Welcome to TCSI primary section. The Primary section starts from Year 1 and spreads to Year 6. Year 1 and Year 2 are on the ground floor. Whereas Year 3 to 6 are on the first floor. Key stage 1 classes (Year 1 and 2) are designed to make a smooth transition from FS to the primary section with homeroom teacher and assistant teacher in every class. Years 3 to 6 have subject specialized teachers.
Each year-group has three or four classes together. Other facilities include our Art, Library, Music and a Computing rooms.
School Playground is systematically equipped to enhance the outdoor learning environment – with dedicated spaces and a play timetable for primary students. The playground also has a green area, football and basketball.
Both the indoor and outdoor learning environments are continually reviewed and developed.
At TCSI, we strive to make our children passionate about learning and make their learning as much fun and as meaningful and relevant as possible. We offer children an excellent education in a safe, calm, creative, inclusive and stimulating environment. Every child is valued as an individual; we aim to nurture well rounded, respectful and confident children who will develop skills for life-long learning. We nurture our children on their journey and encourage them to be creative, unique, open-minded and independent individuals, respectful of themselves and of others in our school, our local community and the wider world. We take our responsibility to prepare children for life in the future very seriously and ensure that the fundamental Human Values are introduced, discussed and lived out through the ethos and work of our school.
TCSI offers the National Curriculum for England supplemented by the UAE Ministry of Education. The school is geared to prepare students for British IGCSE examinations.
The students are encouraged to be independent learners, collaborate with their peers, gain conceptual clarity through asking questions, analyse and evaluate situations/ideas. They enhance their creativity through a variety of opportunities within classrooms and beyond. TCSI caters to the needs of children aged 3 to 16. The detail of subjects offered at the primary section is as follows:
Foundation Subjects: Music, Computing, PE, Library, Art, Moral Education, Moral Studies for Non-Muslims (programme based on living moral values such as Honesty, Truthfulness, Cooperation, Respect).
Foundation Subjects: Social Studies, History, Geography, Music, Computing, Physical Education, Library, Art, Moral Education, Moral Studies for Non-Muslims (programme based on living moral values such as Honesty, Truthfulness, Cooperation, Respect), Foreign languages – French
At TCSI, we aim to provide a highly effective education which prepares students for life, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to contribute to a thriving society. It is our intention to enable all students to acquire knowledge that takes them beyond their personal experience, exposing them to the powerful knowledge of each subject discipline.
We intend that all students secure fundamental literacy and numeracy as well as giving them the knowledge, skills and confidence they will need to succeed in the 21st Century world. This will provide young people with understanding and motivation for further studies and enable them to make informed decisions in their everyday lives, including about their education and employment.
It is our intention to inspire young people and enable each child to discover the joy of learning and to nurture their individual talents, helping them to fulfill every aspect of their potential and to encourage their growth into ambitious and effective citizens, ready to play their part in their community and the world.
To equip students to contribute to a thriving society we believe that our role is to develop students who:
We recognise that barriers and disadvantages are inherent in wider society and therefore intend, through our curriculum, to limit the impact of bias, including relating to gender, ethnicity and disability. We acknowledge the challenges experienced by many of our students in becoming fluent English speakers, whilst valuing greatly the richness that diversity contributes to our school community.
The curriculum is the substance of what learners know and can do. Through our curriculum, we intend that students will be able to know more, do more and remember more.
What students learn is organised into a framework, sequenced appropriately for each subject discipline, creating carefully designed programmes of study. The curriculum is rich in scope. It fulfills the National curriculum and exceeds it through the inclusion of locally relevant content and activities such as subject wise weeks, sporting competitions and students’ leadership, which increase the breadth of the offer for students.
The curriculum design has inter-disciplinary links made, where they naturally occur. Each subject discipline has its own timetabled space to ensure students know which subjects they are studying and can make connections with prior learning.
As the progression model, the curriculum builds on the foundational learning which begins in the Early Years. Our learning journeys are sequenced to enable students to make connections with previous learning, enriching their schemata as they progress through each stage of the curriculum. Connections to future learning are explicitly highlighted so that students recognise the purpose of learning specific knowledge and skills, and the relevance of current learning in their learning journey.
The curriculum emphasises knowledge, supported by communication and language development, and provides a secure base on which to develop skills, including those needed for problem solving and innovation.
Curriculum booklet is shared with the parents at the beginning of the year. Weekly plans are shared every Friday afternoon to keep the parents informed about what is being done in the classroom.
For information about uniform, timing assessments and all other school policies, revisit the school policies to learn more.