Curriculum
Our curriculum is meticulously crafted to cultivate critical thinking, curiosity, and a passion for learning among all students, irrespective of their backgrounds, talents, and requirements. It serves as a gateway to opportunities and a rewarding, prosperous life, not only in modern Bangladesh but also beyond.
With a focus on academic excellence, our curriculum is comprehensive and well-rounded. We prioritize proficiency in Literacy, Numeracy, Languages, Humanities, and Science. It is structured to be both cohesive and progressive, recognizing the pivotal role of knowledge acquisition.
Our curriculum aims to:
- To transform the educational achievement of our young people.
- To deliver a knowledge-rich curriculum with rigour and high expectations in order to maximise academic outcomes for pupils and prepare them successfully for their future destinations.
- To mold pupils into active Bangladeshi citizens, with a sense of responsibility for their actions.
- To encourage pupils’ social participation within their community.
- To promote the development and nurturing of young leaders.
- To give pupils a practical and more successful understanding of their rights and responsibilities in society.
- To allow pupils to develop their individuality and creativity.
- To promote the physical and mental development of pupils.
- To empower pupils with the necessary skills and abilities to play a full and inclusive role within society, consistent and comfortable with their beliefs and principles.
- To fulfill trust and statutory requirements.
- To support the mission, vision and values of the trust and its establishments
EISD Curriculum Offer
The curriculum will bring to life the following three golden threads to help realise our vision: nurturing today’s young people, inspiring tomorrow’s leaders:
Educational Excellence • Character Development • Service to Communities
The three individual elements of learning contribute to the education of the whole child. Intellectual, personal and social maturity will be the goal of these structured layers of learning at the school.
Element 1: Educational Excellence.
The curriculum will be knowledge-rich and subject content will largely be driven by the British National Curriculum and by specifications of the Cambridge Curriculum. The school believes that every pupil can benefit from an ambitious, rich and deep, academic curriculum that is supplemented by vocational courses to provide a breadth of experience. The school will also provide opportunities for learning in performance and creative arts – including iMedia, drama and/or art. Furthermore, students should also have teaching related to technical learning – including subjects such as computer science. Element 1 will be delivered mainly through the formal taught curriculum.
Element 2: Character Development
Concurrently with the core academic curriculum, students will participate in a programme of leadership development organised around EISD five leadership foundations of sport, creativity, performing arts, enterprise and careers, charity and social action.
The leadership specialism will help pupils develop key personal skills and aptitudes, including oral communication, personal effectiveness, entrepreneurship, self-actualisation, problem-solving and enhanced emotional intelligence. Through a focused and integrated approach to arts, culture and tradition, pupils will benefit from deep learning through direct experiences, visual displays, handling artifacts, live performances, cultural exchanges and outside visits. These extracurricular dimensions of learning will be at the heart of the school. Character Development will mainly be delivered through the PSHE curriculum including extra-curricular activities linked to each subject and through pupils’ independent studies in their own time.
Element 3: Service to Communities
Enter to Learn. Leave to Serve. The curriculum for this element is linked to leadership foundation of EISD and will be structured to help the development of social enterprise, volunteering and service to communities. Pupils will acquire, through a range of individualised programmes, insights into social education and experiential community activities; with ‘hands-on’ and participative learning at the fore. For example, senior pupils may have the opportunity to undertake an extended placement working for a charity or for another community organisation. As this element is based on pupil voluntary work, there will only be limited taught time in school. All pupils on IGSCE path will aim to undertake 50 hours of voluntary work a year. Pupils’ efforts will be rewarded through the GEMS Diploma
Academics
At EISD we offer Playgroup to A’ Level classes of an international standard. EISD has designed an extensive curriculum for all classes (Playgroup to Grade 12) leading to the University of Cambridge International Examinations Ordinary and Advanced Level General Certificate of Education. Cambridge O’ Level is an internationally recognised qualification equivalent to Cambridge IGCSE and UK GCSE. Cambridge O’ Level provides learners with excellent preparation for academic progression to Cambridge Advanced as well as other progression routes.
At EISD, we follow the prestigious Cambridge Pathway system from the junior grades leading to O’ level and A’ level.
Primary
At EISD, we follow the prestigious Cambridge Pathway system to help our learners be ready for the world. The Pathway offers five stages of education from age 3 to 19, leading seamlessly from early years to pre-university. Each stage builds on the previous and further shapes learners’ knowledge, understanding and skills.. The broad, balanced, rich and varied curriculum is flexible and responsive to each child’s wider needs. With personalized teaching and learning practices, our students grow into well-rounded, happy and responsible people ready for an easy transition to the demands of the secondary curriculum.
