SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENT - PARENT HANDBOOK

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• expand their linguistic competence through the study of one or more additional languages • develop a sense of international awareness and genuine respect for perspectives different from their own In practice this means that • The school should work with parents to foster the best environment for language learning, recognizing that a great deal of language learning takes place at home. • The school should work with parents to ensure the best possible language program for individual students. • All teachers should recognize that they are language teachers as well as subject teachers. • Normally, students will be expected to speak only English in all classes in which English is the teaching language • Students must be given the opportunity, wherever possible, to continue learning their best language and/or mother tongue. • Students should not be admitted unless they have a mother tongue or first language proficiency which is deemed to be age-appropriate. • To support their integration into the host community, provision is made for all students to learn German. • Students will be assessed individually on their standards in English and German when they enter the school. When a student has limited knowledge of English, extra support in English will be provided and the development of English given initial priority. 11. QUALIFICATIONS FROM ISD ISD awards a Certificate of Attendance and an ISD Diploma. In addition, students may also earn the external International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma or individual IB certificates. In certain circumstances, the German 10 th grade diploma may also be awarded. ISD CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE: is for students who have attended school for twelve or more years, and who have been enrolled at ISD for at least one academic year, but who have failed to meet the requirements for award of the ISD Diploma. Recipients of this certificate may subsequently be awarded the ISD Diploma if they make up the missing requirements within one year of the end of their 12 th grade. ISD DIPLOMA: Students must be enrolled for a minimum of four years in an officially accredited secondary school commencing at ninth grade or its equivalent. At least the final year of study must take place at ISD. To be awarded the ISD diploma a student must have 22
• completed four years of education in G 9-12 or their equivalents. • successfully completed G 9 & 10 (at ISD this normally means having followed years 4 and 5 of the IBMYP, including at least three options) with no more than two final academic achievement grades below 3 in either year. • earned a minimum total of 40 points over G 11 and 12, with no more than four final academic achievement grades below 3, of which no more than two may be earned in 12 th grade. • successfully completed the CAS programme during each year of attendance (G9-12) at ISD. 3 In addition each student should have: • taken at least one year of mainstream English • taken three consecutive years of the same foreign language • studied German to a minimum competency level equivalent to ISD's "Advanced German" (normally three years). There may, under exceptional circumstances, be students for whom these requirements might not be appropriate. In these cases the principal will determine whether or not the student has met the conditions under which an ISD diploma can still be awarded. Students who complete G 11 and 12 or G 12 and 13 at ISD may be awarded the ISD Diploma with High Honors if they i. take the IB Diploma program and ii. have an average at least 43 points (out of 49) over the two years. or they may be awarded the ISD Diploma with Honors if they i. take the IB diploma program and ii. have an average of 40-42 points (out of 49) over the two years or i. do not take the IB Diploma program but. ii. have an average of 43 points (7 subjects), or 37 points (6 subjects) over the two years. IB DIPLOMA The International Baccalaureate Diploma is offered as a supplement to the ISD Diploma. The IB Diploma curriculum is a comprehensive and rigorous two-year program, normally undertaken in G11 & 12. Based on the pattern of no single country, it is a deliberate compromise between the specialization required in some countries and the breadth preferred in others. Since its inception in the 3 This requirement only becomes operative when a CAS programme has been set up in G 6-12. 23
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