Landmark International School

Primary Curriculum

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Read about our curriculum below or learn more about specific areas on the following pages:

The Primary Years´ Programme -  A Transdisciplinary Approach

Mission

At Landmark we aim to:

Provide a human-centred approach to learning, ensuring that each individual

 is nurtured to be self-directed creative thinkers that contribute to 

making their communities and the world around them a better place.



Landmark International School has achieved authorisation to deliver the International Baccalaureate Primary Years´ Programme (IBPYP). Across the Primary School, our personalised curriculum is designed to challenge, engage and inspire students to develop the knowledge, skills and conceptual understandings that will enable them to succeed as life-long learners. 

The Mission Statement of the IB explains the importance placed on developing students who are agents in their own education journey:

The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

A Landmark Journey

Stepping Stones to Milestones

Every student is on a learning journey, developing their skills step by step to bridge connections in their learning skills, knowledge and understanding. At Landmark we compare these steps to stepping stones, these are the steps that we need to take to become assured in our learning and reach a milestone. We look at this through each of the disciplines that we teach. When students have successfully taken all of the steps in a discipline they complete a milestone and they move on to the next milestone in that discipline. 

Transdisciplinary Learning


In each year of Primary, the students explore relevant and engaging themes through a transdisciplinary approach to learning, allowing them to make connections to the global issues that surround them. The subject areas are integrated to engage them in authentic and relevant experiences, enabling them to explore the themes from a number of perspectives. Through this process students learn how no discipline acts in isolation, but can be synthesised with other disciplines to develop new knowledge and understanding. Students have the opportunity to build their conceptual understandings, knowledge and skills through the six themes:

Who we are

How we express ourselves

Where we are in place and time

How we organise ourselves

How the world works

Sharing the planet

Inquiry-led, concept-based learning


Each theme is given a focus to contextualise the learning, for example, In lower Key Stage 2, students may learn about Traditions within the theme of Who We Are. In order to enable students to understand the unit in greater depth and enrich their learning, conceptual lenses are applied to focus the inquiry further.


The seven key concepts are:


Students are then given opportunities to develop their own understandings through the Inquiry approach. This research-driven pedagogy moves the focus from teacher-led instruction and memorisation of factual knowledge content, to student-led discovery of skills and connections which enhance the learning and promote meaningful outcomes. 

The Landmark Learner Profile


At the heart of education at Landmark, our focus lies in developing independent, creative problem-solvers that make a positive contribution to the world. Through supporting students in developing the eleven attributes of the IB Landmark Learner Profile, we value the importance of students that are:



Both our academic programmes and our holistic provision ensure that students have opportunities to develop these attributes both within and outside the classroom. We understand that, in order for students to thrive and engage fully with their learning, they must feel secure, valued and happy. Through nurturing the personal, creative, social and emotional qualities within our small family-style community, each individual is supported to achieve their potential. 

International Mindedness


At Landmark, we are proud of our diverse community, representing a global student body from all over the world. International Mindedness is embedded within our philosophy and represented through our curriculum, which values the local, national and global communities to which we belong. Through a carefully constructed programme of inquiry, students are given opportunities to consider themes that allow them to explore the challenges and opportunities in a global context, learning to pose questions that deepen their understanding of the world around them.