Sports

At FirstPoint, our goal is to provide outstanding Physical Education for all our students. Alongside our extensive extracurricular programme we offer an innovative and fully inclusive curriculum pathway. We are one department with specialist PE teachers working with Foundation School children to supporting A Level students, creating a team atmosphere that inspires confidence and engagement in all students, to, in turn, inspire them to make healthy active choices in and around school. 

We have a multi-sport focus throughout the year where students are exposed to a wide variety of sporting opportunities that enable them to develop their physical literacy and progress towards our GCSE programme. Our PE department is confident in its approach to innovation, regularly utilising new technologies to reinforce learning. GCSE, A-Level PE and BTEC Sport are ever growing subjects, and this is testament to the quality of teaching, and our passion for Sport at the school.

Working in partnership with our curriculum pathway, we have a rapidly evolving sports programme with students participating from Year 3 through to Year 13. Our core sports are football, basketball, netball, and swimming. This is supported by additional sports such as cross-country, aquathon, touch-rugby, and athletics. We offer weekly and bi-weekly training in all our sports run by specialist and accredited coaches. With differing levels of teams, we offer students of varying abilities and aspirations a chance to represent the school and play in competitive fixtures and competitions. GEMS FirstPoint School competes in Dubai Affiliated School Sport Association leagues and competitions as well as local and regional competitions such as Dubai School Games and British Schools in Middle East Games. We offer weekly fixtures as well as stand-alone tournaments to enable our students to have the opportunity to compete regularly and hone technical and tactical skills but also to develop teamwork, cooperation, respect, and a love of sport. Through strategic external club links, we provide students with an avenue to playing outside of school in various academies for leisure or to pursue high performance. We proudly boast a total of over 40 teams and over 200 fixtures per school year, with teams training every day and competing all year round. In the 2023-24 year alone, GEMS FirstPoint School won a total of eight DASSA competitions, with individuals also medaling in golf, aquathon, and swimming. 

 We are incredibly fortunate to have some very talented athletes who have played representative sport in Basketball, Swimming and Golf. We truly believe in celebrating the success of all students in Sport and PE throughout the school. 

By establishing a lifelong passion for sport, we hope that pupils will continue to value its importance long after they have left GEMS FirstPoint School.