Previous Events

The BSME App Challenge is an app design competition, and was this year hosted by The Pearl Academy, Abu Dhabi.

It is designed to support the English National Curriculum Computing Programs of study and the UAE MOE Moral Education Curriculum, whilst also giving children real purpose to their learning.

The App Challenge provided a creative opportunity for children to develop their moral and social responsibilities whilst preparing for their roles as leaders of the future. Students must work in a team to decide on a real world problem they wish to solve, and design an app which can support this.

Further information about this event can be found here.  

For BSME App Design Challenge 2024 Results, please click here. 

The Arabic Spelling Bee was a new competition open to KS2 students in BSME schools. The competition involved 2 phases competing against each other (Year 3/4 and Year 5/6) with 3 rounds of competitions on the day. Each school was sent a list of 100 words to learn.

Round 1: students will write the words correctly. Marks will be awarded for this.

Round 2: students will compete against each other to pronounce the words on the board correctly. Marks will be awarded.

Round 3: the students with the highest marks will go through to the final round of spelling the random words some from the 100 given and some unseen from given topics.

Prizes were awarded to the top 3 schools and the finalist and runner up in each of the two phases.

Further information about the event can be found in the welcome letter here.

The results can be found here. 

The photos from the event can be found here. 

Participating Schools

The BSME SRS Art & Photography Competition encourages creativity in students; increases artistic awareness in schools, and; allows talented students to communicate through the field of art.

 Competition Goals 

1. To encourage student creativity
2. To increase artistic awareness in schools
3. To enable talented students to communicate through the field of Art

The theme for the Art competition this year is ‘Artificial intelligence’.

Further information about the competition and registration details can be found here.

The rules and regulations of the competition can be found here. 

For BSME SRS Art & Photography Competition please click below:

Years 5-6

Years 7-9

Years 10 -11

Years 12-13

This years BSME Dance was held at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi on 24 - 26 May.

Further information about this event can be found here. 

For BSME Dance Invitational Results 2024 please click below:

Junior Category

Senior Category

The BSME Debate competition took place on Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October 2023 at GEMS Founders School, Dubai. The three day competition consisted of competitive debates, a social event, individual speaker awards and a fantastic experience for our students. The competition was open to Junior (Years 7-9) and Senior teams (Years 10-13). Schools could enter teams of up to five students, but only four students were be able to participate during each of the debates. Each team took part in a minimum of four debates over the weekend and each school was required to provide their own judge during the preliminary rounds. 

Further information about this event can be found here.

The overall results for this event can be found here. 

The best speaker awards can be found here. 

Participating Schools

The Arbor School was delighted to welcome schools in Dubai to the inaugural Eco-STEM Food Agriculture Challenge.

Further information about this event can be seen on the event poster found here.

For BSME Eco Stem Event Results 2024, please click here. 

Education Perfect hosted three special student events exclusively for BSME member schools in the 2023-24 academic year. These events offered students the chance to enjoy interactive and engaging online lessons, get instant feedback on their learning, and have fun competing against their peers and other BSME schools!  

Further information about these events and registration details can be found here.

You can view the full results here.

In partnership with Daigon, BSME was pleased to introduce a new event to the student events calendar, BSME Esports Competition. Students from Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 were able to participate in a Minecraft Capture the Flag League that ran across four different dates, with a fifth date for the finals.

Further information about this event can be found here.

For BSME Esports Competition Results 2024, please click here.

Cranleigh Abu Dhabi hosted the BSME Open Golf Tournament at Yas Acres Golf & Country Club on 06-07 November. 

Further information about this event can be found here.

To view the results, please click here. 

Participating Schools

The BSME Music Festival will be returned on 09 - 12 November 2023, hosted by The English School and The New English School, Kuwait. The festival was a fun-filled event where children made new friends and shared the experience of making music together.

The photos from the event can be found here. 

Participating Schools

MES Cairo’s Primary Student Council helped to promote and judge the annual Primary Creative Writing Event in association with British Schools in the Middle East. The BSME Primary Writing Competition was an online competition, initially launched in 2017, designed to provide students who attend BSME member schools an opportunity to demonstrate their creativity.

Since its launch, many extremely talented young writers have submitted their work to an international audience to read. We hope that aspiring young writers will be given the opportunity to shine through platforms such as this.

Further information about this event can be found here.

Education Horizons again provided each of the three winners with Amazon vouchers worth 80 GBP each!

Texthelp provided the schools that the winners are from with an annual subscription to Texthelp's Read&Write literacy support software. This software can support development of reading and writing skills and this video provides further information.

