Year 7 class open for enrolments now!
If you are going into Year 7, aged 11-12, and want to investigate, experiment, create, design, express, challenge, connect, understand and make a difference, then join us –we’d love you to be here.
You will be welcomed by a creative, enthusiastic, purpose-filled group of students and an experienced, knowledgeable and talented team of teaching professionals. Together, they are building the foundations of iCAN Secondary School—and it’s going to be great!
iCAN International School, Phnom Penh offers:
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· British National Curriculum adapted for our students
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· Qualified and experienced expatriate subject specialist teachers
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· Excellent facilities
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· Modern classrooms with interactive whiteboards
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· Family environment
KS3 is a particularly important time in a young person's life as they grow from child to adolescent. These are vitally important years for laying the foundations for life-long learning and influencing the crucial decisions pupils will make about their lives and futures. The iCAN School community is committed to supporting all aspects of our pupils' development during this exciting and challenging phase of each child's life.
The August 2008 Year 7 class will share the Primary School campus and remain a valuable part of the iCAN School community. This should ensure smooth transition to a more Secondary ethos and the KS3 curriculum. Within the British National Curriculum Year 5 to Year 8 are referred to as Middle School. Middle School classes are taught in very much the same way as classes are taught now at iCAN: using a number of specialist teachers and maintaining a class teacher for a significant percentage of the curriculum.
National Curriculum subjects taught in KS3 are:
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· English · Geography · Physical Education and Sport |
· Mathematics · History · Modern Foreign Languages |
· Science · Music · ICT |
· Art and Design · Design and Technology · Personal, Social and Health Education |
In KS3 the National Curriculum determines the content of our planning and sets attainment targets (goals) for pupils' learning. At iCAN, we base our Year 7 teaching programme around the framework and guidelines of KS3, the curriculum designed for children of 11 – 14 years.
The Year 7 curriculum is based on the new British National Curriculum. There is significant flexibility within the National Curriculum that enables us to build our own curriculum that reflects our local context and meets our learners’ needs, capabilities and aspirations. Units of learning are topic-based encouraging cross-curriculum learning. English and Mathematics remain core subjects as well as being practised and re-inforced through other subject areas.
Our challenge is to create a curriculum that:
· motivates and engages learners
· creates opportunities for pupils to participate actively and engage in meaningful ways as they learn.
· develops learning skills as well as content knowledge (facts)
· fosters confidence, understanding, responsibility and empathy in an increasingly globalised and inter-connected world
· ensures that assessment supports effective teaching and learning
The table below gives details of the main content areas of the English, Mathematics and Science curriculum at KS3. Detailed information on the British National Curriculum can be found at http://curriculum.qca.org.uk/curriculum-in-action/secondary