The long-standing collaboration continues to broaden opportunities for pupils at RGS Dubai.
Dubai: Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai (RGS Dubai) has renewed its partnership with ISD Dubai Sports City for a further seven years, extending a successful collaboration that has played a key role in the school’s sporting development since its opening in 2021.
The agreement reinforces ISD Dubai’s ongoing commitment to supporting school and community sport, backed by its state-of-the-art facilities and broad provision for grassroots sporting activities.
ISD’s world-class infrastructure continues to offer an exceptional environment for participation, development, and performance across a range of sports.
Through the partnership, RGS Dubai students benefit from regular access to ISD Dubai Sports City’s elite sporting facilities, including indoor training domes, outdoor pitches, athletics tracks, tennis courts, and the school’s dedicated “RGS Rugby Park.”
These venues are central to the delivery of curriculum PE, extracurricular sport, training sessions, fixtures, and major school events throughout the academic year.
Approximately 700 pupils use ISD’s facilities each week across PE lessons, before-school ECAs, training programmes, and competitive fixtures.
The partnership also enables up to three-and-a-half hours of timetabled sport per week, with ISD’s infrastructure supporting high-quality delivery for groups of up to 180 pupils at a time as part of the school’s broader PE programme.
Matthew Pearce, Principal of Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai, said: “We are delighted to strengthen our long-standing partnership with ISD Dubai Sports City, which has become an integral part of the RGS Dubai experience and our wider sporting programme.”
A truly well-rounded education extends beyond the classroom, and this collaboration has created valuable opportunities for pupils to build confidence, resilience, teamwork, and character through sport, all within an environment that reflects the ambition and values of RGS Dubai.
Daniels Petrovs, CEO of ISD Dubai Sports City, said: “Renewing this partnership for a further seven years reflects the role we believe ISD Dubai Sports City should play in this region. Dubai Sports City is home to a community of over 8,000 students, and we sit at the centre of that.
That brings both responsibility and opportunity. Sport shapes young people in ways that go far beyond performance, and our school partnerships are how we deliver that impact at scale. RGS Dubai has been part of this community since 2021, and this renewal is a commitment to deepening that relationship and to what we are collectively building here for the long term.”