We are delighted to announce that the Winners of the BSME Primary Writing Event 2023-24 hosted by Modern English School, Cairo are;

Year 1 & 2 - Alexandra, Doha College, Qatar (Winning Entry) (Result)

Year 3 & 4 - Haidar, Gems Jumeirah Primary school , UAE (Winning Entry) (Result)

Year 5 & 6 - Henry, St Christopher's School, Bahrain (Winning Entry) (Result)

To view the participating schools, please click here.

Amity International School Abu Dhabi were proud to bring back the only secondary school creative writing competition in the region, in association with British Schools in the Middle East.

This online competition provided students with an opportunity to demonstrate their creativity and linguistic skills through writing. It also offered students access to an international audience, who read and judged their work.

The writing piece can be either continuous prose (in any genre), poetry or a blend of both. This is purposefully an open-ended task, in both theme and form, to allow schools to easily integrate the event into their curriculum and to allow students free rein to experiment and express themselves to the fullest extent.

Further information about this event can be found here. 

For BSME Secondary Writing Event results, please click below:

Key Stage 3

Key Stage 4

The BSME Swimming Championships were co hosted by St Christopher's School, Bahrain & the Sunmarke International School Dubai. The event was held in Dubai.

The letter of invitation for this event can be found here and further event information can be found here. 

The qualifying standards for this event can be found here. 

For BSME Swimming Championships Results 2024, please click here. 

The Year 5 and 6 Football competition was held at St Christopher’s School, Bahrain on Friday 26 January and Saturday 27 January 2024. This competition provided pupils with an opportunity to compete against different schools in a fun and friendly environment.

Further information about this event can be found here.

For BSME U11 Football Results please click below:

U11 Football Girls Results

U11 Football Boys Results 

Dubai English Speaking School were delighted to host the U11 Netball Tournament on Saturday 13 January 2024. 

Further information about this event can be found here.

For BSME U11 Netball Results 2024, please click here. 

The BSME Games are the pinnacle of our member schools' sporting calendar, and is the leading inter-country multiple sport competition in the Middle East. The purpose of the Games is to:

• provide students with a variety of sporting opportunities at an appropriate level for all member schools in a safe and competitive environment;
• ensure equal opportunity and participation to both boys and girls;
• expand students’ learning experience in sportsmanship and in the value of healthy competition;
• recognise the value of the benefits of training in preparation for competition;
• facilitate specialisation in sports appropriate to their age group;
• engage host schools by having sufficient flexibility to organise a programme appropriate to their particular environment and capacity.

The BSME U11 Games are split into three categories: small, medium and large depending on overall intake in Year 6.

The 2024 BSME U11 Small Games were hosted at Brighton College Al Ain.

To view the results, please click here.

The BSME Games are the pinnacle of our member schools' sporting calendar, and is the leading inter-country multiple sport competition in the Middle East. The purpose of the Games is to:

• provide students with a variety of sporting opportunities at an appropriate level for all member schools in a safe and competitive environment;
• ensure equal opportunity and participation to both boys and girls;
• expand students’ learning experience in sportsmanship and in the value of healthy competition;
• recognise the value of the benefits of training in preparation for competition;
• facilitate specialisation in sports appropriate to their age group;
• engage host schools by having sufficient flexibility to organise a programme appropriate to their particular environment and capacity.

The BSME U11 Games are split into three categories: small, medium and large depending on overall intake in Year 6.

The 2024 BSME U11 Medium Games were hosted at South View School Dubai.

To view the results, please click here.

The BSME Games are the pinnacle of our member schools' sporting calendar, and is the leading inter-country multiple sport competition in the Middle East. The purpose of the Games is to:

• provide students with a variety of sporting opportunities at an appropriate level for all member schools in a safe and competitive environment;
• ensure equal opportunity and participation to both boys and girls;
• expand students’ learning experience in sportsmanship and in the value of healthy competition;
• recognise the value of the benefits of training in preparation for competition;
• facilitate specialisation in sports appropriate to their age group;
• engage host schools by having sufficient flexibility to organise a programme appropriate to their particular environment and capacity.

The BSME U11 Games are split into three categories: small, medium and large depending on overall intake in Year 6.

The 2024 BSME U11 Large Games were hosted at Kings' School Al Barsha.

To view the results, please click here.

The BSME Games are often the pinnacle of our member schools' sporting calendar, and is the leading inter-country multiple sport competition in the Middle East. The purpose of the Games is to:

• provide students with a variety of sporting opportunities at an appropriate level for all member schools in a safe and competitive environment;
• ensure equal opportunity and participation to both boys and girls;
• expand students’ learning experience in sportsmanship and in the value of healthy competition;
• recognise the value of the benefits of training in preparation for competition;
• facilitate specialisation in sports appropriate to their age group;
• engage host schools by having sufficient flexibility to organise a programme appropriate to their particular environment and capacity.

