Gulf Indian High School (GIHS)

Gulf Indian High School has wonderful students, supportive parents and community members, dedicated staff members and highly competent leaders who work together every day to ensure that apart from everyday teaching and learning, Safety, Innovation, Happiness and Positivity remain cornerstones of our success.

Gulf Indian High School has a solid reputation in providing effective academic programs to its students. In all that we do, we place the needs of each of our students at the heart of our work. Hence, we have been successful in fostering academic excellence. We strive to develop the next generation of responsible global citizens, lifelong learners and innovative leaders.

Education is not merely acquirement of facts but also of values and skills which help us improve the different facets of mankind. It ensures that we leave the world a far better place than we found it. A pivotal role of education lies in shaping the personality of a child into a healthy mind and happy soul, who is not only equipped with 21st-century skills and aptitude required for academic excellence but helping him face the challenges of life in a balanced and harmonious way. Therefore, the system of education should work as a catalyst in making each child a balanced human being having his core strengths embedded in the learning experiences emanating from our rich socio-cultural roots.

In Gulf Indian High School, we enterprise to map the academic excellence with a good human value system, which in myriad ways is ingrained in the culture of the school. To achieve this, we strongly feel that a paradigm shift in the minds of all stake holders should take place so that when the school becomes the hub to initiate and formalise education it has its tenets enshrined in a good value system; the extension of which is thereby taken home where it is further strengthened. And our commitment to such education will always persist in all our endeavours.

In GIHS we believe in this principle and will never leave any stone unturned to see that all the innate potentials of the child are tapped to the fullest extent. In this pursuit of excellence, We appreciate our parent fraternity for supporting the school in every aspect. We also laud the relentless efforts of our teachers for giving their best in bringing out the best in each child. But we would exhort the students to be always modest, humble and disciplined while being ready to expand the horizons of their knowledge and skills by dreaming big and working hard.

Fired by a desire to light the lamp of education, Mr. John M. Thomas, the founder and chairman, started the school in 1979 with only 200 students and 35 teachers, the goal was crystal clear – we wanted to partner in the educational sector of Dubai by offering value-based education that will in turn contribute to the growth of this city.

An African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child”. That simple statement, yet so profound in its wisdom is one of the cornerstones of Gulf Indian High School’s (GIHS) ethos. Education is the key to UAE’s future success in an increasingly globalized economy. With education emerge qualified human resources to turn the engines of the nation’s prosperity.

Today, we have grown over ten-fold in sheer numbers, supported by a sprawling 35,000 sq ft campus in Al Garhoud. We take pride in imparting values that will prepare the students for life. We aim to train children to develop an interest and love for learning.

Even as we grew in size, the basic focus towards education has remained unchanged. We continue to be the ‘big village’ that raises ‘every single child’. As always, we remain committed to the all-round development of children. It is more than a commitment – it is our responsibility to parents and the society, to groom responsible global citizens, who can benefit from the opportunities while meeting the challenges of the modern world.

We will remain steadfast in our mission towards excellence and prepare our students for a bright future. It is our duty and we will honor it.