At BIS we are committed to supporting students to become reflective and responsible global citizens, which have the skills to thrive in a 21st century global context. Globally we are in a period of time where technological development is moving forward at such a pace that we are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems, we don’t even know are problems yet.
In order to fully prepare our KS3 student to possess the appropriate skills for the future, many of our teaching professionals have been involved in reviewing our assessment model over the past 12 months.
Our new model consists of three categories of Learning Ambitions:
- Ways of Being
- Ways of Thinking
- Ways of Doing.
This move promotes key academic skills in our KS3 students, as well as developing the key characteristics that are central to our focus on effort. Furthermore, all of these skills and characteristics have been chosen because they provide a direct link to the IB Learner Profile, a course that we hope our students achieve in during their academic career with us.