The 2024 U13 Games were hosted at the Arcadia School Dubai and the British School Al Khubairat Abu Dhabi.

Results from the U13 Games at Arcadia can be found here. 

The videos from the games can be seen below:

Day 1 Highlights; Day 2 Highlights; Overall 

Photos from the games can be viewed here, with an unlimited option to download them. 

Results from the U13 Games at BSAK can be found here. 

The video from the games can be viewed here.

Photos from the games can be viewed here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 & Awards ceremony.

Doha College, Qatar welcomed teams for the newly introduced 7 a side U13/ U15 Football Tournament.

Further information about this event can be found in the welcome letter here.

To view the results, please click here. 

Participating Schools

Brighton College Abu Dhabi welcomed teams for the U13/ U15 Netball Tournament.

Further information about this event can be found in the welcome letter here.

To view the results, please click here. 

Participating Schools

The BSME Games are the pinnacle of our member schools' sporting calendar, and is the leading inter-country multiple sport competition in the Middle East. The purpose of the Games is to:

• provide students with a variety of sporting opportunities at an appropriate level for all member schools in a safe and competitive environment;
• ensure equal opportunity and participation to both boys and girls;
• expand students’ learning experience in sportsmanship and in the value of healthy competition;
• recognise the value of the benefits of training in preparation for competition;
• facilitate specialisation in sports appropriate to their age group;
• engage host schools by having sufficient flexibility to organise a programme appropriate to their particular environment and capacity.

The 2024 BSME U15 Games were split into two events, held simultaneously across two locations: Cranleigh Abu Dhabi/ The British International School Abu Dubai and St. Christopher's School, Bahrain.

The results for the U15 Games at CAD/ BISAD can be found here. 

The photos from the U15 Games at CAD/ BISAD can be viewed here. 

The results for the U15 Games at STC can be found here. 

The photos from the U15 Games at STC can be viewed here. 

Videos from both games can be viewed here. 

Participating Schools

Repton Abu Dhabi welcomed teams to the newly introduced U15 Volleyball Tournament.

Further information about this event can be found in the welcome letter here.

For BSME U15 Volleyball Results please click below:

U15 Boys Volleyball Results 

U15 Girls Volleyball Results 

The BSME Games are the pinnacle of our member schools' sporting calendar, and is the leading inter-country multiple sport competition in the Middle East. The purpose of the Games is to:

• provide students with a variety of sporting opportunities at an appropriate level for all member schools in a safe and competitive environment;
• ensure equal opportunity and participation to both boys and girls;
• expand students’ learning experience in sportsmanship and in the value of healthy competition;
• recognise the value of the benefits of training in preparation for competition;
• facilitate specialisation in sports appropriate to their age group;
• engage host schools by having sufficient flexibility to organise a programme appropriate to their particular environment and capacity.

The 2023 U19 Games were held in Kuwait.

The results can be found here.

The photos from the Games can be found here. 

Participating Schools

Young Musicians of the Gulf (YMoG) is one of BSME's most popular competitions celebrating our most talented, musical students. This competition was instituted by St Christopher's School Bahrain and continues to be hosted by St Christopher's School on alternate years.

The hosting grid for YMoG 2024- 2026 is as follows: 

2024 | St Christopher's School Bahrain
2025 | The British School Al Khubairat, Abu Dhabi 
2026 | St Christopher's School Bahrain

This alternate hosting arrangement will continue beyond 2026 and our thanks to St Christopher's School Bahrain for their collegial approach to hosting opportunities.

The event overview document can be found here. 

Results for YMoG 2024 can be viewed here. 

The BSME App Challenge is an app design competition, hosted by The Pearl Academy, Abu Dhabi.

It is designed to support the English National Curriculum Computing Programs of study and the UAE MOE Moral Education Curriculum, whilst also giving children real purpose to their learning.

The App Challenge provides a creative opportunity for children to develop their moral and social responsibilities whilst preparing for their roles as leaders of the future. Students work in a team to decide on a real world problem they wish to solve, and design an app which can support this.

This year the App Challenge was sponsored by iSAMS.

The SRS BSME Art Competition encourages creativity in students; increases artistic awareness in schools, and; allows talented students to communicate through the field of art.

 Competition Goals 

1. To encourage student creativity
2. To increase artistic awareness in schools
3. To enable talented students to communicate through the field of Art

The theme for the Art competition this year is Peace. 

Further information about this event can be found here and the rules and regulations for the competition can be viewed here. 

The list of the Winners and Runners up can be found here and their artwork can be found here. 

