Students at ISB follow a modified version of the English National Curriculum which offers challenge, breadth, balance and coherence through a wide range of subjects: English, Maths, Science, ICT,  Modern Foreign Languages, Art, Humanities, Design and Technology, Music, PE, Drama and PSE. The Lower Secondary Years provide a foundation for success in IGCSE and IB examinations, so at ISB we are keen to provide a curriculum that will enable students to achieve success at these levels.

We at ISB feel that one of our greatest strengths is the international make-up of our student body and, the school is capitalizing on this through significant curriculum changes. We have introduced a new Humanities programme into Year Seven that will continue throughout the Lower School in the next two years. The Humanities Department has rewritten their curriculum to focus on local and regional history and geography which is more relevant to our students, and allows many more opportunities for research and investigations outside the classroom.

The secondary school has also begun a formal Gifted and Talented programme to identify and help our brightest students. We have already begun to identify such students through the introduction this year of CATS (Cognitive Ability Tests) in years Seven and Nine, which give us information about the current ability of students and their potential performance levels at the end of Year Nine and Eleven.  This information provided by these tests will help staff to set targets and monitor more accurately the progress of our students from their first term in the Secondary School.

At ISB we continue to provide many extra-curricular activities to provide an all-round education for Lower Secondary students. Each student is a member of one of three 'houses': red, yellow or blue. There are several competitive school sports events each year including Sports Day and the Swimming Gala. In these events students compete both as individuals for rosettes and in their house team for a trophy.  The annual FOBISSEA Games (Federation of British International School in South and East Asia) provides an opportunity for our most able athletes to compete against the best in the region. In recent years, as well as hosting the games we have sent our under 13 and under 15 teams to Thailand and Malaysia.

Our school is justly proud to be an IB school, and one of the key elements of the IB programme is the CAS (Creativity, Action, Service) component whereby students perform 180 hours of extra curricular activities in these three areas in Years 12 and 13. We have decided to introduce this programme into the Lower School to prepare students for the challenge of IB, to develop the altruistic side of the student and to encourage and give proper recognition to the activities that students undertake outside the classroom. As record of their commitment to this programme all students record their CAS activities in their planners and opportunities will be given for students to be involved in local and overseas projects and expeditions.

As the Lower Secondary Co-ordinator, I can assure each parent of students in the Lower Secondary section of the school that we strive to ensure that our mission statement, '...an enriching and challenging education with a global outlook', is an everyday reality for your child.

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Yr 7 Homework Project Booklet

Homework Timetable Term 2 & 3 2011 – 2012

Year 9 should spend up to 40mins.for each subject set

Art as required

Year 9 should spend up to 40mins.for each subject set

Art as required

Year 9 should spend up to 40mins.for each subject set  

Art as required

Year 8 should spend up to 30mins.for each subject set

Art as required

Year 8 should spend up to 30mins.for each subject set

Art as required

 Year 8 should spend up to 30mins.for each subject set

Art as required 

Year 7 should spend up to 20mins.for each subject set

Art as required 

Year 7 should spend up to 20mins.for each subject set

Art as required

Year 7 should spend up to 20mins.for each subject set

Art as required