About British 麻花视频 School Riyadh (BISR)
The British 麻花视频 School Riyadh is at the heart of the British Community in Riyadh, providing education to some 1500 boys and girls.
We have 55 nationalities in the school and prepare our students for life in a complex and interdependent world.
BISR is an extremely well-regarded not-for-profit, five-campus, co-educational school in the Middle East, catering for students aged 3-18, providing high quality education to the expatriate community since 1979. We, the students, parents, teachers and community of BISR, provide a caring, safe and stimulating environment where we strive to make every student feel valued, happy and successful.
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4 to 18
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The most frustrating thing for me is lack of discipline and consequences for kids who bully, are racist and disruptive. Time and time again I hear the same complaint from other parents. Families leave because of the issues and the school just plucks another kid from the wait list charging 30,000 SAR just to join. They actually make more money when victims are turned over so clearly its not worth the effort of enforcing bad behaviour.
BISR management has little regard for parents aside having them pay fees . Complaints are not addressed and frankly dangerous student behaviour is brushed under the carpet. Do not expect British standard discipline or manners. The Al Hamra campus resembles an run down juvenile correction facility but the wardens, sorry teachers, have no power over those students who continually offend with the current governance and management.
The school has extremely poor teachers and getting a good teacher is like winning the lottery. Administrators are rude and disrespectful and a lot of the teachers and headmistress are racist, Islam a phobic and homophobic. The way the school runs is incompetent, school starts in less than a week and the timetables published have gaps (the teacher was written as unknown) and the school posted a insta story saying they were looking for a new teacher - keep in mind this was a few days before school starts. The headmistress said there was going to be new uniform but has not yet released it (similar thing happened last year and for the first half of the year no one had correct uniform). The school in itself if the level of a public school in the uk, which does not at all justify the ever increasing price. This year the school fees increase and the teachers salary has been cut so they can build a new school (I find this extremely annoying as it will be finished in 5 years once the majority of those paying have already graduated).
The school exists purely for teachers to make money. As recruitment and retention is so difficult in the country teachers definitely come first - so great if you're a teacher, less so as a student or family who come a definite second. While many of the teachers are genuinely nice people the attitude of the school is very much that they have a captive audience so they can charge and act how they wish, and any British/English speaking children are used to market the school and help other nationalities.
The schools vision is unclear and there is poor communication about finances and strategic plans. The fees are higher than other much more well regarded schools in the region. What is the most telling is many teachers and board members educate their own children elsewhere, the Principal of the school is unmarried and childless and the new Head of Primary has arrived without his family. Not really "doing it for the kids " in my opinion.
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, 2 months ago
The school is really good. The teachers are really friendly and very fun. Lovely classes and a great experience for me. Excited to come back and see my friends.
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, 2 months ago
The school is really good. The teachers are really friendly and very fun. Lovely classes and a great experience for me. Excited to come back and see my friends.
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, a month ago
My best 10 years spent in this school
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, 4 months ago
From years R-8, this school is fine. But after that, it's time to take your qualifications seriously and move your final years of education elsewhere. In the nine years that I was here, the education superseded the schools in England. Some teachers lack interpersonal skills and act like machines. I still remember all of their names and the dumb things they did, like give me a detention for mistakes they've made but were unwilling to admit it. However, returning to England made me realise how much worse it is there. I was in all the middle sets at BISR, but when I returned home I was suddenly the smartest kid in the year. This school takes bullying a lot more seriously than other schools, except when the teachers do it themselves. From my experience, they handled bullying. But false accusations are also taken seriously, some students in my time picked up on it and would do this to others. There's also students and teachers who shouldn't be here; a handful of lowlives from around the world attend this school; British, Arabic, Australian, whatever. You're forced to take part in sports days and swimming galas. Waste of a school day, why shouldn't I be absent from these? I'd have been more productive staying at home.
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, 6 months ago
My son got beaten up on the third day of school by a few bullies, he says he didn鈥檛 do anything to them. He also complained about the teachers being late and sometimes not even attending lessons. When I tried addressing the issues with the principal, he kept on making excuses like I am not available because of this or that etc. As soon as the first semester ended, I moved him to AIS-R. My son says he is much more happy there.