The online school market is fast become crowded with large amounts of online schools.  As career educators and former headteachers, we caution the use of the word ;’school’ when the same standards of school evaluation and inspection is not upheld.   

We believe that all online schools should seek evaluation and accreditation.   

Key areas to consider when exploring online schools and comparing prices are linked to; quality of teachers, quality of curriculum, class sizes, weekly schedules of daily timetabled real time lessons, and quality assurance.  

We follow the full UK National Curriculum for England for children from ages 4 to 16.  We offer both an Online Primary School and Online Secondary School model of online education.   

This includes daily live real time lessons with our team of highly experienced, qualified teachers and a program of supported project based independent work.  

The great thing about learning online is that it can be accessed anywhere in the world you have a stable wifi connection.   We are partners with Google For Education so have a 24-7 classroom where all of your resources, lesson recordings are available.    We offer different time zone learning streams following both the UK AM Track and UK PM Track

In our Primary and Secondary School class sizes are 6:1 in  Core Curriculum Subjects.  At GCSE level, you can expect no more than 10 students per class.

Yes. Our core program is included in the academic school fees, but we are able to offer a range of additional subjects (including at GCSE) on a private tuition basis.  This includes Humanities, Computer Science, Business Studies, Languages. Due to the practical nature of assessments, Music and Art is available to UK based students.

Our GCSE program starts in our online school year 10.  This makes us the only through school model for an online school for gcse. 

We offer a core gcse curriculum of English Literature, English Language, Maths and Combined Science. English as a Second Language GCSE is available for non-native english speaking students.

GCSE exams are taken by students based in the UK. As we are a global online school, our students take part in the International GCSE examinations. There is no difference between how universities and school rank GCSE vs IGCSE grade results.

We are a British Curriculum School following the UK National Curriculum for England.  We are the only online school partner of the International Primary Years Curriculum and International Middle Years Curriculum.   

At GCSE our private online high school, follows Pearson EdExcel and Cambridge IGCSE courses.

Our Online Year 10 and Online Year 11 program covers the KS4 IGCSE years. 

Our program is designed to be a 2 year pathway starting in Year 10 and ending at the end of examinations in Year 11. We do offer Year 11 students places on a case by case basis. Please get in touch with our admissions team for more information.

No!  We offer a global classroom and online school for international students as we have children that join us from countries from around the world.   

This means you can join our Online School Dubai, Online School UAE and Online School Saudi Arabia.  

For families looking for homeschooling in Saudi Arabia and Home School UAE, your children will be part of a UK Online School. 

Lots of our families join us because they want the flexibility and convenience  of being able to take Sophia High School on the road.

We are an anytime, anywhere school and operate across several time zones. 

Our British Home School model provides travelling families with a high quality online home school programme that goes anywhere you do.  

When comparing Sophia High School lots of our parents have come from the following online school programs

MyOnlineSchool

Kings Interhigh

Cambridge Home School

Minerva Virtual Academy

Sophia High School was the first online school in the UK to be evaluated by Ofsted in September 2023 on behalf of the UK Department for Education as part of the Online Education Accreditation Scheme.

Our full report and news on Accreditation will be shared soon. 

We are a Member School with the Council of International Schools, having undergone a three day evaluation visit in 2021.  The full report is available on our website.

EOTAS is Education Other Than at School as is a valid model of online education and home education as options for parents outside of traditional schooling.  

We have a large cohort of families looking for online schools dubai and online schools UAE who join our global classroom.    

Our International students access our model of flexible education at our virtual school from Dubai, UAE and the wider Middle East.  

Students are registered as students at a UK Online School and can be provided with full academic reports and transfer certificates that are accepted by Schools in the UAE, Dubai, Saudi, Qatar and Ministries like the KHDA. 

Yes!.  We have a large community of students and families who join us from Dubai and across the UAE.  In fact we are one of the top ranked and best online schools in Saudi Arabia.  

As our British Online School has been evaluated by Ofsted and will be accredited by the UK Department of Education, all students joining us are registered at a fully recognised school in England.  

Yes.  There is no regulation or law preventing students from joining an online school in Dubai or online school UAE.  

All students are registered as pupils as a DfE recognised school in England.  We  provide full academic school reports and transfer certificates to families.