Qatar International School

Qatar International School is one of the First British schools in Qatar and was founded by the Owner Sheikh Ali bin Ahmed bin Thani Al Thani and the first Principal, Mrs Griffin in 1977.

The school’s purpose built campus is located in the Diplomatic Quarter of Dafna, flanking the impressive skyscrapers and business centre of West Bay. The school continues to thrive, expanding and developing its excellent specialist facilities, which include ICT suites, science laboratories, a swimming pool, playing field, and 2 large sports hall.

The Qatar National School’s Accreditation programme offered them the highest possible grading in 2015 from when they were inspected and certified for 5 years. QIS recently became the first and only school in the Middle East to be accredited to deliver OLEVI training courses straight from the UK, such as “The Outstanding Teacher’s Programme.” In 2016 they hosted the first tour of Qatar by Sir John Jones and later the same year they were awarded full BSO status (British School Overseas) by the UK Government following an excellent inspection in October.

The school is led and managed entirely by UK trained professionals and it strives to maintain the highest standards of the current English Education system. They are also supporting its Arabic culture and are adept at integrating students from a wide variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. Their student body is truly international, with over 60 different nationalities represented within the current cohort.

Kids are trained in Key Stages from early Years - KS1 through to KS5 and examinations are taken in IGCSE, GCSE and A Levels using UK examination boards. The vast majority of students trained in QIS move onto Higher Education in outstanding universities all over the world but most especially the UK, USA, Canada and UAE itself.