Through the School Gates, Safa British School

Choosing the school that is just right for your child is a complex process. That’s why we have designed ‘Through the School Gates’, a video series designed to complement our detailed School Reviews and highly personal School Experiences to give you the inside scoop on the UAE’s schools. For this episode of Through the School Gates, we take you to the brand-new campus of Safa British School.

By Jenny Mollon

First Published:

Saturday 20 March, 2021

Updated:

10th Aug 2022

Through the School Gates is a new series of behind the scenes looks at UAE’s schools. In this episode, Safa British School’s vibrant Principal, Zara Harrington, gives us the low down on this all through, British curriculum school in its new location right in the heart of Jumeirah!

Safa British School (SBS) is a school with a lot going on! Rated ‘Very Good’ by Dubai’s education regulator, the KHDA, the school has just recently moved in to a beautiful, purpose-built campus. This episode of Through the School Gates allows parents to see the school’s well thought out and lively primary phase, the secondary phase (with fantastic specialist facilities), the peaceful and green outdoor playscapes and plentiful sports facilities.

Find out why Ms Harrington feels the school ‘surrounds you like a big warm hug’, see the Foundation Stage children learn in a fantastically playful environment, get a glimpse of the school’s meandering courtyard stream, top notch sports facilities and see the secondary students hard at study in their ‘bright and airy’ classrooms and well-equipped specialist teaching rooms.

Join our senior editor and host Jenny Mollon as she asks Safa's principal the questions we know parents want answered about the school... If you want to know even more, the WhichSchoolAdvisor.com review and school experience deliver everything you need to know...