Years 7 to 9: the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP)

This globally delivered course gives our students a broad and varied experience at Key Stage 3, which provides an excellent base from which to progress with their GCSE studies. It also prepares our students to study the DP and the CP at our sixth form, Impington International College.

Years 10 and 11: exploring GCSEs in-depth

At the College, students are given careful guidance to choose their GCSE options in Year 9. We offer a wide range of subject choices, and have carefully mapped the MYP course through to GCSE content to allow students to be well-equipped for the demands of the qualifications, while not having been taught to test. This preparation also involves the students in the ‘IVC Core’, which sits at the heart of our curriculum, and ensures that students have access to the Arts, Sport, Languages and Humanities throughout their GCSE courses.

Years 12 and 13: the IB Diploma Programme (DP) and the Careers Programme (CP)

We offer two main pathways for Years 12 and 13 students at Impington International College: the DP and the CP. These two pathways are academically rigorous, encourage both personal and academic achievement and incorporate best practice from research and a global community of IB World Schools.
The programmes encourage students to think critically and become global citizens, and equips them with the skills and knowledge that they need for the next stages of their life journey.

How to we measure the impact of the curriculum at the College?

Across all key stages, progress data is very important in monitoring the knowledge and understanding of our students. Formative and summative assessments are used and students complete all assessed work in their bespoke assessment books across Years 7 to 13. We have very clear systems in place for tracking students’ progress, and intervening where they fall short of their aspirational targets.

Students track their own progress against the IB learner profile in their iCAS portfolios. These are monitored by tutors and form part of the progress conversations that happen in tutor time during academic mentoring sessions. They are also reviewed in approaches to learning lessons, where students are given the chance to reflect on how they are developing the attributes of the IB learner profile. Students also track their own academic progress both in lessons and in tutor time, where they keep a log of their progress and set targets for improvement.