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Each Reptonian house point earned throughout the academic year will be matched by one Philcoin token and can be donated to registered Philcoin charities  The winning house at the end of the year will receive two tokens for every one house point earned Students are assigned houses from FS1 and start earning points from Year 1 onwards, based on success … Read More

108 students across nine schools in the UAE participated in the Apple Distinguished School’s annual Creativity Festival  Students used generative AI tools to design game ideas based on solving global environmental challenges Repton Al Barsha, part of Excella, a leading operator of high-performing K-12 schools, hosted the largest iteration of its annual Creativity Festival on Wednesday, 31 May 2023. 108 students from … Read More

Active learning is a powerful educational approach that engages students in the learning process, promoting critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. Active learning creates an interactive and dynamic environment that fosters student engagement and enhances their overall learning experience. By actively participating in discussions, hands-on activities, and collaborative projects, students are more likely to retain information and develop a deeper understanding … Read More

Repton Al Barsha students attended an inspirational live video session with Emirati astronaut, Sultan Al Neyadi, at the Dubai Opera in a collaborative initiative between Emirates Literature Festival and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center on 21 March 2023. During the live interactive session, Reptonians from Year 10, studying the Triple Science GCSE subjects, and Year 9 students aspiring to pursue … Read More

At Repton Al Barsha we focus on a holistic approach to learning; providing our pupils with the tools needed to become the best version of themselves. A part of this approach is developing their resilience, emotional intelligence and logical reasoning in order to foster a growth mindset. Children often have very different reactions to challenges and setbacks they experience. Some … Read More

Some practitioners and sports coaches can occasionally get youth physical development wrong.  We have all heard the fable of the tortoise and the hare in which the moral of the story is;  “Slow and steady wins the race!” Youth physical development is a long, steady process. As teachers and parents, sometimes we are quick to rush individuals in their progress … Read More

Inaugural awards inspires 275 UAE students from the Repton Family of Schools to implement sustainable practices in their daily lives using recyclable natrlTM boxes The first Junior (5 – 9 Years) and Senior (10 – 16 years) natrlTM eco-architects each received AED 10,000 in scholarship prizes and more natrlTM box water, the UAE’s first boxed mineral water brand, successfully concluded … Read More

Creativity is vital to effective teaching and learning and is embedded into all stages and areas of our curriculum at Repton Al Barsha. While engaging with learning in a creative way, children and young people are not passive learners; instead they are exploring, discovering, communicating and creating. Studies show that creativity frees the mind in a way that enables the learner … Read More

Repton Al Barsha integrates fundamentals of game development, database and content management systems into its dynamic curriculum The successful Reptonian-developed games, ‘Detention Disaster’ and ‘Christmas Rescue’ both feature among the top three games on the Fairside Stories application Over the Christmas period, Christmas Rescue was the most played game across the whole application Repton Al Barsha’s successful student-developed games, Detention … Read More

Each and every day, our students – individually and collectively – make their teachers feel proud. From attempting to write their name for the first time to performing brilliantly as a team at a fixture, the fulfilment we take in seeing progress and achievement is part of the reason we are drawn to the profession. This week, our Year 3 … Read More