International Curriculum
THE INTERNATIONAL ETHOS
Children join us from all over the world to develop an international community in the local village of Ingatestone, Essex where we are affectionately known as ‘the Anglo Family’.
Internationality runs through everything that we do. The International Baccalaureate shapes both our curriculum offer and our philosophy with regards to the skills and abilities that we want our students to develop during their time at the school. Each subject within the school embeds the use of multicultural and multilingual examples to fully embed this ethos as an element that is more than just in the name of our school.
The range of languages we offer, both European and further afield, differentiates us from other schools and helps our students to foster a real understanding of other cultures, and also empowers them to communicate with peers in other countries as part of our visits programme.
Exchanges & Visits
This progressive programme introduces international visits from Year 7 to equip students to take a full part in our exchanges that range from 8 days to 8 weeks, culminating in international work experience for our Lower Sixth students. This is further bolstered by our international fringe week and cross curricular international residentials that enrich our students understanding of the world. All of these aspects combine within our citizenship curriculum that aims to build on British and International values and equips our students to be truly global citizens.
INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION IN THE CURRICULUM
Every subject is committed to enhancing the international dimension within their curriculum area. Curriculum maps show where international learning takes place within the scheme of learning. Teachers will also take every opportunity to develop and enhance students’ understanding of each other’s cultures, traditions and heritage through wider discussion and debate related to the lesson in focus. The curriculum taught in school is further enhanced by learning through the International Visits Programme.
WHICH LANGUAGES DO WE TEACH?
The Anglo offers 7 taught languages as well as English as an additional language, these include French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian or Spanish.
Learning languages is central to the school’s mission and one of the key pillars of the curriculum. Students are required to study two languages up to the age of 16 and at least one in the Sixth Form.
Students can study either Chinese as part of the Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) or two-phase 1 languages (French, German or Spanish) from Year 7. Some students opt to swap a phase 1 language for a phase 2 language (Italian, Japanese or Russian) in Year 8. Special provision can be made for native speakers of French, German and Spanish.
To find out more click here to view our Languages.
MANDARIN EXCELLENCE PROGRAMME
The Anglo European School is a centre of excellence for the teaching of Mandarin Chinese and we are one of the first cohort of schools to lead on the Mandarin Excellence Programme, in partnership with the DFE, UCL IOE and The British Council. We are a Hub School, supporting 3 other local schools develop Chinese on their curriculum and our Headteacher, Jody Gee is the Chair of the Headteacher’s Strategic Development Group at UCL. We are also part of a global network of Confucius Classrooms and, in partnership with Essex County Council and Jiangsu Province in China, we host a Jiangsu Resource Centre which supports the teaching of Mandarin in other schools as well as our own.
OTHER PAGES OF INTEREST
LANGUAGES OUTREACH
The school supports primary schools and secondary school colleagues and we also train languages teachers. This can involve delivering enrichment days, teacher training to develop the primary international curriculum, language teaching and hosting teachers for CPD and students for Challenge Days. Our Student Language Ambassadors help organise and deliver this work.