Cranleigh Abu Dhabi
Emma Houlihan is an experienced music educator and freelance musician with a strong background in woodwind teaching. Currently, Emma serves as the Head of Woodwind and Prep School Music Teacher at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi since August 2022. Prior to this, Emma held the position of Music Teacher and subject leader at Amesbury Archer Primary School and Amesbury Primary School from September 2021 to September 2022. Emma also worked as a freelance musician from August 2015 to September 2021 and served as the Head of Woodwind and Woodwind Teacher at JESS in Dubai from August 2016 to August 2020. Earlier experience includes a tenure as a Woodwind Teacher at the Centre for Musical Arts from January 2009 to June 2013. Emma holds a Bachelor of Music (HONS) in Classical Music with a focus on flute performance from Edinburgh Napier University, completed in 2008.
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Cranleigh Abu Dhabi
We draw on 150 years’ worth of Cranleigh UK experience and have infused it with Middle Eastern culture to create something truly unique to the region. Based on the community and family-oriented ethos of Cranleigh School, we opened Cranleigh Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi in September 2014. We seek to provide a truly transforming British international education for children from FS1 Nursery to Year 13, in which intellectual, artistic, sporting, wellbeing and social development is at the heart. In addition to the broad academic curriculum which puts emphasis on the individual, the daily routine offers a wealth of opportunities which allow students to explore their full range of talents in visual and performing arts, music and sport, as well as across a broad range of co-curricular activities. Our school were rated outstanding across all six performance standards by Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge. We were named New British International School of the Year 2017 in the BIS Awards, and TES International School of the Year 2019. In September 2020 Spear's Global Schools Index, ranked Cranleigh Abu Dhabi in the Top 5 Schools in the Middle East.