Welcome to
the Key Stage 2 (KS2) section of Al Ain English Speaking
School’s website. This department consists of four parallel
classes of Year 3, 4, 5 and 6. As in the rest of the school,
the British National Curriculum forms the core of our curriculum
but is enriched by variations appropriate to our location and
students. We also provide Arabic classes for all students and
Islamic studies for Muslim students.
In addition
to the normal calendar based on the British National Curriculum,
we have interspersed many additional creative and imaginative
themed days. The children take trips to bring their studies to
life and have many hands-on activities so that we enable
children to learn through their multiple-intelligences of
kinesthetic, visual and auditory learning.
In KS2, the
curriculum consists of weekly sessions of English, Maths,
Science, ICT, History, Geography, Art, Music, French, PSHCE,
Arabic, PE and Islamic studies for Muslim students. The
children also have weekly sessions in the Library in which they
are able to listen to stories and choose books to read at home.
In order to
enrich the curriculum, the students in KS2, also have extra
curriculum activities once a week. These are after school on a
Wednesday. The children select an activity for the term; there
are various options and the choices are driven by the student’s
preferences. Current examples include, cricket, art and design
technology.
The Year
six children participate in the Standard Achievement Tasks (SAT’s).
These are delivered in exactly the same way as the UK but marked
internally. The children are not ‘taught to test’ but are
encouraged to understand the skills being taught and to be able
to explain their learning. Many practical activities are
included in all curriculum areas in order that the children have
the opportunity to link skills taught in all subject areas into
their daily activities.
