The Gulf International School

The Gulf International School is a non-selective, co-educational, English medium school. Started in September 2013, GIS aims at nurturing students from Kindergarten to Year 13. The school is home to young people from the local and expatriate communities, thus creating a thriving and multicultural learning environment.

The curriculum is formulated around the British National Curriculum with suitable modifications taking in to consideration an international mix of students and their requirements. The students at GIS are guided by a group of highly accomplished staff, thus providing an extremely engaging and creative teacher – pupil interaction.

The Gulf International School’s future will be shaped by the core values that have defined our past: academic freedom, tolerance, and experimentation. Our Vision is to build a community of young learners who are:

• Confident to be creative, social, analytical, critical and logical.
• Prepared and equipped to meet the opportunities offered in a changing and complex world.
• Driven by a sense of purpose, care and responsibility toward other people and the environment.
• Understanding and respectful of the diversity of traditions in the world while maintaining their own cultural identity and values.

The Gulf International School, Muscat will develop each child into a global citizen, unafraid to dream and build a world they wish to be a part of by:

• Initiating, structuring and developing the learning process.
• Creating student-centred classrooms that cater for each child and foster independent learning.
• Helping young people learn and grow in confidence through experience.
• Inspiring excellence in academics, arts and sports.
• Giving freedom and encouragement to each child’s creativity.
• Nurturing a spirit of team work and friendship.
• Fostering an awareness of our role in the world as humans.
• Building an intergenerational community of teachers, students and their families.

The Gulf International School offers young children the warmth, nurturing and acceptance that lay the foundation of a happy and meaningful life as a student. At the School, the nature and style of the learning process is as important as what is learnt. Young children primarily learn through their senses and their bodies. Keeping this in mind our Kindergarten activities focus on developing social skills, language skills, self-help skills, large and small motor coordination, secure relationships with other children and adults and positive self-image in a rich, play-oriented environment.

Attention is given to each child as a developing individual. Communication between parents and teachers is frequent and meaningful to provide an understanding of the whole child. Each group at the School will have its own classroom or rooms arranged into interest and activity areas appropriate to the child’s development. There is a specially shaded outdoor learning and play area.

The School follows the British Curriculum with suitable modifications taking in to consideration the international mix of students and their requirements. Arabic and Islamic studies are offered to Omani students and for Arab students who opt for the same.