The Students at Work Gallery can be viewed here.

The Press release can be viewed here.

The Judges video can be viewed here. 

This years BSME Dance was held in person, at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi. 

Further information about this event will can be found here.

During the 2022-23 academic year Education Perfect hosted five online competitions. Students earned points for every correct answer, regardless of lesson difficulty or subject. The more questions they complete, the more points they earn! The live leaderboard for each event engages and encourages healthy competition between the BSME Schools. 

Certificates and vouchers were awarded to the top-scoring students (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) and the top 3 BSME schools with the highest average points gained a digital badge that they can display on their school website!

Cranleigh Abu Dhabi hosted the BSME Open Golf Tournament at Saadiyat Beach Golf Club on 07-08 November. 

Further information about this event can be found here. 

Flight A and B results are below:

Team and lowest gross results are below:

MES Cairo’s Primary Student Council will be helping to promote and judge the annual Primary Creative Writing Event in association with British Schools in the Middle East. The BSME Primary Writing Competition is an online competition, initially launched in 2017, designed to provide students who attend BSME member schools an opportunity to demonstrate their creativity.

Since its launch, many extremely talented young writers have submitted their work to an international audience to read. We hope that aspiring young writers will be given the opportunity to shine through platforms such as this.

The theme of the event this year was:

Write a story about the day your character wakes up to discover they have been transformed into something. It could be an animal, another person, anything you like! Create your own character and write your own story about what happens!

Further information about the event and the code of conduct can be found here.

The event had two great sponsors this year who provided some fantastic prizes; Engage and Fiction Express. 

The winning entries of the MES Cairo BSME Primary Creative Writing Event 2022 - 23 were;

Year 1/2  Category - Lily Abdelghafour, Year 2, The British International School Jeddah. There’s a monster about - Look out.

Year 3/4  Category- Habiba Sherif, Year 4, British International School Madinaty. A Doomed Phoenix.

Year 5/6  Category - Hiba Nore, Year 6, Amity International School Abu Dhabi. June and the Selcom Forest.

On the 14th June 2023 Horizon English School hosted the Sixth Annual Islamic Quran Recitation Competition.

The competition was open to students in Years 1 to 6 who worked independently with assessment through oral recitation and further challenges and collaboration opportunities were also be available during the day. 

Further information about the event can be found here. Information about competition levels can found here. 

The following schools participated;  Brighton College Dubai, Horizon English School, Horizon International School Dubai, Jumeirah Primary School, Kings School Nad Al Sheba, Ranches Primary School, Safa Community School & Star International School - Al Twar. 

The results can be found here. 

Amity International School Abu Dhabi is proud to be back with the only secondary school creative writing competition in the region, brought to you in association with British Schools in the Middle East.

This online competition is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to demonstrate their creativity and linguistic skills through writing. It also offers students access to an international audience, who will read and judge their work.

The writing piece can be either continuous prose (in any genre), poetry or a blend of both. This is purposefully an open-ended task, in both theme and form, to allow schools to easily integrate the event into their curriculum and to allow students free rein to experiment and express themselves to the fullest extent.

Further information about this event can be found here. 

Collins will be presenting the Winners and Runners Up of each category, with an Amazon voucher for the value of 500 AED for the Winners and 200 AED for the Runners up.

We are thrilled to also confirm that Collins author, Ali Al-Jamri will be on the judging panel for the competition. 

The BSME Swimming Championships will be co hosted by the British International School Abu Dhabi and St Christopher's School, Bahrain. The event will be held at Mohamed bin Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi. 

Further information about the event can be found in the information pack and welcome letter. 

Please check this document for the qualifying standards.

Dubai English Speaking School is delighted to be hosting the U11 Netball Tournament on the 14th January 2023. 

Further information about this event can be found here. 

The results are as follows:

Shield Winners - Safa Community School

Bowl Winners - DESS B 

Plate Winners - Nord Anglia School

Cup Runners Up - DESS A

Cup Winners - Arcadia School 

Player of the Tournament - Daisy Morgan (Kings Dubai) 

We are delighted to confirm the Year 5 and 6 Football competition will be held at St Christopher’s School, Bahrain on Friday 3 February and Saturday 4 February 2023. This competition provides pupils with an opportunity to compete against different schools in a fun and friendly environment.

Further information about this event can be found here. 

Brighton College Abu Dhabi is looking forward to welcoming teams to for the U13/ U15 Netball Tournament. Over 20 teams participated in the event in 2020, and this tournament always proves to be a highly contested event! 

Further information about this event can be found in the welcome letter here. 

Young Musicians of the Gulf (YMoG) is one of BSME's most popular competitions celebrating our most talented students. This competition was instituted by St Christopher's School Bahrain however this year it was hosted by Dubai College from 31 January to 03 February 2023.

