Our Curriculum

ISC follows the English National Curriculum.  With teachers acting as guides and facilitators of learning, students spend most of their time in research, “hands-on” activities, dialogue, and discussion.  Studies are approached with an emphasis on depth of understanding and interpretation from a number of perspectives.

The Project Approach

The Project Approach refers to a set of teaching strategies which enable teachers to guide children through in-depth studies of real world topics. Projects are described as having a complex but flexible structural framework with features that characterize the teaching-learning interaction. When teachers implement the Project Approach successfully, children can be highly motivated, feel actively involved in their own learning, and produce work of a high quality.

Projects enrich young children's dramatic play, construction, painting and drawing by relating these activities to life outside school. Project work offers older children opportunities to do first hand research in science and social studies and to represent their findings in a variety of ways. Children also have many occasions in the course of their project work to apply basic math and language skills and knowledge.

The description of a project can be like a good story with a beginning, a middle and an end. Teachers and children can tell the story with reference to these three phases in the life of the project.