Academics
Education at Cambridge International School
The Cambridge Innovative School has continued to build and extend its commitment to enhancing its facilities and towards the all-round development of its students. Ample opportunities are made available to students to engage in academic and other activities. Our goal has been to maximize the use of space in an environmentally responsible and sustainable fashion.
Primary School Education
Age Group — 6-11 Years
Cambridge Innovative School offers a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based for the young girls to start the journey of education without burden or fear. Nurturing environment of opportunities helps in academic and co-scholastic develop curiosity unlimited, which ensures that students have fun, play and aim to achieve high.
Primary education consists of an year cycle: first to fifth classes. The primary curriculum aims to provide a broad learning experience and encourages a rich variety of approaches to teaching and learning that cater to the varied needs of individual children. The primary curriculum is designed to nurture the child in all dimensions of his or her life—spiritual, moral, cognitive, emotional, imaginative, aesthetic, social and physical.
Curriculum
The Primary School Curriculum outlines the contents of children’s learning—the what and how of children’s learning—for children’s first eight years in school, from junior infants to sixth class. The curriculum aims to:
- Develop each child’s potential to the full
- Encourage love of learning
- Help children develop skills which will be useful throughout life
The curriculum has range of Subjects:
- Language: English, Punjabi, Hindi and French
- Mathematics
- Social Science: History, Geography and Civics
- Arts education: Visual Arts, Music and Drama
- Physical education
- Value Education with Real Projects
- Spiritual Education
- Activities and Clubs are core of learning-teaching.
Assessment
Assessment in Primary School is about building a picture over time of a child’s learning progress across the curriculum. The teacher uses different ways to gather evidence about how and what the child learns on an ongoing basis. This information is used to celebrate the child’s current learning, and to help make decisions about next steps for future learning.
Middle School Programme CBSE
During the middle school, the student’s intellectual, aesthetic, physical and cultural growth is intensified and extended. It is at this stage school parents play pivotal role in shaping Girls as confident and resilient individuals.
Interdisciplinary methods of teaching help to explore beyond limited learning, peer interactions and presentations help each girl to be socially aware and active.
Setting a high standard facilitates the smooth transition from childhood to adolescence. Students are given confidence that they can succeed. They are made active partners by building respectful teacher-learner relationships that take learners’ viewpoint and experiences into account. Pastoral care is given equal value for creating the feeling of belonging for students to be independent thinkers.
Using assessment for learning to help learners assess their work, reflect on how they learn, and become active members of the process.
Clubs and Activities are carefully planned to balance the physical and mental growth.
Subjects at the middle level:
- Scholastic
- English, Hindi/ Punjabi, Third language, Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, Computer Education.
- Non-Scholastic
- Art and Craft, Music, Dance, Sports, Swimming, Home Science, Robotics, Drama, Theatre and Arts.
The Secondary School
Stepping Into Life
Knowledge and skills gained during the Middle School years equip children with a firm foundation in the core subjects and develop strong learning skills to pursue a variety of educational streams in future.
Opportunities are provided to research, solve problems and make considered decisions so that over a period our students achieve self-reliance in learning and develop confidence and an understanding of the learning process.
Leadership is nurtured through various opportunities to lead, organise events for academic and social areas. At this stage, we believe, each girl is to be nurtured to be brave, intelligent and resilient. We aim ours students to be women of vision and make the world better.
Subject at the Secondary Level:
- Scholastic
- English, Hindi/Punjabi, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Computer Education, and Optional subjects from the vocational and mainstream studies.
- Non-Scholastic
- Art and Craft, Music, Dance, Sports, Swimming, Home Science, Robotics, Drama, Theatre, Language Arts.
The Senior Secondary School
This is the plus two stage in the 10+2 pattern of education leading to the All India Senior Secondary Education examination conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi.
Study in this phase becomes more specialised and students become focussed on future career targets. Specialist teaching is emphasised with the options of choices from Humanities, Commerce, and Sciences. But these do not limit our Girls from dreaming, they are motivated to take up their passion.
Our school is well resourced with excellent caring staff, facilities, equipment and technology for their future to be as per their dreams.
Our commitment for future prepared students is not only an objective but a commitment to not let these valuable years be lost. Along with core subjects of sciences, commerce and humanities, we provide Liberal Arts possibilities with subjects like Psychology, Cosmetology, Food Technology, Fashion Technology, Information Technology, Legal studies.
Special care is taken to offer subjects that are contemporary and relevant for the future career. Diverse subject combinations are offered to make this crucial phase of schooling joyous and stress free.
From here our students are ready to take charge of themselves and others.