All the relevant information can be found on the event website here and in the following document. 

The App Challenge, hosted by The Pearl Academy Abu Dhabi, provided a creative opportunity for children to develop their moral and social responsibilities whist preparing for their roles as leaders of the future.

Information about the format and rules and regulations of event can be found here. 

The following schools participated: Al Ain Academy, Arcadia School, British international School of Madinaty, British School of Kuwait, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Jeddah Prep and Grammar School, New English School Kuwait and The Pearl Academy. 

Congratulations to all the schools that participated! 

Please click here to view the recording of the announcement of the results, thank you to all of those who were able to attend.

Congratulations to:

Winners – Fight for the Wild, The Pearl Academy

Runners Up – ScamBusters – New English School, Kuwait.

The SRS BSME Art Competition encourages creativity in students, increase artistic awareness in schools and allows talented students to communicate through the field of art.

 Competition Goals 

1. To encourage student creativity.
2. To increase artistic awareness in schools.
3. To enable talented students to communicate through the field of Art.

The theme for the Art competition was ‘My City, My View’. 

Further information about the event can be found here, and the competition rules can be found here.

Please click here to see the list of participating schools. 

The results from the event can be found here. 

To view images from the competition please click here. 

BSME Dance event, hosted by Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, was held online to allows as many Schools as possible, across the Middle East, to participate. 

BSME Schools had online access to a variety of intermediate and advanced dance workshops from established Pineapple Dance Studios. There was a range of dance styles to choose from and students enjoyed learning from the workshops in their own time and space. Students and Teachers will then adapted the workshop choreography to inspire their own work, with final entries submitted in any dance style. 

The theme was 'Art in Motion'. 

Further information about the event can be found here and via the event website here. 

The participating schools were; Al Mamoura Academy, Abu Dhabi, Al Muna School, Abu Dhabi, Al Yasmina Academy, Abu Dhabi, Amity International School, Abu Dhabi, Aspen Heights British School, Abu Dhabi, Brighton College, Abu Dhabi, Brighton College, Dubai, British International School of Al Khobar - BISAK, Saudi Arabia, Cranleigh, Abu Dhabi, Doha College, Qatar, Dubai British School - Emirates Hills, Dubai College, Dubai English Speaking College, Dubai Scholars Private School, GEMS Wellington School, Qatar, Gulf British Academy, Kuwait, Horizon International School, Dubai, International Community Schools Branch 1, Abu Dhabi, Kings' School Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, Kuwait English School, Mockingbird Performing Arts, Doha College, Qatar, Nord Anglia International School, Dubai, Safa Community School, Dubai, St Christopher's School, Bahrain, Sunmarke School JVT, Dubai, The British International School, Abu Dhabi, The British School of Bahrain, Victory Heights Primary School, Dubai.

Results for the event can be found here. 

During the 2021-22 academic year Education Perfect hosted six online competitions. Students earned points for every correct answer, regardless of lesson difficulty or subject. The more questions they complete, the more points they earn! The live leaderboard for each event engages and encourages healthy competition between the BSME Schools. 

Certificates and vouchers were awarded to the top-scoring students (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) and the top 3 BSME schools with the highest average points gained a digital badge that they can display on their school website!

BSME Learning Festival took place from the 05 - 07 October and was aimed at students in Years 7-9. The event focused on the learning within English, Mathematics and Science.

BSME Science Championship was held from the 16 - 18 November, covering a range of content exploring the themes of Innovation, Sustainability & Technology. The competition theme was 'The Next Frontier' and aimed at students in upper Key Stage 2 (Years 5-6). 

BSME Languages Championship, ran from the 08 -15 March and was suitable for all levels of language learners. Students independently completed language learning during the event and also earned points for any teacher-assigned Languages tasks. Languages included:  EAL/ESOL, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Italian & Indonesian.

BSME Maths Challenge, was held on the 20th April and enabled students to learn, revise and extend themselves through a range of curriculum-aligned, engaging Maths activities with the content best suited to students in Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9).  

BSME Primary Arabic Competition was a this 3-day competition from the 17 - 19 May allowing Students to revise and learn Arabic content on the Education Perfect platform. The event was suited to upper Key Stage 2 students (Year 5-6). 

BSME Humanities Championship focused on world of Geography with the theme The World Around Us. The competition ran from 07 - 09 June and enabled students in Years 7-9 to learn, revise and extend themselves through a range of interactive & engaging physical geography lessons.

Hartland International School will be hosted the BSME Open Golf Tournament 2022, on the 22nd & 23rd of February at Montgomerie Golf Club, Dubai.

