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ELEMENTARY – Grade 1-5

In the Elementary Years, the curriculum will maintain its interdisciplinary nature focusing on both
developmental and academic goals. Elementary school subjects taught are the following, which are
vertically aligned to the Early Years developmental domains.

Arabic (from Grade 1) t

* Islamic Education is for Muslim students only

* Arts will be broken into Visual Arts, Dance, Drama and Music
* MoE Social Studies will be integrated into Social Studies.

Subject offerings are broad and balanced holistically building the students’ knowledge, understanding, skills
and attitudes as well as providing them the opportunity to explore and discover their interests. Each discrete
subject will have its own scope and sequence broken into different units geared towards meeting subject
standards. These standards are appropriately spiraled and scaffolded to provide for the progression of
learning where knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes advance and deepen over time. (We do
acknowledge that learning is a developmental process and that the phases a learner passes through are not
always linear or age related).
Through the Study, the teachers will be able to meet learning goals using a relevant, rich and engaging topic
bringing subject standards to life in meaningful ways that are tied to real world experiences. The Study will
be coordinated and systematic, focusing on essential questions while addressing the diverse subject
standards as well as Learner Profile.

Each Interdisciplinary Study will have its essential questions. However, the Study itself will have an emergent
aspect that allows for the pursuit of students’ interests and their own questions. It also provides students an
opportunity to take responsibility for their own learning. This not only makes the learning fun and engaging
but allows for unplanned problems and questions which require students to apply increasing higher order and
critical thinking skills. This also means that the way a Study evolves or the very Study itself may change from
year to year to reflect the interests of the current cohort.

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