International Curriculum

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 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. 

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 six taught languages as well as English as an additional language, these include French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Russian or Spanish. 

Learning languages is central to the school’s mission and one of the key pillars of the curriculum. Languages are offered at a variety of levels in the Sixth Form from beginner to Higher Level IB and A Level. 

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  part of a national Language Network, working with experts at NCLE and supporting 3 other local schools develop Chinese on their curriculum. 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. 

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 Sixth Form Student Language Ambassadors help organise and deliver this work.