Dubai: Schools attended by Sheikh Hamdan, Sheikh Maktoum to reopen in autumn 2024

Dubai: Schools attended by Sheikh Hamdan, Sheikh Maktoum to reopen in autumn 2024

Two of Dubai’s historic schools, where even members of royalty have received their education, are set to reopen in autumn 2024.

Rashid School for Boys and Latifa School for Girls were closed in 2020 for redevelopment.

A significant component of the new strategy involves the unification of Rashid School for Boys (RSB) and Latifa School for Girls (LSG) under one umbrella, with a joint-leadership structure and a new shared name: Rashid and Latifa School (RLS).

The newly formed RLS will provide single-gender education to students from Foundation Stage 1 to Year 13, with girls attending classes at the LSG site and boys at the RSB site.

The Rashid and Latifa Schools Establishment, which oversees both institutions, has announced that construction work will commence in autumn, and the schools plan to admit their first pupils 12 months after that.

Located in Nad Al Sheba, two of Dubai’s oldest schools, Latifa School for Girls (LSG) and Rashid School for Boys (RSB), were established in 1982 and 1986, respectively.

LSG offers the British curriculum and the Arabic and Islamic curriculum approved by the education ministry here, while RSB is accredited by British Schools Overseas (BSO) and British Schools in the Middle East (BSME).

Notably, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, the Crown