Academics

Education at NIS is characterized by the following educational and organizational starting-points:

1. Heterogeneous groups
2. Education is adaptive and effective
3. Independent working forms
4. International Primary Curriculum (IPC)

Heterogeneous Groups means that children of different ages and different developmental stages are educated together within one same group. At NIS usually two learning years are placed in one group. Studies show heterogeneous group formation greatly stimulates education.
With adaptive education, we can better tune into instruction on differentiation in foreknowledge within pupils in a group. The starting point begins with what pupils already know. From there, a new link is being formed to acquire new knowledge.

Independent working forms means that at certain times of the day the children can decide for themselves what tasks they want to perform or in what corner of the class they want to explore. This stimulates self-reliance and self-responsibility in children.

IPC is education through projects in the form of a ‘unit’, in which every ‘unit’ has concrete goals and activities in a fixed structure.