Cambridge Primary
Our Early years (Playgroup – Kindergarten 2)’ curriculum is based upon four themes and principles:
- Unique Child – Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
- Positive Relationships – Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships.
- Enabling environments – Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences
respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents. - Learning and development – Children develop and learn in different ways. The framework covers the education and care of all children in early years’ provision.
Primary areas of learning
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
- Specific areas of learning
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understand the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
- The curriculum provides a broad range of skills enabling students to build firm foundations and allowing the next blocks to be built through the connecting Pathway curriculum. Our students leave being able to communicate and ask questions, and with the ability to form positive relationships as they transition to the Key Stage 1 Phase
The Key Stage 1 Phase comprises Year 1 and Year 2 and focuses on
providing continuity and progression in learning for students as they
transition from child-initiated play in the early years to more
structured learning experiences. It enables students to experience the
joy of discovery, problem solving and creative thinking to grow
intellectually, socially, mindfully and emotionally.
The curriculum is designed to develop students’ interests to explore and
learn confidently and collaboratively. It promotes an enquiring mind
with the capacity to think rationally through the essential learning
skills of the academic content. We teach our young learners the
following subjects:
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Bangla
- Qur’an – Reading and Memorisation
- Arabic
- Literacy
- ICT
- Numeracy
- Phonics
- Guided Reading
- Emerald Character Development Programme
- Physical Education
- Visual Arts
- Extra-curricular Activities
Assessment of learning is an ongoing process of evaluating, recording,
tracking and reporting progress to inform planning and differentiation
on a daily and unit basis. Learning expectations and progress are
communicated to students through teacher feedback, celebration of
student learning, and opportunities to self-reflect and peer assessment.
Newsletters, parent-teacher conferences, notes in the school diary and
School reports are used for communication between teachers and parents.
Partnership with parents is a powerful tool and we welcome and
appreciate parental support with student learning and school life as we
together prepare them to move on to the Key Stage 2 Phase.
The Key Stage 2 Phase consists of Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 where
students are encouraged to delve deeper and learn through a sense of
enquiry to develop into independent and reflective learners.
Our curriculum provides rich opportunities for collaborative working
through engaging topics. English and Maths are vital and are combined
with stimulating links established through the areas of Humanities,
Science, Drama and Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE). Our
Emerald Character Development Program also starts to feature more
prominently into the students’ academic lives at this stage. The skills
of independent learning and cooperation with others are also developed
along with attitudes and values that ensure progression in the
development of essential life skills. Our curriculum provides
opportunities for learners to interact with global and local cultures
while contributing towards the environment.
A wide range of learning and assessment strategies are applied to suit
the diverse learning styles and needs of students, and Approach to
Mastery helps students master concepts. Homework is given to reinforce
the understanding of concepts learnt in class and helps students work
independently and learn time-management skills. In addition, carefully
planned activities that promote student agency are embedded within the
curriculum.
MIDDLE YEARS
The Middle Years, including Year 6, Year 7 and Year 8, help to ensure successful transitions from Primary to Secondary. The programme is delivered through a thematic curriculum which offers inspirational learning experiences through cross curricular projects, cross phase learning and a challenging Mastery Approach.
Meaningful links are made to the real world and students are encouraged to be independent learners and confident problem solvers. The Middle Years embrace student voice and support learners to become resilient, articulate and reflective global citizens as they move on to Key Stage 4.
SECONDARY YEARS
Our Secondary school gives students a supportive, yet challenging learning environment, helping them acquire lifelong skills. The curriculum is designed to ensure that all students receive a broad, balanced and clearly articulated learning environment, building upon the foundations laid in Middle Years. Students are prepared for the internationally recognised Cambridge O level and A level (Ordinary and Advanced Level General Certificate of Education courses) through exciting, application based classroom teaching and learning.
KS4
Year 9 is the first year of Key Stage 4. The Year 9 curriculum is broad and balanced. The subjects studied in Year 9 are:
- English
- Mathematics
- Bangla
- Qur’an – Reading and Memorisation
- Arabic
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Physics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- ICT
- Public Speaking – The art of verbal communication with audience
- Entrepreneurship
- Business Studies
- Economics
- Accountancy
- Visual Arts
- Emerald Character Development Programme
- Physical Education
Extra-curricular Activities
Cambridge O’ Level and A’ Level examinations are internationally recognised qualifications that empower students with fundamental skills and knowledge in a wide range of subjects, instilling intellectual curiosity and promoting intercultural understanding. EISD creates global citizens to meet the frequently changing socio-cultural environment of the recent time, believing in the statement – ALLAH in our hearts, the world in our hands!