Delhi Private School, Dubai


Delhi Private School, Dubai is a CBSE curriculum, private, co-educational day school located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was earlier run by the Delhi Public School Society. However, it is no longer associated with the Delhi Public School Society as the it officially ended in May 2018.

Fees

The yearly fees of the school range from Dhs. 10,439 to Dhs. 14,474 depending upon the grade.

History

The school was a co-education school from grades KG1 to Grade 4 till 2014. It was converted to a complete co-education school in 2014.

Culture

Languages such as French and Arabic are taught in addition to Indian languages. Students are taught to respect other cultures and encounter other cultures via educational trips.

Scholar Badge

The school, at the end of each academic year, gives a Scholar Badge to students of Grade V and above, for achieving an overall grade of A2 and a grade point average of 8.6 any upgrades.

Special awards

Some special awards are given for high achievers.
Students who achieve the Scholar Badge for three or more years are awarded Blue Blazer, Blue Badge, Blue Tie or Gold Medal. Furthermore, the school offers additional awards to consistent achievers in the field of academics and those who provide valuable contributions to the school such as the Pro-Vice Chairman's Cup, Principal's Award and the Spirit of D.P.S. Dubai.

Campus

This campus is located outside the main city, in The Gardens. The school buildings today comprise five computer labs, a physics lab, a biology lab, a chemistry lab, a maths lab, language labs, four libraries, two auditoriums, a basketball court, a cricket ground, a multi-sports complex, an rectangle field for many sports, two cafeterias and two clinics, one for boys and one for girls. They recently added a tennis court managed by tennis coaches.
The school is divided into 5 blocks:-
They have sister schools in Sharjah & Ras Al khaimah

Extra-curricular activities

Excursions and field trips

The school organizes field trips for students to nearby places of interest in Dubai and Sharjah, like Safa Park, The Dubai Mall, Ferrari World, Dubai Dolphinarium, Sega Republic, and IMG Worlds of Adventure. It also organizes excursions to countries such as Egypt, United States, United Kingdom, China, Nigeria, and Pakistan for senior students.

Clubs

The school has many clubs depending on the grade. Students from Grades 6 to 8 can enjoy Mathalon, Muses Mantra, Dance, Singing, Eureka, and many more clubs that are then presented on their Annual Day.
Students of Grades 9 and 11 can enjoy all the clubs that grades 6 to 8 have with a few more like photography, movie making etc.

Environmental operations

The school has three recycling bins, located in the Primary and Seniors' Blocks. The collected materials are given to Emirates Environmental Group for recycling. The school also actively participates in can-collection drives, clean-up drives, awareness campaigns and environmental education.

Sports

has teams for cricket, football, volleyball, swimming, basketball, athletics, table tennis and badminton, gymnastics at different age levels. The team also practices before school hours. DPS is an all-rounder, winning many trophies in the field of sports.

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The School has 2 MUN's called IHMUN and MUN@DPSD.

IHMUN

IHMUN takes place for three days in the school usually on Wednesday and Thursday and Saturday in the morning at many venues. The Chairs and Co-Chairs are only from DPSD and also organize the function for the school. The IHMUN on its final day has a crisis situation where all the committees gather in one place to help calm a crisis situation in the world.

MUN@DPSD

MUN@DPSD usually takes place on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday at many venues like in IHMUN. Usually MUN@DPSD continues the topics and discussions from IHMUN at DPSD. The chairs and co-chairs are from schools participating in the conference and from DPSD. Every year DPS invites different schools to come and participate. Delhi Private School, Sharjah, St.Joseph School, Our Own Indian School, Dubai, Indian High School and many more schools have participated in this event in the past few years.