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An award-winning Montessori Curriculum perfectly designed for young learners which aims at laying a strong foundation in their early schooling days to increase knowledge area, skills.

Internationally Recognized Montessori Curriculum - GMP

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IB PYP Programme at Leading International School in Tokyo

As an acclaimed IB PYP Primary school in Tokyo since April 2019, GIIS provides excellent facilities and high-standard programmes that are conducted by expert faculty. Our students are encouraged to take ownership of their education and develop exceptional knowledge and skills across and beyond the subject areas to face the challenges of the real world. IB PYP curriculum promises high-quality learning and teaching methodologies that successfully boosts their learning journey. The IB PYP curriculum is available at our Higashi Kasai Campus in Tokyo

PYP curriculum cover six subjects: language, social studies, mathematics, arts, science, and personal/social/physical education. Students also engage with specialists to explore language and culture, art, music, and physical education through both work and play.

Why choose IB PYP for Primary School Education?

The IB PYP programme is an excellent curriculum that provides inquiry-based, transdisciplinary learning that enhances the knowledge, conceptual understanding, skills and character traits of students. GIIS, a recognized PYP international school enables students to be an active participant in developing their skills other than just academics. We ensure that the curriculum offered is engaging, relevant and challenging thereby developing the critical thinking and self-confidence of students.

The IB PYP Curriculum

The IB PYP pedagogy recognises the inherent potential of learners and makes them emissary of their own learning process. Students are given opportunities to create their own contexts based on their prior learning and experiences and the current learning requirements. This kind of transdisciplinary learning helps students to boost their confidence, develop their knowledge, and enhance their communication and collaboration skills.

Learner Profile

GIIS fosters international standards in learning that helps the young learners to grow socially, emotionally and intellectually. The IB Primary Years programme uses an inquiry based learning approach, this programme encourages students to question, inquire and theorize reinforcing their knowledge and skills across, between and beyond the subject areas.

By taking the ownership of their learning, our PYP students respond to new challenges and opportunities with agility and imagination. Our young learners at the end of the year 5 demonstrate their success and achievements through exhibitions and share their learnings and experiences with the wider audience.

Teaching And Learning

Our IB PYP Primary education program is a transformative teaching and learning experience providing a learning environment to students that is credible and transdisciplinary. Our learners take responsibility and ownership of their learning and enhance their knowledge, skills, understanding, and collaboration making an impact in their lives, their communities and beyond.

The well-structured and proficient transdisciplinary learning system with relevant subject areas make students reflect on the significance of their learning and meaningfulness of their actions. This remarkable learning approach helps them to emerge as efficient and energetic learners and possess the required attributes to engage in lifelong learning.

‍ Our IB PYP program students are guided by expert teachers who effectively help in moulding the knowledge and skills of students in a happy and enthusiastic environment. Through organized and regular assignments and projects, students learn the spirit of collaborating with fellow students and respond to the changes of the rapidly evolving world.

The Learning Community

The powerful commitment of uniting a community of learners on one platform makes GIIS the best IB Primary school. Our high quality learning approach develops the critical and creative thinking capabilities of students. We recognize the students, their families, school staff, adults involved in learners’ lives as an integral part of the learning community. The PYP education enhances the skills and knowledge of students, builds their learning profile and makes them internationally minded individuals

English Language Support (ELS)

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Program Context

“It takes multiple years for English learners to gain a high enough level of language proficiency to perform on par with their native English‐speaking peers. English learners cannot wait until they are fluent in English to learn grade‐level content. Instead, they must continue to develop their math and reading skills as well as their knowledge of social studies and science, even while learning English.”
Source : educationnorthwest

At GIIS Tokyo campuses English proficiency is of the utmost importance. We recognize our students’ efforts and want to make sure they have the support necessary to become fluent global communicators. With that purpose in mind, in the year 2020 we introduced an English Language Support (ELS) programme at GIIS Tokyo.

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Program Overview

The mission of our ELS programme is clear, to assist our non-native English speakers as well as those students who may require additional support in order to help them acquire the desired level of English language proficiency.

The ELS programme is an value-added service, i.e. free of cost and available in our Higashi Kasai Campus for Grade 6-8 CLSP students.

GIIS has several different curricula (CBSE, CLSP, IGCSE IBPYP and the IBDP) in its campuses across Tokyo and each of these curricula have  specific frameworks and pedagogical approaches, the ELS model has been tailored to suit each of those curricula.

