Hartland International School
Hartland International School
Hartland International School is a co-educational British curriculum school in Sobha Hartland, Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City, Dubai, for children aged 3 to 18, from FS1 to Year 13. It opened in September 2015, its proprietor is Meraki Group, and Fiona Cottam has been principal since 2016. Children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage and then the National Curriculum for England, with GCSEs and IGCSEs in Years 10 and 11 and, in the Sixth Form, 26 A level subjects and BTEC International Level 3 courses, alongside the UAE Ministry of Education subjects. KHDA rated the school Very Good in its November 2023 inspection, as in 2022-23 and 2019-20 (Good in 2017-18 and 2018-19), with wellbeing, inclusion and the National Agenda also Very Good, and Education Development Trust's British Schools Overseas inspection of April 2025 judged it an outstanding school. It holds High Performance Learning's World Class School status, awarded in May 2025, and Optimus Education's SEND Inclusion Award, valid to April 2028. The BSO report counted 2,009 pupils of over 107 nationalities in April 2025; the school's 2026 job adverts give just over 2,200. Facilities include a 25 m temperature-controlled pool and a Foundation Stage training pool, a theatre, a professional recording studio and music rooms, a design technology suite with 3-D design, food technology and textiles rooms, a dance studio, primary and secondary libraries and a Sixth Form common room.
Fees read from the school's published 2026-27 fee schedule; KHDA rating from its 2023-24 inspection report. Last checked 25 September 2026. How Talem verifies →
Fees for 2026/2027, per year group. Excludes registration, uniform, and transport.
Tuition is the school's published 2026-27 fee for new families, which is also the KHDA-approved fee. KHDA's fact sheets record that the school asked for no increase for 2026-27, after a 2.35% increase for 2025-26, so the figures are the same as in 2025-26. Families with a child enrolled in or before 2024-25 pay a lower rate, AED 44,346 in FS1 to AED 84,366 in Year 13, which the school lists among its discounts. The fee includes the enrichment programme of over 150 activities and clubs (not those run by third-party providers), the primary instrumental music programme, EAL and SEND support, and gifted and talented provision; GCSE and A level examination fees are charged separately.
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KHDA 2023–2024 inspection
FS1 and FS2 follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum from England across its seven areas of learning, through enquiry-based, child-initiated and play-based learning with direct teacher-led activities. Arabic is part of the Foundation Stage curriculum, with elements of moral education and social studies. KHDA's November 2023 inspection judged children's progress in English and their learning skills outstanding.
Years 1 and 2 follow the National Curriculum for England, with a strong emphasis on phonics, concrete materials in mathematics and enquiry-based science. Specialist teachers teach music, art, PE, swimming and Arabic from Year 1, and Islamic education is taught to Muslim pupils.
Years 3 to 6 continue the National Curriculum for England with specialist teachers for art, design technology, computing, drama, PE, modern foreign languages and music. French or Spanish is taught in Year 3, and French, Spanish, German or Mandarin in Years 4 to 6; music is taught through an instrument-based curriculum.
Years 7 to 9 follow the National Curriculum for England with a wider international dimension, taught by subject specialists. Students study two modern foreign languages from French, Spanish, German, Italian and Mandarin and specialise in one in Year 9, when a dedicated programme guides their GCSE choices.
Students typically take between 9 and 11 GCSEs and IGCSEs, examined by UK boards and, in some subjects, international ones. The core is English language and literature, mathematics and science (combined, or separate sciences using one option), with Arabic compulsory for non-Arab students to the end of Year 10, Islamic education for Muslim students, PE, and moral, social and cultural studies. At the end of Year 10 students do a week of work experience.
The 2026-28 options booklet offers 26 A level subjects (business and economics as Edexcel International A levels) and BTEC International Level 3 courses in business, sport and travel and tourism. Most students take three A levels, some four, alongside the Extended Project Qualification, the Hartland Diploma (seven strands, up to 50 credits, awarded at Gold, Silver or Bronze) and the VESPA programme. Education Development Trust's April 2025 BSO inspection judged the leadership and management of the sixth form outstanding.
Science laboratories, including new laboratories added in the school's phased development since 2022 (BSO, April 2025); primary classes have their own laboratory (COBIS, 2018).
An ICT suite. Computing is taught by specialists in Key Stage 2, and computational thinking starts in Year 1.
A design technology suite including a 3-D design laboratory, a food technology room and a textiles room. Design technology is taught by specialists from Year 3.
A food technology room within the design technology suite.
Dedicated libraries in both the primary and the secondary school to support research and study, run by a librarian and assistant librarians; the April 2025 BSO report found them well stocked with fiction and non-fiction.
A 25 m temperature-controlled swimming pool for students in Year 1 and above. Swimming is part of the primary PE curriculum.
A training pool for Foundation Stage children, who also have their own changing facilities.
A multi-purpose gym room.
Principal and Acting Head of Secondary
Principal since 2016, after a successful tenure at GEMS Education; she has worked in Dubai since 2009. A graduate of UCD in classical music and English with a BA, HDip, MA and NPQH, and FCCT. An elected Director and Treasurer of COBIS and vice-chair of the British International Schools Safeguarding Coalition, representing BSME.
Vice Principal and Head of Primary
Deputy Head of Secondary, Whole School
Deputy Head of Secondary, Academics
Deputy Head of Secondary, Pastoral
Deputy Head of Primary, Pastoral
Deputy Head of Primary, Academics
Assistant Head (Whole School), Student and Staff Experience
Assistant Head (Whole School), Director of Arabic and Islamic Education
Assistant Head (Whole School), Head of Inclusion
Assistant Head of Secondary, Head of Sixth Form (Student Pathways)
Assistant Head of Secondary, Student Culture
Assistant Head of Secondary, Student Achievement
Assistant Head of Primary, Student Achievement
Assistant Head of Primary, Student Culture
Assistant Head of Primary, Student Achievement
Assistant Head of Primary, Student Culture
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Sobha Hartland, Nad Al Sheba, Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City, Dubai, UAE
