Rome international school 'What We Offer' 2012 - 2013

The school can continue to offer EAL support lessons and the possibility ofintensive English, both within the normal school timetable, the latter at the parentsexpense. If the school deems it unrealistic at the end of Grade 9 that an internalstudent would be able to cope with the demands of the High School programmesthen parents will be advised accordingly and enrolment into the High Schooldenied.• Progression within the High School (Grade 10 through to 13)Due to the challenging academic demands of the GCSE/IGCSE and IB DiplomaProgrammes progression should not be considered as automatic from grade tograde. At the end of Grades 10 and 12, students will be expected to pass ourinternal end of year exams and have achieved a satisfactory report. If this is notthe case they will be expected to repeat the grade successfully before furtherprogression.Progression from Grade 11 (GCSE) to Grade 12 (IB Diploma) for our internalstudents is subject to the attainment of:• at least a C GCSE grade in all subjects chosen at Standard Level for theIB Diploma package; and• at least a B GCSE grade in all subjects chosen at Higher Level for the IBDiploma package.It should be further noted that students wishing to take Higher Level Mathematicsare expected to have a minimum ‘A’ grade at GCSE.Our Italian mother-tongue students will also be expected to achieve a minimum Cgrade in our internal Italian Literature examination. If these requirements are notmet students will be expected to repeat the grade and achieve the necessaryresults before progression to the IB Diploma Programme. All IB DP packageoptions will be confirmed or discussed further as relevant after the issue of theGCSE/IGCSE results in August.In the event of a student deciding against repeating Grade 11 and without thepossibility of being accepted onto our IB Diploma programme, there is thepossibility of transferring to an Italian school with certain requirements. RomeInternational School would give advice on this if and when necessary.Although we expect to anticipate a student’s likelihood of encountering difficultiesin passing the IB Diploma in good time, in exceptional circumstances it is possiblefor a student to revert to taking a selection of individual IB certificates in certainsubjects, rather than the full IB Diploma. However, this is an option that we do notencourage and families should be aware that the student will, in thesecircumstances, have a limited range of university options (certainly not the best‘What we offer’ 2012 -­‐ 2013 7