What you need to know about second  language learning :
1. Children can take up to ten years to become fluent in a second language
2. Children learn second languages like they learn their first -speaking and listening followed by reading and writing
3. While children are diverse and learn in many different ways, there are recognisable steps towards fluency that can be roughly divided into five stages. 
4.Children may work in more than one stage depending on the context, and learning is not necessarily a steady acquisition, but rather a dynamic process of ever-changing needs.
5. The role of translanguaging (using the mother tongue to better understand the second language) is vitally important.
6. Children must be supported in the continued growth of their first language in order to better understand their second.

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Programme Structure

GIIS employs a hybrid push-in/consultant model for PYP ELS.

In this model fifty percent of the PYP teacher’s time  is utilised towards ELS in the classroom. This is a preset time that’s evaluated every three months in conjunction with the ELS teacher, the homeroom teachers and the PYP Deputy Head.

The second fifty percent is spent as  consultant style, where the ELS teacher will work with students and classes in a variety of ways via:

1. Scheduled short periods of intensive vocabulary building/targeted needs of individuals and small groups
2. A biddable schedule where teachers can sign up in advance for further sessions with the ELS teacher
3. Scheduled meeting slots with teachers for planning and preparation purposes
4. Assessments, data collection and data analysis using our robust proprietary data analytics systems.

This second fifty percent will be dynamic, responsive to shifts in need and focus, and respectful of children’s socio-emotional welfare.

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Identification of Students

Children are identified as in need of ESL support in a number of ways:

1. Identified during admissions
2. Identified by parents
3. Identified during classes

Identification will include the type of ELS support they will likely need and will be part of an ongoing conversation with homeroom teacher, ELS support teacher and families.

Children will be in the programme for differing lengths of time appropriate to their needs. They can also be identified at any time during the school year. Needs can vary and can include beginning,functional, inferential and metaphorical levels of understanding. A tracking system is used by the homeroom and ESL teacher that identifies  levels of ability. The belief is that  the child will benefit best from being with their peers.

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Benefits and Outcome

The inclusion of native english speaking students in traditional classroom settings has many benefits for both native English speaking and other lingual background students, as all students benefit from the inclusion of explicit instruction in the development of academic language.

The ELS’ teacher’s planner system reflects the progress of each student indicating different levers of where the student is currently at and Individualised Learning Plans are identified accordingly alongside PYP homeroom teachers.

The Cambridge ELS system is used for a list of expected outcomes in the growth towards fluency and to maintain consistency across the school. Though we use the Cambridge ELS System it does not form our main ELS framework and content as the Cambridge syllabus is not directly relevant  for PYP.

Every Child has a unique learning path. Check if IB Primary Years Program is the right fit for your child.

Subjects Offered for IB PYP Curriculum

  • English
  • Mathematics
  • 2nd language A choice between Japanese or French
  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • Art and Physical, Social cum Personal Education

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Extra-curricular and Co-curricular Activities

The holistic approach towards education and the phenomenal facilities makes GIIS the ultimate choice when it comes to international schools in Japan. We strive towards excellence of students in both academics and non-academic activities. We provide outstanding opportunities in moulding the inherent talent each student possesses and make it mandatory for students to participate in any of the outstanding ECA or CCA activities. Our wide range of remarkable activities include indoor and outdoor sports, skill based education, clubs, jockeying, videography and more, which develop the social, physical and teamspirit abilities of the students.

Tennis

Soccer

Badminton

Table tennis

Karate

Board Game (Chess and Carrom Board)

Volleyball

Bollywood Dance

Bharatanatyam

Igo

Craft club

Spelling and speeches

Kathak Dance form

Tabla

Carnatic vocal

Spanish club

Science Club

Math Club

Needle Art

Drawing and Painting

Smart Learning & Virtual School

Technology being at the top of our infrastructure and education system, GIIS offers the superlative NextGen facilities at the campus like digital classrooms, collaborative spaces that facilitates students’ active participation and collaboration. The varied learning capabilities add brilliance to the PYP international school with Smart learning that equip students with innovative tools and technologies. The well-designed virtual school encourages students to hone their digital skills and be prepared for the future of online learning platforms.

