The Primary School
International Primary Curriculum.

Students in K1 through Grade 5 follow the International Primary Curriculum (IPC).

The IPC is designed to help children:

• Learn the essential knowledge, skills and understanding of a broad range of curriculum subjects.
• Engage with their learning so that they remain committed to learning throughout their school careers and their lives.
• Develop the personal qualities they need to be good citizens and to respond to the changing contexts of their future lives.
• Develop a sense of their own nationality and culture at the same time as developing a profound respect for nationalities and cultures of others.

K1 follow the IPC Early Years Programme. Please note: K1 students who have not reached the age of 5 on October 1^st are not eligible to attend K 2 by law.

K2 – Grade 5 follow the IPC Main Programme, made up of Milepost 1 (K2, G1), Milepost 2 (G2, G3) and Milepost 3 (G4, G5).

 Subjects covered in the IPC are Art, Geography, History, ICT, Language Arts, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Science and Society. All subject areas are integrated into the IPC units as far as possible and remaining learning goals are taught through stand-alone programmes. Classroom learning is supported by field trips and from Grade 1 there is also the chance of an overnight camp.

The IPC provides rigorous and meaningful teaching frameworks and a wide range of resources to support each IPC unit of work. This enables teachers to plan more effectively the work they will be doing and therefore spend more time developing creative, personalized learning for the children.

The IPC additionally provides assessment for learning and the thinking and enquiry skills are already embodied within the units. IPC assessment tasks and assessment rubrics are in place. Parents receive this information via newsletters, parent teacher conferences v , Open Houses, the sharing and displaying of student work, parent education sessions, parent information meetings and via the curriculum documents here on this website.

You can help support your child’s learning by maintaining contact with your child’s teacher and the school, reading and discussing with your child, supporting your child’s mother tongue, assisting with school research projects, attending information evenings, consultations and conferences, and further by providing a quiet, appropriate structured area and time for scheduled homework.