs to advance "informative ability in Arabic as an extra dialect and keep on developing Islamic training and Arabic in order to offer a superior affair for understudies."

The school is extremely rich in offices: a 50m Olympic estimated secured swimming pool alongside a lesser pool, tennis and ball courts, skateboarding park, completely outfitted recreation center with wellness focus, junior exercise center, indoor shake climbing divider, theater, orchestra focus, green screen room, completely prepared music recording studio and a peace plant. Amazingly, GEMS World Academy additionally comes furnished with a best in class planetarium utilized by all understudies and staff for all subjects, not just space science. It is an extraordinary resource that supplements the conventional reviews and creates a high determination 360 degree perspective of the night sky with more than 300,000 stars inside its database. The school utilizes it to urge students to learn and investigate about the close planetary system, star groups of stars, and profound space questions through the intuitive show and additionally the chance to visit antiquated sanctuaries and plunge with whales investigating life submerged in addition to other things.

These sorts of offices should be paid for obviously. This is a school unmistakably focused at guardians who need everything for their kids, and can stand to pay. Expenses (starting 2015-2016) territory from 59320 AED every year for pre-kindergarten understudies to just shy of 103,000 AED every year for review 12 understudies. This makes it,with Repton, the most costly school that we have checked on, albeit both look set to be obscured by the forthcoming GEMS Nations school in the up and coming year.

The buzz

Comprehensively, enormously positive. Guardians rave over how congenial the school is/educators are. Many love the educational programs (notwithstanding you have to do the exploration on IB to check whether it fits with the requirements of your youngster). Educating is broadly commended – just like the school's offices. The school is costly, however guardians we addressed did not raise this as an issue. At the point when posed the question: Does this School offer Good Value, the most widely recognized answer was "Halfway Agree". Guardians would all around prescribe the school.