GCSE Pod: A new learning resource for Key Stage 4 Students GCSEPod is now available at Sunmarke School! GCSEPod’s website and application provide high quality, focused learning in a unique ‘Pod’ format across 20 popular GCSE and iGCSE subjects, all of which are filtered by examination boards. Sunmarke’s Year 10 and 11 students can use...

The UAE’s Educational Influencers 2018 Keith Miller, Executive Principal, of Sunmarke School, was featured in WhichSchoolAdvisor.com as one of the “Most Influential People” in the education in the UAE in 2017.   Keith has led Sunmarke into the top ten schools in the academic league tables in the UAE with the school achieving “outstanding” GCSE...

The 2018 edition of the World Scholar’s Cup is being hosted at Sunmarke School 23rd March 2018 The World Scholar’s Cup (WSC) 2018, a global education event that attracts over 900 students participating as teams from different schools from over 50 countries will be hosted for the second year running by Sunmarke School. All students...

Dr. Abdulla Al Karam, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of KHDA visited Sunmarke Dr. Abdulla Al Karam, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) visited Sunmarke today on the occasion of International Happiness Day. He met students who told him about...

No More Selfies: A Parents Perspective on Social Media I was chatting with friends recently and an interesting question came up: How is social media benefitting our children? Clearly, with such rampant worldwide use of social media by our kids and most adults, there must be some benefit to it. However, I really had to...

Raising Independent Children The greatest goal of parenting is surely to raise children who are happy and self-reliant. Of course, when your children are very young – they rely on you for getting around, food, protection and support. However, as your children grow up – they will depend on you less. Here are 2 important...

Tough Teen Topics: Alcohol “Tough Teen Topics” – From the desk of the Counsellors at SMS, we want to begin dialogue about challenging issues that face teens around the world, and especially in the UAE. Often due to cultural and legal issues, we avoid talking about some topics to prevent offense. However, we believe education for both parents...

Restorative Parenting – Tips & Advice As parents, we’ve all had that moment. With my daughter, it was when she was one-and-a-half years old. After my stern warning not to throw the sand, we locked eyes, and for that brief second, we both knew that she had heard my warning and had understood it. I...

‘Tis the season for exam preparation Exam season is approaching which could mean the excitement is building up at home and at school. For many families, there is always that little bit of stress that starts to circulate in the air just about now because although the winter holidays are almost here we need to...

Understanding Anxiety in Children Both anxiety and stress are internalised emotions which we all experience due to difficult situations, which normally passes after the difficult situation has passed. However, on the other hand anxiety disorder is more serve and acute form of fear and distress about potential harm or misfortune. There are different types of...