GIS is a school which celebrates its internationalism and global values, the diversity and broad range of nationalities of its families and staff. We want our students to follow our culture of Respect, Trust and Ambition. It was therefore so pleasing to watch a video and read an article created by the Emirates News Agency (WAM), which featured solely GIS children, talking about tolerance and the importance of diversity.

My special thanks to media expert and GIS parent, Ms Nancy Emile, who suggested the idea, and Mr Renan de Souza from WAM, for spending time with our incredible young people. In Mr Renan’s words, ‘To celebrate the International Day of Tolerance on November 16th, we are producing stories to show the world how diverse the UAE is. My project especially is to show the diversity in classrooms across the UAE. The idea is to write about how foreign and local kids learn from each other in international schools in the UAE and from different curriculums. The main point is to show the concept of diversity from the early stages of life and the UAE as a global community in education.’

We are very proud of all the students involved in the video and article which you can read HERE.