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International Baccalaureate or IB provides a unique, challenging and diverse education. The major benefits of IB curriculum are:

● Motivates students to think critically and solve complex problems
● Students can drive their own learning
● The curriculum helps students to get into top universities for higher education
● Develop strong academic, social and emotional characteristics
● Ability to communicate with people in an increasingly globalized and fast changing world. 

Primary Years Programme or PYP, an international curriculum for children in the age group of 3-12 years nurtures and develops young students as caring, active participants in a lifelong journey of learning. The PYP offers an inquiry-based, transdisciplinary curriculum framework that builds conceptual understanding. This programme consists of 8 key concepts that include:

● Form-Everything has a form and recognizable features that needs to be identified, observed, described and categorized
● Function-Everything has a purpose or a role
● Causation-Every action has certain consequences
● Change – Change is inevitable
● Connection – The actions of individual effects others
● Perspective-Different perspectives lead to different interpretations
● Responsibility-People make choices based on their understanding and actions are taken accordingly that makes a difference
● Reflection-It is important to reflect on our conclusions, to consider our methods of reasoning, and the quality and the reliability of the evidence we have considered.

The 5 essential elements of IB PYP curriculum are:

1. 12 attributes that students need to value and portray
2. Knowledge consisting of 6 interdisciplinary themes students will investigate throughout the year
3. 8 key concepts that drive instructions through inquiry, questions, and investigation
4. 5 transdisciplinary skills students develop as they involve themselves in the learning environment.  
5. Students need to take actions that will help their peers, school staff, and the wider community.

IB has two different programmes that include:

●IB PYP or Primary Years Programme caters to students from kindergarten to Fifth grade from age 5-12 years.
● IB MYP or Middle Years Programme for secondary students in the age group of 11-16 years.  
● IBDP  or Diploma Programme for high school students in the age group of 16-18 years

The IB PYP curriculum caters to students from grades 1 to 5th who are in the age group of 5 to 12 years.  

GIIS offering the best PYP education programme provides three different kind of learning approaches that include:

● Student-centred approach
● Transdisciplinary approach
● Collaborative learning. 

The subjects offered in the IB PYP curriculum are:

● English
● Mathematics
● Science
● Social Studies
● Second Language-Japanese/French
● Art and Physical, Social cum Personal Education. 

GIIS being a well-known PYP international school offers scholarships for all the curricula. The scholarships available for the IB PYP are:

● 9GEMS Holistic Development Scholarship
● Hideki Yukawa Global Skills Scholarship
● Sadako Ogata Merit cum Means Scholarship.

Transdisciplinary learning is implemented by the IB World Schools, and PYP ensures that the learning is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant across all the subjects and beyond that helps students connect with the real world challenges.

At GIIS you can talk to our counselors online or in person. To talk to our experts you need to take a prior appointment by filling in the details here. Our executives will get in touch with you to check on your and the counselor’s availability.

The exclusive campus tours offered by GIIS can be booked through our website. You can either visit the campus personally or take a virtual tour from your comfort zones. You can book the slots as per the mentioned timings and date. For any changes you can talk to our executives. 

We have professional admission counsellors who will guide you on the curricula and their benefits for your child.  You need to book a meeting prior to talking with our counselors.

Assessment is a part of our admission process. During the campus visit you need to attend the counselling session and then the assessment which is conducted by our expert admission counselors.

If you are not able to download or access the application form fill in your query and details in the enquiry form or mail us at admissions.tokyo@globalindianschool.org.

In the popular Tokyo city, GIIS has three excellent campuses that include:

1. Nishi Kasai Campus
2. Higashi Kasai Campus
3. Seishincho Campus. 

Yes, an induction fees is payable as one-time and is non-refundable. The amount to be paid is provided here.

At GIIS, we offer sibling discounts. If your 1st child is studying in our school and you want to enrol:

● 2nd child-Then sibling discount will be 25%
● 3rd child-Then sibling discount will be 50%. 

To cancel the bus services, a one month prior notice has to be submitted. If the notice is not furnished, a payment in lieu of notice is payable.  

GIIS offers scholarships for existing as well as international students. Scholarships can be availed by students from kindergarten to grade 12. The scholarships in GIIS are given based on the academic performance, sports excellence, skills possessed, merit-cum-means based. Through scholarships we encourage students to pursue the passion and hone their personality. 

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