Further information about this event can be found here. 

The following schools participated in the 2022 event; Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Dubai English Speaking College, Dubai College, GEMS Wellington International School, Hartland International School, Kuwait English School, Safa Community School & The British School of Bahrain. 

The results for the tournament can be found here. 

This is an online competition, which was launched in 2017, to provide students who attend BSME member schools in the Middle East with an opportunity to demonstrate their ideas and imagination through writing. 

The theme of the event was HERO WANTED... The world needs a new superhero.

Further information about the event and the code of conduct can be found here.

The participating schools were; Amity International School, Arcadia School, Azzan Bin Qais International School, Belvedere British School, British International School Madinaty, British School Al Hamra - RAK Academy, Cambridge International School, Capital School, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Doha College, Dukhan English School, El Alsson British and American International Schools, English Modern School - Doha Campus, English Modern School Al Wakra- Qatar, Gems Founders Al-Mizhar, GEMS Royal Dubai School, Gulf British Academy, Gulf English School, Hartland International School,Horizon International School, International Community School, Amman,International Community Schools Br 4, Jeddah Prep and Grammar School,  Jumeirah Primary School, Kent College Dubai, Doha College, Kings' School Dubai, Knowledge Gate International School,Kuwait English School, Maadi British International School, Nadeen International School, Nord Anglia International School Al Khor, Oryx International School, Qatar International School, Sharjah English School, St Christopher's School, The Arbor School, The English Academy, The English School

The winning entries of the MES Cairo BSME Primary Creative Writing Event 2021 - 2022 are :

Year 1/2  Category - Zidan Motala, Year 2, Oryx International School, Qatar

Year 3/4  Category- Massa Rabie, Year 3, MES Cairo

Year 5/6  Category - Jaida Fathalla, Year, 6 El Alsson British and American International School

On the 21st June 2022 Horizon English School hosted the Fifth Annual Islamic Quran Recitation Competition.

The competition was open to students in Years 1 to 6 who worked independently with assessment through oral recitation and further challenges and collaboration opportunities were also be available during the day. 

The event was limited to Dubai schools, based on a first come, first served basis due to the capacity on numbers. 

Further information about the event can be found here. Information about competition levels can found here. 

The following schools participated; Deira International School, Dubai British School Emirates Hills, Dubai Heights Academy, Horizon English School, Horizon International School Dubai, Kent College, Ranches Primary School, Royal Grammar Guildford Dubai & Safa Community School. 

The results can be found here. 

Race 4 Good is a Courageous Leadership programme for students where whole year groups work together as a team and compete against other schools to uplift lives in a remote community. 

During the 2021 - 2022 academic year two Race 4 Good BSME leagues took place; 

The race for students in Years 11, 12 & 13 took place in September & October 2021.

The race for students in Years 7, 8, 9 & 10 and will be taking place from the 7th - 24th March 2022.

Further information about this event can be found here.

Participating schools in Years 7, 8, 9 & 10; Al Basma British School, Cranleigh School Abu Dhabi, Hartland International School Dubai, Safa Community School Dubai, St Christopher’s School Bahrain, The British School, Al Khubairat Abu Dhabi, The British School of Bahrain Team 1 & The British School of Bahrain Team 2. 

Participating schools in Years 11, 12 & 13; Al-Khor International School Qatar, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Dubai English Speaking College, Hartland International School Dubai, Repton Abu Dhabi, The British School Al-Khubairat Abu Dhabi & The British School of Bahrain.

Hosted by Amity International School Abu Dhabi, this online competition is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to demonstrate their creativity and linguistic skills through writing.

The theme of the event was ‘Stars’ .

Further information about the event and the code of conduct can be found here.

The winners of the BSME Secondary Writing Competition 2022 were as follows;

KS3 Winner: Untitled, by Dena Elfahal, from the English Modern School, Doha.

KS3 Runner Up: The Vega Star, by Laila Gaafar from El Alsson, Cairo.

KS4 Winner: Empty Canvas, by Taehee Kim, from Amity International School, Abu Dhabi

KS4 Runner Up: Here Comes the Sun: The Brightest Star, by Samvrutha Krishnakumar, from Horizon International School, Dubai

The guest judge, Jamila Gavin, has provided a reading of each of the winning entries and the readings can be found on the BSME Youtube channel here: KS3 and KS4. 

St Christopher's School, Bahrain, hosted YMOG 2022 in a virtual capacity from the 27 February - 03 March. 

Each participant was required to record and submit a performance for each round of the competition. 

YMoG has allowed our young musicians to compete against the very best in the Middle East and has always been much more than a competition.

For further information about this event please click here. 

