New English School
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| New English School | |
| Ex oriente lux (The light from the East)' |
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| School type | Independent |
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| Established | 1969 |
| Principal | Ms. Siobhan Doran |
| Faculty | approx. 200 |
| Students | over 2000 |
| Mascot | Dhow |
| Founder | Tareq S. Rajab |
| Location | Street 1, Block 12, Jabriya  Kuwait |
| Information | (+965) 531 8060/1 |
| Website | http://www.neskt.com |
The New English School, founded in 1969 by Tareq S. Rajab, is a co-educational British curriculum, English medium school in Kuwait, which caters to children between the ages of 3½ and 18+.
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[edit] Standards
Students at the New English School follow the assessment, grading and examinations of schools in the UK. This includes International GCSE, Cambridge University and GCE Advanced Levels (A-Levels), London University, Edexcel.
[edit] Facilities
The school is housed in purpose-built, centrally air-conditioned accommodation for two departments: Secondary and Primary (Junior, Infant and Kindergarten). The Secondary Department consists of 35 classrooms, 11 fully equipped laboratories for physics, chemistry and biology, a number of specialist geography rooms, 4 specialist computer centres, a specialist music suite, two gymnasia, an audio-visual resources, a sixth form common room and a library containing 20,000 volumes. The Primary Department has 38 classrooms, a library and a specialist music room for each of the Infant and Junior sections and a fully equipped Computer Centre.
The whole school has access to an all-purpose hall and a fully equipped armchair theatre.
A small canteen is located on school grounds.
[edit] Faculty
Teachers of different nationalities are recruited from the United Kingdom.
[edit] Extracurricular Activities
Students can choose from over 42 various clubs, of which horse riding, Model UN and ice-skating are some of the most popular ones.
[edit] Relationship with other schools
Close ties are maintained with the U.K. and with other overseas British and International schools. The school holds memberships in the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) and British Schools in the Middle East (BSME).
[edit] Fees
The New English School tuition fees for the year 2006/2007 range from KWD 1800 to KWD 2600, from Grade 1 to Grade 11 and sixth form (lower sixth and upper sixth).
[edit] Criticisms
- Many classrooms are either too cold or too hot. The equipment used in some of the older classrooms (e.g. blackboards, chairs, desks etc.) are often in an abysmal state.
- While many of the books in the library are new, many are old and in a very bad state. No attempt has been made to repair these old books.
- The canteen sells mostly junk-food at above average prices. Lines are more, often than not, very long, wasting much of the 20/15 minute break times.
- Recently, there have been a number of racist remarks by certain teachers, and complaints have been made against them. However, the school management has done nothing what-so-ever to address this issue, and as a consequence, many students have decided to take matters into their own hands - answering teachers back and arguing for their rights.
- Homeworks issued are usually extremely irritating and may lead to stress among other conditions, as reported by many students.[citation needed]
[edit] Notable Alumni/ae
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