Al-Worood School

Al-Worood is in its twenty-third year of serving the local and international communities in Abu Dhabi. It is an English medium, co-educational, private day school with 2,092 pupils, offering education from nursery to Grade 12. The school is licensed and inspected by the UAE Ministry of Education and is a fully accredited K-12 member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and CITA. It is also a member of the College Board and NESA. The school is a centre for Edexcel (London Examinations) GCE ‘AS’ and ‘A’ level examinations and UCLES IGCSE. Students also sit TOEFL, SAT and PSAT.

In Grades 1 to 6 at Al-Worood School the curriculum includes art, music, PE and computer. At the end of Grade 10 students take examinations in seven or eight IGCSE subjects: mathematics, English, biology, chemistry, physics, Arabic or French, plus one or two subjects chosen from computer studies, accounting and business studies. At the end of Grade 12 students at Al-Worood school normally sit GCE ‘A’ level examinations in three subjects: mathematics, chemistry, and either biology or physics. Successful Grade 12 students are also awarded a High School Diploma. There are High School sections in Grades 9 to 12 for those students who do not wish to sit the British examinations. Graduates have been admitted to degree courses at universities worldwide. These universities include Dundee (Medicine), LSE, King’s College London, UMIST, Oxford-Brookes (Architecture), University College London, Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Vanderbilt, MIT, McGill, Toronto, TCD, RCSI and Western Australia. A number have been awarded scholarships and sophomore standing.

The Al-Worood school offers a programme of educational and cultural visits, and numerous school events. Sports include soccer, basketball, table tennis and karate. More detailed information is available on the school’s own website and at: www.ces-msa.org.