It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the British International School Gdańsk (BISG). I trust that this website gives you an insight into what we offer the international and local community in Gdańsk and the surrounding area. We opened our school in September 2007. Since then we have already included teachers, parents and students from the U.S.A., Holland, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Romania, Germany, Italy, Columbia, Denmark, Australia, England, India, Japan and of course, Poland. For prospective parents, pupils or teachers, please contact us, or visit us and we would be delighted to show you our dynamic and developing school.
Kevin D'Arcy School Director
Nursery & Reception
The Foundation Stage focuses on the distinct needs of children aged three to five (end of the Reception Year). In Nursery and Reception children work towards Early Learning Goals in six areas of learning through topic based activities. The curriculum recognizes the fact that children develop in different ways and at different rates and it sets out the goals that most children are expected to achieve by the end of the Reception Year. The curriculum is delivered through planned play activities in Nursery and more structured learning introduced gradually in Reception where children are learning through more formal activities during the Literacy Hour and the Numeracy Hour. By the end of the Reception Year children should have a wide range of social skills. In literacy they should know the alphabet, link the letters and sounds, and read a range of common words. In numeracy they should count reliably up to 20, recognize numbers and add and subtract up to 10. Creative development and building an image of self as confident and competent learner is emphasized throughout the curriculum.
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Successful personal, social and emotional development is critical for very young children in all aspects of their lives and gives them the best opportunity for success in all other areas of learning. It is crucial that settings provide the experiences and support to enable children to develop a positive sense of themselves.
- Communication, language and literacy
- Communication, language and literacy depend on learning and being competent in a number of key skills, together with having the confidence, opportunity, encouragement, support and disposition to use them. This area of learning includes communication, speaking and listening in different situations and for different purposes, being read a wide range of books and reading simple texts and writing for a variety of purposes.
- Mathematics
- With opportunities for all children to develop their understanding of number, measurement, pattern, shape and space by providing a broad range of contexts in which they can explore, enjoy, learn, practise and talk about them.
- Knowledge and understanding of the world
- With opportunities for all children to solve problems, make decisions, experiment, predict, plan and question in a variety of contexts, and to explore and find out about their environment and people and places that have significance in their lives.
- Physical development
- With opportunities for all children to develop and practise their fine and gross motor skills and to increase their understanding of how their bodies work and what they need to do to be healthy and safe
- Creative development
- With opportunities for all children to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of art, design and technology, music, movement, dance and imaginative and role play activities.
