Welcome
to Aspen Heights British School
High quality British education with a focus on the community and environment, located in Al Bahya, Abu Dhabi.
Aspen Heights British School is a wonderful school in Abu Dhabi providing a personalised, high quality British education with a unique focus on the local community and environment.
A member of the International Schools Partnership, Aspen Heights British School was founded in September 2017 and offers the National Curriculum of England for children from Nursery to Year 9 (age 3 to 14), with Year 10 opening September 2021, and growing one year per academic year.
Aspen Heights British School is privileged to have a wealth of world-class, brand new facilities, and our spacious campus has been built keeping nature in mind. Our environmental focus provides children with unique hands-on opportunities to appreciate and interact with their local environment.
Aspen Heights British School is very much like a village school – our close relationships with our families and the community is what sets us apart from many other schools in Abu Dhabi, and our Amazing Learning results mean we’re fast becoming one of the best schools in Abu Dhabi.
Express your love for the UAE through poetry, for a chance to win a scholarship at our school. Enter the competition now!
Why Choose Aspen Heights British School
Native English-speaking teachers
Our teachers are native English speakers, bringing with them many years of international school experience.
High quality international British curriculum
Fun, engaging, relevant, memorable and highly effective learning experiences. Enquiry-based learning programme enables children to develop confidence.
Positive and welcoming school ethos and a strong sense of community.
Our school resembles a lovely ‘village school’. We believe children learn best when they’re happy and secure in a stimulating and welcoming environment.
Focus on the local environment
We focus on nature with unique features such as a hydroponics greenhouse where children learn to cultivate their own fruit and vegetables, and animals such as tortoises, fish and chickens.
Impressive facilities
As a new school, we are privileged to have a wide range of world-class facilities, with bespoke-designed playgrounds, gardens, wooden ‘trim-trails’ and climbing equipment, a 25m swimming pool, a gymnasium, and an astro-turf sports pitch.
Amazing learning is central to everything we do.
Our personalised provision ensures that children make remarkable progress and achieve standards that will amaze you.
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FS1 TO YEAR 10
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We are part of the International Schools Partnership (ISP), a global group of 48 schools, which ensures outstanding international learning connections, quality assurance and excellent governance.
At ISP, learning is at the heart of everything we do, and we want to continually provide the best learning opportunities possible for our students and their families. We believe that as part of our students’ learning journey it is important that they have the chance to experience learning outside of the classroom and connect with other ISP students. As a global group of schools, our students benefit from being part of a wider international community, which provides many additional learning and cultural opportunities.
World-Class Campus and Facilities
UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES
Such as a hydroponics greenhouse and animals, providing unique, hands-on learning experiences to enhance and embed classroom learning.
EXCELLENT SPORTS & PLAY FACILITIES
Including a gymnasium, a 25m swimming pool, an astro-turf sports pitch, multi-spots court, bespoke-designed playgrounds, gardens, wooden ‘trim-trails’ and climbing equipment.
DIGITAL LEARNING & ICT
We have Chromebooks for every child from Year 1 upwards, technology including iPads and tablets, and control technology such as remote control devices in daily use in our FS classes. We are also a Google for Education school.
MUSIC & THE ARTS
Our well-equipped music and art facilities encourage young artists and musicians of all abilities to get involved and build their self-confidence, imagination and creative skills. Specialist music teachers ensure all children have the opportunity to learn the instrument of their choice.
LATEST NEWS
Leading by Example at Aspen Heights British School
When given the chance to share exactly what Aspen Heights British School does to nurture leadership, especially in young female students, Principal Emma Shanahan was very happy to do so. “As a leadership team at Aspen Heights British School, we grasped this...
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‘Dear me’: Why these UAE students write letters to their future self
Earlier this academic year we asked our community to share letters for their future selves, as part of our “Writing Letters for Tomorrow” campaign. Friday Magazine has published some letters from our students, parents and teachers.
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ISP Invites Students to Share Their Love for the UAE Through Poetry
To celebrate World Poetry Day, the International Schools Partnership (ISP) has launched a student Poetry Contest across the UAE. The group, which has four schools in the country - The Aquila School and Nibras International School in Dubai, as well as Aspen Heights...
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We are part of a global group of schools
We are truly international working in partnerships within and across regions, cultures and languages.
Students learn in ways that amaze them, and you
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