3 Ways to Help Your Teen Manage School Stress Academic Pressure for teenagers today is an insurmountable, necessary evil. To beat fierce competition and surpass mediocrity to reach new levels of excellence is an everyday hurdle.  A hurdle that needs to be conquered, in the course of which they build a strong foundation for their...

5 Reasons to Teach Children to Read Aloud Teaching children to read aloud is important to their development not only as readers but also as overall individuals as it helps children practise and develop a variety of sub-skills. Reading out loud is more than just asking a child to stand up and read in front of...

How Learning Foreign Languages Affects the Overall Growth of the Student There are some clear-cut benefits to learning a new language, but new research shows that these benefits extend well beyond the familiarization with a new culture through the spoken word. So how and why does learning foreign languages affect the brains of those who...

Bringing Life to Education – Benjamin Atkins Our Teachers Don’t Just Teach. They Inspire! Inspirational teaching creates learning experiences that last a lifetime.  At Fortes Education’s schools – Regent International School, Sunmarke School and the Jumeirah International Nursery Schools – we select our teachers not only for their teaching skills, but for their ability to spark the...

Bringing Life to Education – Harvey Trump Our Teachers Don’t Just Teach. They Inspire! Inspirational teaching creates learning experiences that last a lifetime.  At Fortes Education’s schools – Regent International School, Sunmarke School and the Jumeirah International Nursery Schools – we select our teachers not only for their teaching skills,but for their ability to spark the...

Bringing Life to Education – Allen Bird Our Teachers Don’t Just Teach. They Inspire! Inspirational teaching creates learning experiences that last a lifetime.  At Fortes Education’s schools – Regent International School, Sunmarke School and the Jumeirah International Nursery Schools – we select our teachers not only for their teaching skills,but for their ability to spark the...

Third Culture Children According to many sources and researchers the term “third culture kid” was a term first used by researchers John and Ruth Useem in the 1950s, to describe the children of American citizens working and living abroad and their children who were raised outside the culture in which their parents had grown up...

We’re moving abroad – should we take the children or leave them at boarding school? Prior to becoming a Head, my experience as a boarding housemaster and as a manager of boarding houses has given me a first-hand understanding of the trials and tribulations of this conundrum. Leaving your child at a boarding school is...

Reading To Kids Does Good to Their Brains Biologically, Research Finds The number of books a child has available in their home is strongly linked to their academic success in school. Specifically, studies show the more books in the home, the better those children do in school. It made a lot of sense to me...

Solid Advice On Achieving A High Standard Of Personal Growth Trying to grow through personal development may seem like a daunting task. The trick towards effective personal development is to discover the methods that work for you. All individuals are unique, and different things work for different people. There are always tips, like these, that...