Pearson International Lower Secondary Year 7

Programs

International Lower Secondary

Year 7

STI School Academy offers International Lower Secondary program including Secondary year 7, 8 and 9 for the students who completed primary education.

Upon successful completion of Primary 6 course, students can be eligible to enroll Secondary - Year 7.

Based on global curriculum, this Secondary year 7 program provides world-class education for students aged between 11 and 12. Moreover, this will be one of the robust preliminary programs for students who aim to step forward to IGCSE. Throughout the program, students will have to be dealing with English, Mathematics, Science and Computing subjects.

Subject Overview

MATHEMATICS

 

The iLowerSecondary Mathematics curriculum contains four main strands, with each split into sub-strands. The curriculum promotes engagement and enjoyment while ensuring students are well placed to achieve highly in later examinations.

 

The curriculum is designed to ensure that key Mathematics skills are properly embedded and that students are secure in their understanding of the concepts needed to be strong mathematicians. Developed with the needs of EAL learners in mind, the iLowerSecondary Mathematics curriculum gives an excellent platform for later learning and ensures students are well prepared for their International GCSEs learning from Year 10.

SCIENCE

The iLower Secondary Science curriculum contains four main strands, with each split into topic areas. The curriculum promotes engagement and enjoyment while ensuring students are well placed to achieve highly in later examinations.

• Scientific Enquiry

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Physics

Scientific enquiry is embedded within the other three strands and students are encouraged to take an engaged and investigative approach to their learning. Developed with the needs of EAL learners in mind, the iLowerSecondary Science curriculum gives an excellent platform for later learning and ensures students are well prepared for their International GCSEs learning from Year 10.

COMPUTING

Our Computing programme has been developed in conjunction with leading education and industry experts to ensure that the skills being developed at primary and lower secondary level prepare students for International GCSE and beyond.

 

This programme is structured around the 4 cornerstones of computational thinking:

• Decomposition

• pattern recognition

• abstraction

• algorithm design

 

It will equip students to:

• Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.

• Analyse problems in computational terms, write computer programmes, evaluate and apply information technology and solve problems.

• Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

 

ENGLISH

The iLowerSecondary English curriculum contains two main strands, with each split into sub-strands. Speaking and Listening skills are woven throughout the objectives to support learning. The curriculum promotes engagement and enjoyment while ensuring students are well placed to achieve highly in later examinations.