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IB is an acronym for International Baccalaureate, an education system established by the UNESCO Non-Profit Education Fund in the 1960s for the children of diplomats in various countries that transcends national boundaries. The IB PYP is the primary school programme, MYP is the secondary school programme and DP is the pre-university programme.

ISA Wuhan adopts the IB framework and adopts a "reverse" approach to curriculum development, following the sequence of "training objectives → desired career → required knowledge, abilities, and qualities → curriculum and teaching content", helping students to find the most appropriate way to explore the world while implementing a whole-person education.

In addition to the six IBDP subject groups and three core curricular, the school offers over 40 CCA, including equestrian, fencing, swimming, and golf. The school also provides a one-to-one guidance service to help students find their own university pathways and strengths.

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Of all the international curriculum systems, only the IB programme offers a full school-age curriculum for Primary Year Programme (IBPYP), Middle Year Programme (IBMYP) and Diploma Programme (IBDP), with AL and AP only covering the high school level. The three mainstream international programmes have their own characteristics in terms of curriculum structure, examination methods and progression to higher education. The IBDP programme offers a mix of arts and science subjects to better support students in developing their overall abilities; the AP (Advanced Placement) programme is a university-level pre-requisite course offered at high school level; and the A Level programme is the UK's General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCE) Advanced Level programme. It is also a university entrance exam course for UK students, somewhat similar to the GCE.

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Adapted Language Teaching

All IB schools have a strong focus on language learning, with a strong emphasis on the development of the native language as well as the acquisition of another language. The school has a weekly English curriculum (eg. 5 lessons) based on grade level and each classroom is taught in a tiered format, with teachers designing different teaching styles within each class according to the child's language ability, to achieve adaptability of studying.

1:4 Teacher-Student Ratio; Tutorial System

Each student is assigned to a classroom teacher, a language teacher, a subject teacher, a DP coordinator, and a university counselor to help them explore their potential.

ISA Wuhan Pastoral Care

Through boarding services, home-school communication, student management, mentorship and House System, ISA Wuhan creates a positive and inclusive school community culture for students and achieves the goal of nurturing the total person in IB.

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The IB curriculum is the gold standard of the international curriculum. To accommodate the use of the curriculum in different countries, the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) does not have a fixed version of teaching textbooks for the curriculum, and teachers in different IB schools need to create their own IBDP materials and textbooks to meet the requirements and standards of the DP curriculum, while taking into account their own regional culture and drawing on quality teaching resources from around the world.

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ISA Wuhan includes all mainstream courses, your child’s university pathway to choose is still based on the student's own strengths and wishes, parents are advised to meet with our admissions officers, principals or take the admissions assessment to get professional advice on the pathway.

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Our principals and our admissions team will give a professional recommendation for admission based on the results of the admissions assessment. If your child pass the assessment criteria this means that the child has the language skills and all the qualities required to study the IBDP.

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The IBDP is a balanced, liberal arts and science curriculum, and there are many real-life examples of students from public school backgrounds who have been able to adapt to the IBDP with a strong support system from the school and the teaching staff at Guangzhou Foreign Language School.

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ISA adopts a multiple assessment system and admission to ISA is not only based on students' examination results. We will arrange for students and parents to meet with the principal to match the curriculum with the child's assessment results and personal preference. 

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We have a one-to-one personalised and customised application pathway with a 1:3 teacher-student ratio, a 3:2 ratio of Chinese to foreign teachers, teachers from top universities in over 40 countries or regions, and students can obtain letters of recommendation from alumni teachers at their intended schools, providing a more competitive candidature.

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The design of the campus is based on our curriculum, with the principals and Academic Heads involved in the entire process of designing the campus from the outset, from classroom layout to world-class teaching facilities and equipment, to make it truly 'learner-focused'. Our campus is designed by CPG, the world's leading architectural team, the campus includes a 50m Olympic swimming pool, a 1,000-person auditorium, a standard sports field and 400m running track, an indoor gymnasium, a library, a Black-box Theatre, international student boarding houses and other top-notch campus facilities. We are committed to making total person education happen in every aspect of campus life.