Primary Curriculum – British International School,Ajman

Welcome to BIS Primary!

Cambridge Primary encourages learners to understand their own culture, community and identity within the wider world. We want to celebrate local culture while helping learners to discuss global issues. Activities in our schemes of work are internationally focused but they can be applied in all local contexts so that learners can develop a broad outlook.

Grades 2 to 4

Meet Our Students

A robust foundation with excellent progression

At BIS we offer a strong foundation for students at the beginning of their schooling before progressing through the Cambridge Pathway in an age-appropriate way. We need to make sure that even the youngest students are learning the right things at the right time.

We provide curriculum frameworks with progression grids to show teachers what comes before and after. Teachers can focus on teaching, knowing that the sequencing of learning aligns from stage to stage. Students will be familiar with content and skills from the previous stage and well prepared for the next.

A broad curriculum for a balanced education

With a choice of 10 subjects, a wide range of support and optional assessments, you will find plenty to help you deliver core subjects as well as develop creativity, expression and wellbeing. A range of subjects makes sure that teaching and learning appeal to many different students and prepares them for future learning by introducing them to new topics. Teachers can enjoy a stimulating and varied curriculum, which challenges and inspires students to be lifelong learners.

Ongoing assessment ensures that each student’s progress and development is continuous and meets predetermined standards. We encourage students to think independently, take initiative and participate in a meaningful and active manner in their learning process.

Subjects and progression

Core subjects include English, Mathematics, Science and MOE subjects Arabic, Islamic Education and Social studies. We also provide children the creative subjects to supplement learning through Art, Physical Education, ICT, Robotics in grades 3 & 4, Library and French and Urdu are offered from Grade 2 as an additional language for all students. Students may opt for either of the two.

E-safety, Digital Citizenship and Moral education are integrated in all subjects and are taught separately as well to enable our students to meet the needs of technology in the future.

Assessment

As per our assessment policy, we aim to raise standards of achievement throughout the school and to ensure consistency in assessing achievement and identifying achievable targets for each.
Teachers use both formative and summative assessment tools to gather the best evidence to identify students’ progress and achievement as per the curriculum standards through ongoing assessment.