The Middle Stage will comprise three years of education, building on the pedagogical and
curricular style of the Preparatory Stage, more abstract concepts will be introduced in each
subject that students will be ready for at this stage across the sciences, mathematics, arts,
social sciences, and humanities. Experiential learning within each subject, and explorations of
relations among different subjects, will be encouraged and emphasized despite the
introduction of more specialized subjects and subject teachers.
Middle years are the very core of any school – the formative years that leave an ever-lasting
impression on the child’s mind. The middle years are also the critical period when the child
might develop an enduring and joyful relationship with learning or come to view it as a
detestable chore. The challenge for educators is to create the right contexts and experiences
for learning that resonate in the student's mind.
Learning how to learn is a crucial aspect of the middle years. The teaching-learning
experience is a balanced amalgamation of hands-on project work and analyses of
experiences to construct concepts, knowledge and skill sets modeled around interdisciplinary
learning expeditions based in the real life contexts. This provides the child with a real-life
connection that is important for experiential learning. These integrated Learning Expeditions
foster holistic growth and development of children, using real and personal experiences as a
pedagogic medium of teaching, learning and growth and building a culture of excellence and
craftsmanship. Most projects are inter-disciplinary and provide a context, problem or
purpose that children can relate to.
Projects help children to observe, reflect, analyze, synthesize and understand from multiple
perspectives. They empower the child to think about problems, whether social, cultural,
technological or ecological, in a systemic manner and become an agent of societal change. It
is a wholesome integrated approach that goes beyond the boundaries of curriculum and
provides multiple opportunities for the children to revisit and rework thus creating an ethic
of excellence through continuous planning, execution and reflection.
By the time children reach the end of the Middle Programme, they have accumulated skills
and knowledge that will stand them in good stead not just in the senior years but in life.