The first environment-friendly school in the Middle East is to be built in Dubailand.
Owned by Taaleem, which also runs Dubai British School and Uptown School, among others, it will take children from nursery to grade 12. The first phase of students, from kindergarten to grade six, will start in September 2009.
It will have a teacher-training college with accommodation and boarding facilities for students on site, which, at 2.7 million sq ft, will be one of the largest school campuses in the region when it is fully completed in 2012.
The campus, which is yet to be named, will have an amphitheatre, a performing arts school, multiple sports pitches, a swimming pool and a mosque.
The school fits in perfectly with the green building initiative announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. But Sadru Damji, Taaleem’s academic development director, says the project was conceived long before the order came into effect in January this year.
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