Junior School (5-11)

Our Key Stage One department is located in the Junior School building, allowing children to move seamlessly from one stage to the next. The learning areas for Key Stage One are stimulating, beautiful and fun, encouraging children to play together. Whilst still supporting and enabling the critical social and learning behaviours from the Foundation Stage, children in Key Stage 1 begin to develop more sophisticated skills as they increase their confidence in academic skills.

Learning in Years One and Two maintains a play-based, inquiry-driven model, but with slightly more structure. Planned independent and pupil-led approaches ensure that our children’s individual contributions are valued and that they grow in confidence as they begin to realise their value and contribution to the wider school community.

Your Key Stage Two child will embark with confidence on more challenging and goal-oriented learning opportunities, both independently and within collaborative teams. In Years Three to Six, they are encouraged to take more ownership and direction of their learning. Our amazing teachers plan delivery of the curriculum in a manner which is exciting and engaging; maintaining a very practical “hands-on” approach as much as possible. Your child will grow and flourish through Key Stage Two into a confident, curious, independent learner.

In Key Stage Two, pupils are given various opportunities to participate in musical, sporting, artistic and academic activities internally and in competition with other schools in Dubai. The Pupil Council and other leadership roles offer our older students leadership opportunities; sharing their ‘voice’ and contributing to the school and wider community through a number of valuable projects.

Siblings Supervision Club will be available immediately. It aims to provide a supervised space for students who finish their classes at 2:40 and 2:50 and are waiting for their older siblings to finish school. 

Here are the key details:

• Timing: The club will run from 2:40 PM to 3:45 PM, coinciding with the dismissal times of younger students and older pupils.
• Location: Children will be supervised in the designated area in the auditorium.
• Pick-Up: At 3:45 PM, we kindly ask that parents or older siblings arrive at the auditorium entrance to collect the waiting students.

Please note that Brave Bears Club for our FS1 and FS2 pupils who have older siblings will now begin earlier than communicated and will now begin on Monday 4th Sep.  Please be reminded that this has limited spaces and sign-up communication was sent previously with class allocations letters.  Ms Allison will contact all parents and will let them know by the end of the week whether their child has secured a place. Please contact jallison@kentcollege.ae if you need any further information about this.