Teaching and learning at KIST represents a partnership between our school, our students, and our parents. Our Teaching and Learning policy makes explicit the school expectations with regards to the roles of each stakeholder group in supporting learning.

view our Teaching and Learning Policy here

With regards to our curricular programming, upon evaluating various curricula from around the world, KIST chose to adopt the world-renowned International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (K1 to Grade 5), Middle Years Programme (Grades 6 to 10) and Diploma Programme (Grades 11 and 12) as the most appropriate curriculum frameworks for our school.

These IB programs focus on the total growth of the child, affecting hearts, as well as minds and addressing social, physical, emotional and cultural needs in addition to academic welfare. KIST believes that the inquiry-based approach to education provides students with the opportunity to take responsibility for their own learning. Class inquiries may take the form of:

• Exploring, wondering and questioning.
• Experimenting and playing with possibilities.
• Researching and seeking information.
• Collecting data and reporting findings.
• Clarifying existing ideas and reappraising events.
• Deepening understanding through the application of a concept or rule.
• Making and testing theories.
• Making predictions and acting purposefully to see what happens.
• Elaborating on solutions to problems.

Through this approach we aim to guide students in developing problem solving skills and research skills that will allow them to not only cope with a rapidly changing world, but help them to become lifelong learners and productive members of our global community.

Overarching all three IB programmes is the learner profile which is defined by a list of behaviors that the programmes intend to develop in all children in all school cultures. The learner profile encourages children to be:

Curriculum explanation sessions are scheduled throughout the year for families to learn more about the nature of the curriculum, the learning methods focused on and other general expectations. All parents/guardians are encouraged to attend these sessions in order to gain the knowledge necessary to be able to provide appropriate support to their children.