CURICULUM
Kindergarten Programme
Curriculum Design for Kindergarten :
The Kindergarten curriculum is based on age-specific learning goals and designed with a view to modern educational trends and the needs of the children. We adopt a thematic approach to foster learning across the curriculum, emphasising the development of key skills. We plan across different areas of learning, facilitating the children’s development at their own pace through differentiated and collaborative learning. The curriculum is child-oriented, focusing on play and individual personality. We firmly believe that children need to be happy to learn. Our modern curriculum provides opportunities for play, exploration, active learning, and creative thinking. We carefully plan and support enriched programs that stimulate children’s interest. We expose the children to a variety of exciting and positive experiences and hands-on activities that enable them to explore and enliven their interests. We encourage them to think and talk about these experiences. The integration of all areas of learning offers ample opportunities for children to make connections between their experiences. While keeping international standards in mind, the curriculum for our little learners is based on early learning goals that they need to achieve by the end of Kindergarten. We have successfully adapted this assessment pattern to provide the necessary range and balance.
Reception :
A quality education Reception under the Englisgh system, as the gateway to school life, is treated most seriously at Oxford English School. Students are prepared for the important journey of a school education, and learn early reading, writing and counting skills.
Early Years Learning :
It’s never too early to begin!
Age - Appropriate learning in Oxford English School's Kindergarten and Reception classes:
Physical play – motor skills are developed through the use of climbing frames, slides, swings, push-along toys, etc.
Constructive play – with building toys, matching games and sequencing activities.
Creative play – art & craft, design & technology, sensory and manipulative play, using paints, crayons, chalk, collage and sticking.
Imaginative play – role play, mimicry and facilities for your child to create their own fantasy world.
Musical play – singing, dancing, playing musical instruments, movement with music, and listening to and enjoying music from around the world.
Language development – stories, rhymes, letter recognition, conversation, listening, phonics and whole word recognition, etc
Social development – sharing, turn-taking, discipline, social graces, washing hands and brushing teeth. Mathematics – shapes, space awareness, counting, weighing, comparing and sequencing
Primary Curriculum:
Curriculum
Design for Primary and secondary school :
The Oxford curriculum is designed to cater to all kind of pupils keeping in mind the needs of each individual is different. There following components of Curriculum.
Languages The language curriculum aims to develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in a variety of contexts and train students to be able to adapt language to suit different tasks, audiences and purposes. It aims to develop confidence in the students so that they can use their skills and abilities effectively. It helps to develop students’ critical abilities – to analyze and critically evaluate diverse texts and to equip learners with the language to question ideas and articulate their point of view.
English: Students will study English and main language through the school life at OES.
Hindi : OES provides option for Hindi from Grade 1 to Grade 10.
Mathematics and Technology: All students study Mathematics till class X. The Math Curriculum helps students develop strategies that improve their logical thinking and analytical ability. It helps to develop the ability to approximate and estimate, to use trial and improvement techniques, look for patterns and make hypothesis. It helps in development of computational skills and spatial intelligences. The Mathematics Lab activities will be an integral and a compulsory part of the Mathematics curriculum.
Science: Science is compulsory subject for all students till Grade 10. From classes I to V it is treated as EVS. In classes IV to X, it is studied as Science.
The Science curriculum offers students the opportunity to be curious, to question, to investigate, to formulate hypothesis, design and carry out experiments, make critical observations and record results.
Art and Craft: The Art and Craft program is aimed at promoting cognitive aesthetic and emotional growth. Students realize the joy of expression through various media. They learn to appreciate art from different cultures as well as the native arts of the country against the backdrop of the cultural context in which they exist.
Information and Communication Technology:
Information and Communication Technology is a compulsory component of the curriculum which will help students assess the impact of new technologies on society and train them to use these productively. The focus of the program is to help the students to understand the use of common software applications and use technology to enhance their ability to access, evaluate and research information.
Inclusive Curriculum:
The OXFORD community believes that all students must have access to learning with equal opportunity irrespective of their class, gender, race, ability, disability, language and culture and social or economic conditions. The decisions taken in the classroom should include the perspectives, knowledge and culture and value language experiences which students bring to the classroom. The school curriculum advocates and celebrates diversity in terms of culture and other differences. It should include all learners to realize the full potential that he/she is capable of. OES includes creative strategies to encourage and promote inclusive learning environment. The diversity among the students is addressed through appropriate mechanisms to facilitate need based teaching & learning methods. This includes Gifted and talented students along with students with learning disabilities.
