GEMS International School

My son is now into inquiry about life and what he likes

Would not recommend this school any bit. My son spent 4 years, but the last year was particular awful. My complaints of bullying of my son were completely ignored and swept under the carpet.

I had genuinely liked the school when I had my son admitted to it in 2019, the principal was open, respectful and with a strong disposition to listening and problem solving. Not anymore !

Currently the strategy is, just don't do much, sweep all problems under the carpet and revel in inaction. Similar is the case with the school parent association, that sits in its little utopic ivory tower, with no sense of cooperation or consensual opinion/decision-making with parents.

Lastly, the parking and the entry-exit options are awful. On any day, it would take over 30 minutes to just get out of the school area, whereas it would normally take just 20 minutes to just get home. After a long day of learning, I wouldn't put my children through a traffic agony.

Happy to be out, such a relief !

Could not be more dissatisfied by a school.

It has somehow managed the incredible feat of making my kid hate school, which is a first, and annoying us parents, as a 10+ year old school, it still doesn't have proper infrastructure to enable parents to do easy drop off and pick ups, which routinely end up taking over an hour.

No sense of community and belonging seal the deal.

This is the perfect example as to why you probably shouldn't send your kids to a big school, let alone one that is poorly thought of, built and run.

Superb school where my children are extremely happy. The Principal is very experienced and is making some great changes to make the school an excellent choice in the Dubai IB school market.

One of the bad teaching experience miss Sara khatoon really not a good teacher in gems international I will remove my daughter from gems international she has lots of attitude I dun know how she got and became a teacher she is just like maid .....gems international has to remove miss Sara khatoon

As a grade 12 student who has spent an ample time at this school from grade 7 till grade 12 (continuing). I love this school because you can express being yourself. For example, I enjoy swimming and the school has a lovely swim pool and swim team. We do a lot of competitions but above all there's so much to do if you like writing there's a club for that, if you like football there's a big team for that.

This school is so internationally diverse with so many people from different backgrounds, I have made friends with people from Poland, Brazil, Denmark and more. I've had a great time in this school and I will miss it when I graduate.

The school is amazing in all aspects however at times the experience from the students are really bad as well as some teachers who treat children not to the best. Despite this the teachers and school are absolutely outstanding in handling children, introducing them to new things, planning, organization, teaching helping them to learn to use the latest of technology and teaching resources as well as helping them be more independent in life. They also give training to work as a team. The list of training and preparation of future life from this school goes on and on even in a 100 years I can't complete. Such as well being, anti bullying etc.
The bad part of the school is when problems happens. It is in a situation in which everything gets messed up and the wrong people get punished, however it is more of the teachers fault as they do not even investigate, only some bad teachers there are only like two so it is fine.

I love the school, it is like better than home that I would love to move to school and stay for a couple of days. And don't forget the teachers are mostly the best people. This school is 1000000 times better than the KHDA as the children sometimes do bad stuff to reduce the rating of the school. In my opinion it is better than any other school in UAE.

Highly recommended!