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Learning at ISD

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Students actively and critically acquire new knowledge and skills to solve real world problems. Learning at ISD inspires:

  • Active student learning
  • Acquisition of  new knowledge and skills
  • Authentic, real world problem solving

Languages at ISD

We offer languages at ISD according to the age of the child.

Early years and primary

We offer Bengali language studies for native speakers. Our growing Mother Tongue program is a great way to support our students to maintain their home languages. Bengali and French are available in Primary.

Middle Years

Our Middle Years Program (MYP) students may study additional languages. This provides an opportunity to develop insights into the features, processes and craft of language and the concept of culture. It celebrates the diversity in the ways we live, behave and view the world. 

Acquiring a language(s) opens possibilities to reflect upon and explore cultural perspectives of our own and other communities. There are many other benefits, too: Languages are valued as central to developing critical thinking. They’re considered essential to cultivate intercultural awareness and the development of internationally-minded and responsible members of local, national and global communities
They’re integral to exploring and sustaining personal development and cultural identity, and provide an intellectual framework to support conceptual development
They equip students with the necessary multiliteracy skills and attitudes. This enables them to communicate successfully in various global contexts and build intercultural understanding.
In the MYP programme students are encouraged to study languages and study a language and literature course and a language acquisition course. Placement is based on proficiency. Students who are proficient in both Bengali and English can opt to study two language and literature courses.

Library

The school library actively promotes the philosophy and fundamental concepts of the IB Programmes. These include structured inquiry, holistic education, communication, intercultural awareness and international mindedness. The library aims to facilitate curriculum delivery, and reading for enjoyment, by providing current and relevant resources for the school community.

Advancement Centre

At ISD, we are highly committed to embrace, empower and inspire a diverse range of learners. We believe that learning in a diverse environment can benefit all learners in our community as it reflects the complex society we are preparing our learners for.

The Advancement Centre focuses on providing the best education for all students, with so many neurodiverse brains, every individual student deserves the attention and time to find out in what ways we can connect and create successful learning experiences. 

Our dynamic Advancement Centre team embodies committed and qualified Special Needs professionals and English Language Learning specialists to cater for the needs of all learners in our community. They work together with all teachers, parents and administrators to identify needs, and to design and deliver an effective support programme for every student. We believe that our caring and understanding approach along with our expertise brings out the best in each child we work with. 

Our EAL programme supports all ranges of language needs and is fully integrated into our IB curriculum. It is designed to support each student’s academic learning needs at their respective phase of English proficiency. Learning English can be fun! 

TRIPS & EXCURSIONS

Primary School Trips

School trips are a big part of our school calendar. We actively look for authentic opportunities for our students to better understand the country we live in and how it functions. A great example would be when our Grade 3’s visit a local charity to see how crafts are made to sell and support single mothers in their unit on ‘How We Organize Ourselves’ or when our Nursery class take a trip to a local farm to find out where fresh produce comes from in their unit on ‘Sharing The Planet’’. We also look to instill independence in our students prior to their ‘Week Without Walls’ trips in Secondary by taking them in Grade 4 to Gazipur and in Grade 5 to Sylhet on overnight excursions.

Secondary school trips

Week Without Walls is a full week of experiential learning and service for grades 6, 8 and 10. All trips engage the students in real world learning situations and help them building their social and emotional skills. Students also undertake summative assessments as a direct result of the learning that occurs during the week.