Extra Curricular

Exploring talents

Physical Education

Children experience many areas of activity including games, dance, athletics, swimming, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Basketball and other outdoor activities.

Emphasis is placed on the value of exercise as a means of enjoyment as well as promoting a healthy way of life.

Participating in team games is encouraged in order to develop appropriate social skills. We participate in Inter-School tournaments and competitions.

To provide a full range of facilities for physical education, the school has hired the facilities available at a nearby club. “Our Own” has an established reputation for sporting achievement.

Guides
A perfect package of mental and physical activities that contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, and social potential as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of the local, national and international communities. Under the able guidance of competent teachers, students are given training to ‘be prepared’ to face the challenges of life.
Public Speaking
Public speaking involves "learning by doing." Students are trained to give short demonstration speeches beginning in primary grades and progressing through high school. Their oral communication techniques are refined and retooled as they gain more experience through debate and elocution.

Visual Arts

We pride ourselves on providing a wide platform for students’ artistic and creative energies. We help to channel creativity and imagination as a means of self-expression, through a series of art competitions and talent shows held throughout the year. The fine quality of Art at “Our Own” is in evidence in the department and is on display around the school. Students gain genuine fulfilment by expressing themselves in drawing, painting, three-dimensional work, and other media.

Environment Club

The broad aim of the Environment Club is to inculcate a sense of respect and responsibility towards the environment and build awareness among all age groups. The club realizes that skills have to be developed in young children by which they can bring about a change in the existing state of the environment. Though formal education has an important role to play, when it comes to environmental education, the teaching and learning process is done through a 'fun-and-learn' method, thereby generating a genuine interest for the subject in young minds.

Performing Arts

Our students are engaged in various performing arts. These include musicals, cultural performances, dances, elocution and drama.

Music is developed through vocal and instrumental skills-based activities contributing to the school's characteristically energetic and outgoing ethos. There are plenty of opportunities for children of all ages to participate in choirs and ensembles.

Over the years, we have help mould students with exceptional theatrical talents and presence of mind on stage. The opportunity to perform is given an excellent foundation at Our Own where large scale productions are staged at least twice a year.

Students learn to develop a deep appreciation for different forms and various expressions of art and culture and gain self-confidence and poise.

Overnight Camps

The camps provide older students an opportunity to gain respect and love for nature and teach them how to be environmentally responsible. They also learn to preserve and protect our natural resources and wildlife. Camps are organized periodically to also foster a spirit of adventure.

Beyond Curriculum

Mentoring

Pupils are attached to designated mentors to monitor progress and extend advice wherever needed.

Workshops
Special workshops are organised in various subjects every year taking the students beyond the classroom and into more comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of the subject. Under the supervision and guidance of the teachers, students themselves help in the organising and conducting of these workshops.

Olympiads
Our students in large numbers participate every year in the Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Science Olympiads organised by the Council of CBSE schools in the Gulf. These Olympiads help in giving students the competitive edge and bringing out their talents.

Educational Trips
Travel expands the horizon of knowledge. The school conducts field trips and outings that provide interesting, fun filled and educative experiences for the students. These educational trips allow students to experience hands-on activities that they learn about in books, bringing lessons to life thus allowing them to get acquainted with real life situations.

The school also provides students opportunities to travel outside UAE as a part of their educational trips. In the last years students have visited
1. Sultanate of Oman
2. Malaysia
3. Egypt.

Children for Children and ‘Youth & Youth’ Programs to educate our students with the GEMS core values a programme called ‘children for children’ and ‘Y2Y’ are conducted. In the children for children programme high achievers in Grade XI stay back twice a week to help the students in Grade V &VI. Every year nearly 40 to 50 students in the middle school take advantage of this programme.

In the ‘Y2Y’ programme, Senior students mentor their own classmates and follow up on their learning.