The English Language Acquisition course at IST aims to develop you into a critical and competent communicator. You will learn to articulate ideas clearly and confidently in Standard English, justify your thoughts with reasons, ask questions to ensure understanding, and expand your vocabulary. The course also focuses on negotiation, evaluating and building on others’ ideas, and choosing the appropriate register for effective communication. Additionally, you will enhance your writing skills, learning to draft and write both formal academic essays and imaginative pieces for various purposes and audiences.

The MYP Individuals and Societies course combines humanities disciplines like history with social sciences such as geography. It encourages respect and understanding of the world, equipping you with skills to explore historical, contemporary, geographical, social, religious, and cultural factors affecting individuals, societies, and environments. Through engaging topics like continents, world religions, the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, modern and contemporary history, climates, weather, and ecosystems, you will develop your identity and become a responsible member of both local and global communities.

Throughout the Middle Years Programme you will study a wide variety of topics covering all 4 branches of Mathematics: (1) Numbers, (2) Algebra, (3) Geometry and trigonometry, and (4) Statistics and probability

You will develop the skills to identify and express number patterns, utilise calculation and estimation skills. You will learn about the important concept of Algebra for problem solving and understand how it uses symbols and letters to represent numbers, quantities and operations. You will study shapes and spaces in 2D and 3D and develop skills for measuring and manipulating objects using geometry and trigonometry. You will gain an understanding of data handling and learn how to collate, interpret and represent data in a meaningful way. In addition to this, you will also learn about probability and how to calculate ‘chance’.

You will develop fundamental movement skills such as locomotion, manipulation, and stability. You will also learn about healthy living, including growth and development, personal safety, and injury prevention. Active participation is another key area, encompassing physical activity, fitness, living skills, and safety. All these topics are integrated under the Personal, Social, and Physical Education framework. As you progress to the MYP, your education will continue with a focus on physical activity, active living, healthy living, and living skills, all covered through the MYP Physical and Health Education program.

You will learn how to write, read and communicate ideas based on personal engagement in different kinds of creative processes.

You will learn how to look for pictures in poems, to dramatize fairy tales, and how to communicate and express feelings, dreams and hope in a diary.

In Design, you will learn how to solve problems and challenges relating to both contrived and open contexts. You do this with the aim that by the end of your time in IST, you will have the skills to approach a problem and create either a physical, a system based and / or a digital based product to solve the problem.

During your time at BOINT you will study a range of topics covering areas from three science disciplines - Chemistry, Biology and Physics. A few examples of topics you will cover are `What are living organisms made of?’, ‘How can you change the speed of a chemical reaction?’ and ‘How do we see the world around us?’

These topics will allow you to build on your prior learning to develop your knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts, as well as developing your knowledge and understanding of new scientific ideas. You should also gain an awareness of the role of science in today’s society as we look at real life applications of scientific ideas. This will allow you to discover the link between science, ethics and the environment.

Our school aims to equip students with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to actively and responsibly engage in a changing world. The Personal Project is a culmination of their MYP learning, allowing students to pursue their passions and create meaningful work, such as writing music, building a minibike, or conducting a science experiment. The project consists of three parts: the Product, the Process Journal, and the Write-up, which details the project’s goals, its connection to the Global Context, and the steps taken to complete it. Students receive extensive support and guidance from a personal project supervisor throughout the process.