The results of YMoG 2022 can be seen below;

Dubai English Speaking School hosted the U11 Netball Tournament on the 5th March 2022. The tournament was held at Dubai English Speaking College. 

Further information about the event can be found here. 

The following schools participated; Arcadia School, Dubai English Speaking School, Dubai Heights Academy, GEMS Wellington Al Khail, GEMS Wellington Int School, GEMS Winchester School, Horizon International School, Jumeirah Primary School, Kings' School Al Barsha, Kings' School Dubai, Royal Dubai School, Safa Community School and The English College.

The results were as follows; 

1^st - Kings Dubai, 2^nd - JPS 1, Joint 3^rd - DESS A / Kings B, 5^th - SCS, 6^th - Arcadia, 7^th - JPS 2, 8^th - DESS 2, 9^th - DESS 3, 10^th - EC, 11th - KSAB, 12th - RDS, 13th - WIS, 14^th - WEK

Spirit of the Tournament - English College and Arcadia School

Player of the Tournament - Sara Latif ( JPS )

The App Challenge, hosted by The Pearl Academy Abu Dhabi, provided a creative opportunity for children to develop their moral and social responsibilities whist preparing for their roles as leaders of the future.

Information about the format and rules and regulations of event can be found here. 

The following schools participated: Al Khor International School, Al Khor, Qatar, British School of Alexandria, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Dubai British School, Horizon International School, Jeddah prep and Grammar School, Kent College Dubai, Nahda Academy, Oryx International School, Star International School, Al Twar, The British School of Bahrain, The British School of Kuwait, The Pearl Academy. 

Congratulations to all the schools that participated! 

Overall Winner – Little Eco Warriors – Green Buddy | Jeddah Prep and Grammar School 

Joint Runners Up – Among Us Pollution | British School of Kuwait 

                                    Brain Pro | The British School of Bahrain 

The SRS BSME Art Competition encouraged creativity in students, increased artistic awareness in schools and enabled talented students to communicate through the field of art. The theme for this years competition was ‘My experience during Covid-19 pandemic’. 

The competition rules and regulations can be found here.  

With nearly x400 entries from x25 schools, this year proved to be the biggest competition to date!  

Entries were received from the following schools; Amity Int School, Capital School Dubai UAE, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Deira International School, Dubai British School - Jumeirah Park, Int School of Creative Science, Kings' School Al Barsha, Kings' School Dubai, Latifa School For Girls, Safa Community School, Scholars International Academy, School of Research Science, British International School Al Khobar, Dharan British Grammar, Compass International School, Doha British School, Doha British School Ain Khaled, Nord Anglia Int, Gulf British Academy, Gulf English School, Kuwait English School, New English School, The British School of Kuwait, El Alsson School Newgiza, New Cairo British International School. 

To see the Winners and Runners Up please click here.

The competition video can be seen on the host school competition website;

To see some images from the prize giving please click here. 

Due to covid-19 restrictions, Cranleigh School Abu Dhabi hosted the first online dance digital event, which allowed as many schools as possible across the Middle East to come together and celebrate the joy of dance.

The Dance event took on the form of a choreography competition, inspired by the theme of ‘Connections’. To see the requirements of the event please click here.  

With x22 schools participating the students had a fantastic time choreographing their own pieces and competing against other schools. 

The schools taking part in this event were as follows; Al Muna Academy, Amity International School, Aspen Heights British School, Brighton College Dubai, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Doha College, Doha College (Mockingbird Performing Arts), Dubai College, Dubai English Speaking College, Dubai Scholars Private School, GEMS Jumeirah Primary School, GEMS Wellington Al Khail, GEMS WSO, Hartland International, Horizon English School, Horizon International School, Kent College Dubai, Kings' Dubai, Kings' School Nad Al Sheba, Nord Anglia International School Dubai, RAK Academy, Sharjah English School, The British International School Abu Dhabi, The British School of Alexandria & Victory Heights Primary School. 

The results of the competition were as follows; 

Junior Solo Performance:

Runner up: Eleanor Myiola Pereira, Dubai Scholars Private School

Winner: Samaira Sahni, Jumeira Primary School

Junior Duo/Trio Performance:

Runner up: Zeinab el Ghazouly and Rosa- Lynn Bareham, The British School Alexandria

Winner: Reem Alabed and Kiara Baranet, Cranleigh School Abu Dhabi

Senior Solo Performance:

Runner up: Catarina Domingues, Amity International School

Winner: Shreya Vijay Baherwani, Dubai Scholars Private School

Senior Duo/Trio Performance:

Runner up: Harriett Morgan, Jasmine Scott, Mirrin Thomson, Kent College Dubai

Winner: Beau Lonergan Jessica Cain, Dubai English Speaking College

Junior Group Dance Performance:

Runner up: Mockingbird Performing Arts at Doha College

Winner: Kings’ School Nad Al Sheba

Senior Group Dance Performance:

Runner up: Kent College Dubai

Winner: GEMS Wellington Dubai Silicon Oasis

The Audience Favourite Award:

Winner: Dubai Scholars Private School

The presentation video can be found here.

