Collège Middle School
CURRICULUM
Mr Graeme Arthur, Head of English
The English Department
The English Department at The Anglophone Section is dedicated to the intellectual curiosity, analytical dexterity, and creative thinking of our students; we foster reading, writing, and oral skills through a broad selection of relevant, challenging and engaging texts. Our teachers are all native speakers of the English language, qualified in Anglophone countries and replete with a wealth of experience that enables us to encourage our pupils to reach beyond themselves to attain the very utmost possible to each.
Our belief is that by using a range of inspiring texts to stimulate our classes, we can not only develop sophisticated reading skills, but also build the English writing skills of grammar, punctuation, spelling and composition through them. Our approach to learning is discussion based, encouraging our pupils to articulate their views in each and every lesson. We actively encourage independent learning, provide analytical frameworks for essay writing and model how to be precise, succinct and articulate in oral exams.
At the Anglophone Section we know that learning English is the main reason that your children are with us. We want to make that learning experience enjoyable and rewarding for the pupils, engaging them with the language through texts as varied as some of the great works of English literature to contemporary news stories in a range of media forms. Our belief is that we can use a range of inspiring texts to stimulate our classes, we can not only develop sophisticated reading skills, but also use our expertise to build the English writing skills of grammar, punctuation, spelling and composition through them.
The English Department at The Anglophone Section is dedicated to the intellectual curiosity, analytical dexterity, and creative thinking of our students; we foster reading, writing, and oral skills through a broad selection of relevant, challenging and engaging texts. We are all native speakers of the English language, qualified in Anglophone countries and replete with a wealth of experience that enables us to encourage our pupils to reach beyond themselves to attain the very utmost possible to each. We believe in the importance of literature and use it in the way it is meant to be used – to inspire.
From Shakespeare to Salinger and Angelou to Atwood, you’ll find your child arriving at table with new and interesting friends to talk about. Our experience with, and love of, great books helps us to know how to guide our students in their appreciation of some of the classic poetry, plays and prose works written in the English language. Our approach to learning is discussion based, encouraging our pupils to articulate their views in each and every lesson. This approach allows them to enjoy their involvement whilst being encouraged to develop their own thinking, which in turn positively influences their writing in both creative and analytical forms.
Throughout the Collège and Lycée years our curriculum are integrated to create progress towards the final outcomes that will ensure our students can adapt to university life. We actively encourage independent learning, provide analytical frameworks for essay writing and model how to be precise, succinct and articulate in oral exams. As all of our teachers have experience of examining, we are well placed to give pupils the best advice for how to achieve in these highly pressurised situations.
And yet exams are only a part of what we aim for. Important, of course, but not everything. More than anything we want the young people we teach to finish their time with us having enjoyed themselves, having learned something that they will take with them wherever they go, having become somehow finer than they would have become without meeting us. Above all, through the guidance we provide, we want them to realise that they belong in the world.
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
More than anything we want the young people we teach to finish their time with us having enjoyed themselves.
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Mr Will Rennie, Head of History-Geography
The History-Geography Department
The History department at the Anglophone Section are passionate about their subject, highly motivated, and keen to engage students and support them to reach their full potential.
The study of History involves so much more than just looking at events from the past; it lets us understand why changes took place and why these changes matter to us today. History is the story of how people have lived and thought at various times throughout the past. It involves the study of both ordinary and extraordinary people who lived in exciting times.
In studying History, students learn how to collect and analyse evidence. They learn how to think critically, identifying bias and evaluating arguments. History also teaches Anglophone students how to communicate clearly in English, formulating their own arguments, presenting them persuasively in both written and oral assignments, and supporting them with evidence. We also aim to complement the French programme of histoire-géo in Collège and Lycée and lay the basis for future study at iGCSE, BFI and beyond.
We believe that History is interesting in its own right but is also useful as it teaches students valuable skills.