BIS Abu Dhabi Student Activists

Our voices are being enabled and exciting, positive and necessary change is on the horizon! As a bright new generation of future leaders, we the students of BIS Abu Dhabi want to use our voice to create some exciting changes. We no longer wish to sit on the sidelines and be observers. We wish to be the catalyst for encouraging conversations to drive positive changes that few have the courage to address.  

We are a brand-new student team - BISAD’s Student Activists - and we are starting now!  

The annual event that was once International Day will instead become a platform where we, the youth, work with you, our incredible local community to celebrate our humanity and beautiful environment and give a voice to students to create deep meaningful experiences that become a legacy for all future generations in our school.   

This year, this special day will celebrate the unique qualities of our school: inclusivity, diversity and our global community; and bring ideas to everyone's attention about what we can do in school and, as families, to work towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and create a better world and brighter future for everyone.   

We will build upon the successes of Nord Anglia Education's inspiring Social Impact Programme with UNICEF, which challenges our students to think about what they can do to make a positive difference; locally and globally, working on projects including: clean energy, quality health education for all and protecting global waterways. This is also at a key time as COP 28 is coming to the UAE and we must start to reflect and change the things we did before in order to create vital sustainable change.   

In 2023, what was once our celebrated “International” Day will have a fresh new look and become our BISAD Day of Youth. It will be planned, organized and led by us students; the year 12 Student Activists. As always, we will need your help to make this the epic success we are hoping for. At the beginning of next term, we will be holding a Coffee Morning for Parents to present our ideas so that we can work together to create a very meaningful, special and memorable day which embodies our sustainability dreams.   

More information to follow in the New Year. We look forward to working with you all to make this day the best yet! We wish you a magical, healthy and restful break.