With more than 50 entries across approximately thirty BSME schools the Primary Creative Writing Event was as popular as ever! Each entry succeeded in drawing the judges into a world of fairies, wishes, Wishgranters, dragons, to name but a few! Having to adhere to such a word count at any age is a challenge, and the students rose to the challenge wonderfully! 

“The imagination, creativity, and effort were clear to see. I have truly loved reading every single entry, as have others who have helped judge them” said Barbara Meason, competition coordinator. 

The winning entries of the MES Cairo BSME Primary Creative Writing Event are as follows:

Years 1 and 2: Allesandra Crane | Year 2 | Amity International School, who wrote a touching poem about bullying and wishes

Years 3 and 4: Darren Kong | Year 4 | Qatar International School, whose wish granter story transported the reader to a world of dragons.

Years 5 and 6: Diya Sunkara | Year 5 | Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, whose poem took the readers through a time portal to right a mistake.

Information about the format and rules and regulations of event can be found here. 

Race4Good is a leadership program in the form of a dynamic, virtual race, through which leadership skills are discovered, developed, challenged and embedded through high-impact experiential learning and situational leadership challenges. Further information about the Race can be found here. 

March 2020 saw the first BSME Race4Good league in which eight schools came up with inspirational solutions to help those in need.

The participating schools were;  

Al Khor International School, Al Mamoura Academy, British School Al Khubairat, British School of Bahrain, Dubai English Speaking College, GEMS Wellington International School, Hartland International School, Latifa School For Girls

Final results were as follows:

Round 1, League 1: Dubai English Speaking College and Hartland International School were selected to go on to the final round.

GEMS Wellington International School and Al Khor International School both had excellent plans, but we had to narrow it down to two teams.

Round 1, League 2: British School Al Khubairat and British School of Bahrain were the finalists who went on to the final round.

Latifa School for Girls and Al Mamoura Academy again had wonderful ideas, again making it a hard choice for the judges!

Final Round: British School of Bahrain had the winning plan, but one of our judges (Michael Roulston) was so impressed with the plan put forth by the Dubai English Speaking College, he personally funded that plan so it could be implemented as well.

The winners video can be seen here. 

This year was the first year that we held the Secondary Writing Challenge and with over 50 entries from 32 schools, it proved to be very successful with our membership. 

Paul Ferris from the host school said “It has been a true pleasure to read so many wonderful pieces from a hugely creative community of writers and I am honoured to have been given this opportunity”. 

We are delighted to announce that the winners of the inaugural Amity International School Abu Dhabi Secondary Writing Challenge are:

KS4: Kanzah Khan, Oryx International School, Qatar, for 'A Game of Demise'; a fascinating and incredibly solid work of fantasy that showed imagination, research skills, a love of chess, and some very deft use of metaphor. 

KS3: Maria Honeen, New English School, Kuwait, for 'Dangerous Affection'; a smart, savvy, and incredibly mature piece reflecting on the risks we take with our emotions.

Information about the format and rules and regulations of event can be found here. 

Due to the covid-19 restrictions YMOG 2021 took place in a virtual capacity with over 85 students participating from 25 schools.

Each participant was required to submit four different recordings and these were used as the entry performances. The independent adjudicators will had access to these videos the day before the streaming dates and the results were announced at the end of each round.

Further information about the competition can be found on the school's event website. 

The participating schools were; Al Ain Academy, Abu Dhabi, Al Yasmina Academy, Abu Dhabi, British International School Abu Dhabi, British School Muscat, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Dubai College, Dubai English Speaking College, Dukhan English School, Hartland International School, Dubai, Jumeirah College, Dubai, Kings’ School Al Barsha, Kuwait English School, New Cairo British International School, Egypt, New English School Kuwait, Nord Anglia International School Dubai, Park House English School Doha, Repton School Abu Dhabi, Safa Community School, St Christopher’s School Bahrain, The British School Al Khubairat, The British School of Bahrain & The British School of Kuwait.

All the performances can be sen on the YMOG Youtube channel. 

The winners were as follows; 

Further information about the BSME Games that took place in 2019-2020 can be seen below. 

Due to Covid-19 unfortunately the U11 Large and Small Games could not take place in 2020.

All BSME Games Records can be found here.