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Sep 2024
48m 12s

Helping Kids Settle in

DUBAI EYE 103.8
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Three weeks into the new academic year, we look at how schools help children to settle in with Jessica Townsend, Assistant Head of EYFS at Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai and Annette Drake, Head of Senior School, Repton Dubai.
We also speak with Zurich International’s David Denton-Cardew about saving for kids’ education and Little Merchant Bazaar’s founder Rawan gives us ways on how to teach children the value of money.

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