Early Years
FS1 and FS2 · ages 3 to 5
Most of the day is spent choosing. Water, sand, blocks, paint and a garden that is used in every weather except the worst of July. Phonics happens in groups of six, sitting on the floor.
- 18 children, two adults
A school where the day is worth describing.
Compass Grove is a primary school for 410 children in Al Barsha South. English National Curriculum, Arabic taught by specialists, and a fee table you can read on this website without asking anybody for it.
- Curriculum
- English National Curriculum
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Class size
- 18 to 24
- Opened
- 2014
- Languages
- English and Arabic
- Children
- 410
Three stages
Pick the age your child is now.
Each stage has its own timetable, its own class size and its own teachers. All three are published, hour by hour, so you can picture the day rather than take our word for it.
Lower Primary
Years 1 to 3 · ages 5 to 8
Reading gets serious and so does writing. Maths is taught first thing, when the room is at its sharpest, and every class gets twenty-five minutes outside before it.
- 22 children, a teacher and an assistant
Upper Primary
Years 4 to 6 · ages 8 to 11
Specialist teaching starts here: science in a lab, computing on real keyboards, and a Year 6 that leaves able to sit an entrance test without being coached for one all year.
- 24 children, a teacher and subject specialists
The fees
On the website, by year group.
Term fees from AED 9,900 in FS1 to AED 14,600 in Year 6, with the registration, assessment and deposit named separately. No enquiry required to see a number.
| Year group | Per term | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| FS1 | AED 9,900 | AED 29,700 |
| FS2 | AED 10,900 | AED 32,700 |
| Year 1 | AED 12,300 | AED 36,900 |
| Year 2 | AED 12,300 | AED 36,900 |
| Year 3 | AED 13,400 | AED 40,200 |
From the head teacher
Sarah Kellerman
Head teacher since 2019
Parents ask me two questions on every tour. Will my child be known by name, and will they be pushed. In a school of 410 the first one is a promise I can keep, and the second is a matter of teaching maths when children are awake rather than when the timetable happens to have a gap.
Come on a Tuesday morning, in term time, when the school is doing what it normally does. Nobody tidies up for a tour here.
Life here
Football on Tuesday, choir on Monday, gardening on Thursday.
Eight clubs, a hot lunch cooked in our own kitchen, and a trip every term from Year 1 upwards. This is the page your child will scroll, so it has photographs of this school rather than of a stock one.
What parents say
We moved here in Year 3 from a much bigger school. Within a fortnight she was being asked about the book she was reading, by name, by a teacher who was not hers.
The fees were on the website. That is genuinely why we came for a tour here first and not somewhere else, and I say that as someone who spent a month emailing schools for numbers.
My son does football twice a week and gardening on Thursday and talks about both the whole way home. I did not expect gardening.
Come and see
Tours run every school morning at 09:00.
Street 14, Al Barsha South 2PO Box 44120Dubai, United Arab EmiratesOffice hours
- Sunday to Thursday07:30 – 15:30
- SaturdayTours by appointment
- FridayClosed