
Preparatory Sections
Curriculum Overview
The preparatory stage students are in an overly critical age phase in which a lot of understanding, patience and continuous support are needed.
The preparatory curriculum is national with GEMS approach that meets international standards. In our school we follow the Cross curricular Integration in education that can be found in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and moreover the recently coined STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) learning. These approaches help students to see topics as interdependent and connected rather than individual and isolated subjects.
Students are expected to be fluent in foreign languages in addition to their own mother tongue. The differentiation between the three branches of General Science is now evident, while the Social Studies curriculum has become more elaborate. By the end of this stage, students sit ministerial exams that are set and marked externally. The importance of this stage lies in setting the foundation of the students’ future choice for his area of specialization. .