The IPC Goals


The Subject Goals

The IPC contains subject learning goals for every subject of the primary curriculum and uniquely for the development of international understanding.  However, the British School of Chicago chooses to follow the Literacy Hour, the Numeracy Strategy and QCA Science, in order to provide a full and varied curriculum, and to ensure that the children are prepared to take the British based SATs examinations at the end of Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. 

 The subject goals include:

  • The knowledge - the facts and information children might learn.
  • The skills - those practical abilities children need to be able to do.
  • The understandings - the deeper awareness of key concepts which develops over time.

The Learning Goals

The learning goals are the foundation on which the IPC is built.  Learning goals define what children might be expected to know, what they might be able to do and the understanding they might develop as they move through school.

 The Personal Goals

The personal goals refer to those individual qualities of inquisitiveness, resilience, honesty and respect that are developed throughout the whole curriculum and in all other aspects of school life.

The International Goals

The IPC is unique in defining learning goals that help young children begin the move towards an increasingly sophisticated national and international perspective.

 The children will develop:

  • A knowledge and understanding of one’s own national culture.
  • An awareness and understanding of the independence of and interdependence between peoples and countries.
  • An awareness and understanding of the essential similarities between the peoples and countries of the world.

  To find out more about the IPC please see the individual subject areas.