Decisive Years
Senior Secondary School (Grades 11-12)
Transition to a Higher Level of Education Though these are more intensive years, formative and impressionable, leading to the All India Senior School Certificate Examinations, OXFORD ENGLISH SCHOOL leaves no stone unturned in guiding, sometimes confused, teenagers to the right career. Numerous seminars and workshops help the students to choose the right path.
English
Designed to help students acquire competence in English so that they can use the language: as a means for self-expression in real life situations and as a resource for studying vocational courses in many different fields such as medicine and engineering.
Objectives: To acquire reading and writing skills including summarizing, abstracting, note making; the art of learning to learn, that is, the ability to cope with English for further education; an active vocabulary of 2,500 common words, and a passive vocabulary of another 1,500 words; interest in listening to English speech and in reading varied materials in English.
Mathematics
Objectives: Creative work in mathematics; to create confidence in equipping themselves with the skills needed for the branches of science (physical or social) or humanities in which they have an aptitude for higher studies.
Strategy: Focussing attention on ‘problem solving’ in the liberal sense. Nurturing the higher order mental processes of logical reasoning with stress on rigour and precision, development of concepts, language etc. Introducing non-traditional techniques inclusive of audio-visual aids, viz. films, video-films, computer-aided instruction etc. to supplement classroom teaching.
Physics
Objectives: To develop competence to pursue science based professional courses like engineering and medicine Gain knowledge, understanding and application abilities about different aspects of Physics. Strengthen foundation for further study of Physics. Develop an interest in study of Physics as a discipline. Acquire necessary manipulative and experimental skills.
Chemistry
Objectives: To strengthen the concepts developed at the secondary level and develop new concepts to provide a sound background for higher studies in chemistry. Develop competence in students to pursue science based professional courses like engineering and medicine in future career. To provide relevant content materials useful for vocational courses. To develop manipulative and experimental skills in students necessary for investigation of the materials in their environment.
Biology
Objectives: To explain basic concepts of Biology. To enlighten an individual about his place in universe. Increase the awareness of problems of the environment and identify measures to overcome them, To understand Biology for rational living – removal of biases (sex, race, etc.) and correctiveness to superstition. To create awareness in which new knowledge is emerging to provide the innate excitement of the subject. To acquaint the student with fundamentals of human Biology, nutrition, health and population control.
Engineering Drawing
Objectives: To develop competence amongst the students to pursue technical courses like Engineering, Architecture, Draftsmanship, Surveyor and other professional courses where geometrical and mechanical drawings are an integral part of the teaching-learning process. To acquire necessary skill of making and understanding technical drawing. Gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of plane & solid geometry and machine drawing so as to apply these in relevant practical fields such as in technology and industry.
Economics
Objectives: To help understand the existing economic institutions in India in their historical perspective. To understand the structure of Indian economy and the changes it is undergoing.To acquaint with principles, laws and concepts of economics. To understand the concept of national income and methods used in calculating national income. To appreciate efforts for economic reconstruction.
Business Studies
Objectives: To develop in the student an interest in the theory and practice in business, trade and industry. To acquaint students with the theoretical foundations and practice of organizing, managing and handling routine operations of a business firm.To inculcate attitudes and values leading to the integration of business with the social system with a positive approach.
Accountancy
Objectives: To impart knowledge of method considered useful in maintaining records of proprietary and partnership firms, companies and non-trading organization. To generate and promote awareness of students in modern techniques of maintaining accounting records with the help of computers.
Home Science
Objectives: To acquaint students with the basics of human development which are necessary for understanding self and children. To realize that resources are scarce and need proper and efficient management. To enable them to become alert consumers and inculcate in them healthy habits of food through a knowledge of nutrition. Good knowledge of textiles for right selection and proper care of clothes.
History
Objectives: Provide authentic historical knowledge and understanding of those regions and periods which the pupil has chosen to study. Develop an attitude of studying the past objectively and a spirit of enquiry, so that the pupils personality is free from irrational prejudices and from bigotry, parochialism and communalism and is imbued with a scientific and forward-looking outlook.
Sociology
Objectives: To enable students to look at social reality objectively. To inculcate scientific temper and ability to perceive social reality. Familiarize with basic concepts in sociology and its relevance to Indian social reality. To make familiar with the processes of change and development.
Psychology
Objectives: To stimulate the curiosity and interest of pupils in the subject. To teach the pupils basic concepts and principles of Psychology. To enable the pupils to apply basic knowledge of concepts and principles of Psychology to their day-to-day life with a view to achieving and enhancing mental health and adjustment.
Informatics Practices
Objectives: To stimulate the curiosity and interest of pupils in the subject. To teach the pupils basic concepts and principles of Psychology. To enable the pupils to apply basic knowledge of concepts and principles of Psychology to their day-to-day life with a view to achieving and enhancing mental health and adjustment.
