Facilities
Facilities

The school has an excellent array of first class facilities that help to provide a wonderful ‘working’ environment for pupils and staff. We are also very proud of the space available for children to enjoy play and socialising during breaks, before and after school and during our diverse and varied ECA (Extra Curricular Activity) programme.

Classrooms are well equipped and well resourced for teaching and learning, and we are always looking to improve and upgrade in line with educational trends. Specialist facilities for art, drama, music, sport, ICT, design & technology, science, food technology and a well stocked and spacious library all add significantly to the children’s educational experience and opportunities. A carefully planned and managed building and resourcing development programme over recent years has ensured that TES has the best facilities on offer in Kuwait and we are very much the envy of our friends in other schools.    

Performing Arts Centre

This is a world class facility, comfortably seats over 600 in a fabulous environment and is used for assemblies, school productions, parent meetings, musical performances and also has a good deal of local community use.

Specifications include:

  • Acoustically treated walls and ceilings
  • Advanced audio and video equipment including theatrical sound and lighting systems as well as projection and recording equipment
  • Motorised 6m screen
  • 12,000 lumen projector
  • A wide range of Flood, Fresnel, PC and Moving Head lights linked to a programmable control unit
  • PreSonus, Bose, Proel, Sure, Sennheiser, Mackie, Sony, Biamp, QSC, Yamaha
  • Telescopic seating system for 400 with a capacity of over 600
  • Large stage and supporting dressing and green rooms
  • Drama black box and costume stores

Gym

  • Air conditioned
  • Sprung wooden floor
  • Marked for netball, tennis, basketball, volleyball, etc.
  • High ceilings with acoustic panelling
  • Competition level basketball hoops and backboards
  • Programmable electronic scoreboard
  • Glass walled viewing gallery
  • The separate boys and girls changing rooms, toilets and showers have direct access to the gymnasium and the swimming pool

Swimming pool


  • 6 lane 13 x 25m main pool
  • Double deep ends to facilitate diving from either end
  • Raised central plateau for main teaching area
  • Adjoining 6 x 10m beginners pool with a depth of 70cm
  • Open air – shaded
  • Heated when necessary
  • Surrounded by tiered seating
  • Viewing gallery

Library

Separate areas for Pre-prep and Prep students

  • Desks and chairs for studying, as well as informal seating for reading favourite books
  • Computer access to library catalogue and the internet
  • Houses 23,000 books and periodicals
  • Browser based library system searchable throughout the school

 

ICT Labs

  • Two separate ICT labs containing approximately 60 PCs, 2 network B&W laser printers and 2 network colour laser printers
  • PCs are the latest 23” HP all-in-one touch screens
  • Bespoke furniture to provide most appropriate seating
  • Connected to school wide fiber backboned network
  • Fast firewalled and content filtered internet access
  • Cisco core and layer 3 edge switches, Ubiquiti wireless AP, Smoothwall UTM, HP Servers, Unitrends backup, Avaya IP telephony, Promethean IWB’s, Eiki projectors 

Science Labs


  • Two separate science labs with an adjoining science prep room
  • Well resourced to cover all three sciences, Physics, Chemistry and Biology
  • Promotes and supports the experiment based curriculum
  • Used by Years 5 to 8

Science Garden

  • Recently developed to provide an external nature environment to study plants and wildlife
  • Includes a shaded outdoor classroom 

Music Suite

  • Comprises of two interconnected music rooms along with three individual practice rooms and a recording studio
  • High end mixers and speakers for quality audio playback 
  • Electro voice, Genelec, Novation, Dynacord, Gemini, Zoom, Yamaha
  • Excellent connectivity for a variety of recording scenarios
  • Several independent peripatetic music rooms are also available
  • A separate keyboard room

Art & Design Technology

  • Comprises of three large rooms with adjoining stores. Windows on opposite sides of each room provide vast amounts of natural light
  • Separate areas for CAD/CAM, wood/metal work and textiles area
  • Separate room for food technology
  • Children have access to age appropriate equipment and machinery including hand saws, band saws, vacuum former, sewing machines, pillar drills, belt sanders, etc.

Bedouin Tent


  • Our Years 7 and 8 have the privilege of using the Bedouin tent during their breaks
  • Parents waiting for their children’s older siblings also use the tent at the end of the school day
  • Air conditioned with traditional Bedouin seating
  • Water coolers
  • Television with access to children’s programmes to help occupy the young ones whilst waiting for their brothers and sisters

Sports Area


  • One of the few schools in Kuwait to have an outside sports area within the campus walls
  • Rubberised sports surfacing adjacent the gymnasium and swimming pool areas
  • Multipurpose, marked for 5-a-side football, bench-ball, netball, tennis, running track, etc.
  • Used during break times, PE lessons and for after school ECAs and squad training

Playgrounds


  • Large shaded areas with picnic benches and age appropriate games/climbing apparatus
  • Rubberised flooring or matting under the climbing apparatus
  • Separate provision for Prep, Pre-Prep, Foundation, Kg and Pre-Kg

Foundation Garden

  • Adjacent to the Foundation playground is a multipurpose area for foundation pupils
  • Provides tiled path for bikes/trikes, artificial grass for paddling pools, seating area for story times, sandy area for play

Fitness Course

  • Climbing structure for improving general fitness, hand-eye coordination, etc.
  • Professionally designed and constructed
  • Available for Prep pupils only as a supervised activity

Pre-Prep & Prep Classrooms


All classrooms are approximately 78m2 in size, are air conditioned and have:

  • Carpeted and tiled areas
  • Interactive whiteboard and projector
  • Network points and wifi coverage for internet access PC and printer
  • Water cooler
  • Sink area
  • Telephone connectivity
  • UK Kite-mark standard tables and chairs