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Our Primary Virtual School

What you and your child can expect from their virtual school.

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What is the Nord Anglia Virtual School Experience?

Even when our campus is closed, we can welcome our students into the classroom through our Virtual School Experience. Our high-quality teachers will continue to bring personalised learning to your primary school child through innovative and inspiring lessons.

What can you expect?

Every virtual primary school day is an engaging one that brings to life every aspect of your child’s curriculum with plenty of opportunities to interact with their teachers and classmates.
Our virtual school will inspire your child with innovative lessons, unique learning opportunities and high-quality teaching as part of our blended learning approach.

Through our Virtual School Experience your child will:

Participate in real-time lessons through a safe and secure platform
Enjoy a balance of online and offline learning taught by world-class teachers
Receive high-quality, interactive assignments and regular personalised feedback
Complete tasks and activities with their classmates
Develop essential skills and nurture curiosity through independent learning
Participate in a range of activities with students from all over the world through our Global Campus
Enjoy our exclusive learning experiences, developed in collaboration with world-leading institutions like The Juilliard School and MIT

As parents, you will receive regular updates from your child’s teachers on their progress and achievements.

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What is the ICS Virtual School Experience like in Primary?

Our Primary students are engaged each day through learning activities set by their class Teacher and posted on our online learning platform. They communicate through online lessons, Microsoft Teams and other apps such as Showbie and Padlet. Students also meet in small groups with their Teacher.

Learning activities for Primary include:

Unit of Inquiry
Maths
English (Reading, Writing, Grammar)
Specialist lessons (Music, Languages, PE) Spanish and Drama
PSPE Lessons from Ms Hayley

Teachers post videos each day to explain the different tasks. Students watch these videos and then complete any relevant activities set by the Teacher. Students then post their work each day on Seesaw for Teacher approval and feedback. Student attendance is taken daily.

What Parents have said about our Virtual School Experience:

The school response to this has been amazing. My children have been working on their regular day routine since 8:45. Teachers have prepared mini videos with instructions, audio files, scans and google forms, so that children work on each subject as if they were in school. Some teachers even required kids to write “I’m in class” on the message board to make sure they were there and working.

Primary teachers have done an amazing work as well. They are all responding to kids work and their questions under the minute. I’m also impressed with how well organized and on top of things the teachers are. My kids have also been working all day and know exactly what they have to do. Great job!!

Find out more about our online learning, activities and celebrations:

Arts in Action

Celebrating San Isidro Together

Counselling Resources at ICS

Earth Day at ICS

ICS Teaching Heroes

Integrating Current Events Into Our Virtual School Experience

Learning Continuity at ICS

Sharing the Planet: Our Grade 5 PYP Exhibition

Staying Fit and Healthy

Virtual Elections in Grade 5

Virtual Learning in Grades 1, 2 and 3

Virtual Virtuosos