Our Family Adventure with SABIS

” January 2012 Dear Sir In August 2009 my wife, daughter and I embarked on our adventure to the UAE. Having secured positions with SABIS as advisors for the PPP Project, we were filled with excitement but also fear and trepidation. We were leaving our support structures and comforts of our home in South Africa. [...]

International School of Choueifat Al Ain

This is an extract form a recent article posted on http://www.alainenthusiast.com ; Our first choice for schooling was the Al Ain English Speaking School, but by the time we booked in the summer of 2009 there were no places for our boys, so we signed them up at our second choice, the Choueifat School in [...]

International School of Choueifat Al Ain-A happy mother

Dear Mr. Eid, First of all, allow me to congratulate you for the amazing reputation that the KG department has. Before moving to Al Ain, I was concerned with the decision of which school shall I put my daughter Mariada in. After asking around, I was informed by many people that the KG staff and [...]

Jolanta Duggan-English Teacher (MHS AL AIN)

Having taught English for over thirteen years in European schools, I was initially surprised at the rigidity of the SABIS® System teaching methodology here in the Middle East. This method was something completely new and took a little time to get used to. The weekly workload was also quite high, which required thorough lesson preparation [...]

Couples who met in SABIS

When I was in SABIS school X for those memorable years of my life I recall so many couples who came to the region single, met in the school and later married. I have kept in contact with many of them and I find it fascinating to watch how their lives have evolved with their mixture of cultures, [...]

Justin’s experience

I applied to teach in the Emirates after I finished my final year in college, because I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with my life and thank goodness I did! The people I have met, the lifestyle I live and the different opportunities that are now available to me have made the [...]

Deirdre’s experience

I arrived in The UAE in August of 2006 having been recruited from University College Dublin. I had just finished my Higher Diploma in Education and was eager to acquire a full time position as a teacher although not in Ireland. I wanted to travel and using my qualifications was also very important to me. [...]

Maria’s Experience

I came to  in August of 2000, to take up a position as an English teacher at the International School of Choueifat in . Almost seven years later, I can look back at my time here with a sense of pride and achievement. I am a thirty year old Irish woman, and graduated from University [...]