MIDDLE SCHOOL

Students in the Middle school are group by a tutor and taught by specialist subject teachers for all subjects with move between rooms and teachers.
Each grade follows a 40-period week with subject time allocated as follows:
• 10 periods in Semester 1 of Humanity and Language English Semester 2 Humanity and Language Indonesia
• 5 periods of Language A or B
• 5 periods of Science
• 5 periods of Mathematics
• 4 periods of Islam
• 4 periods of Physical education
• 4 periods of Technology and home economy
• 3 periods of Arts

Five areas of interaction:
• approaches to learning
• community and service
• human ingenuity
• environments
• Health and social education.

Grade 6 contents:
• Learning to learn, diversity, growth, goals, pattern
• Exploration, consequences, discovery, geography
• Printing, communication, advertising, media
• Reproduction, growth, adaptation, norms health
• Technology, communication, systems, ethics
• Prejudice, persecution, conflict, diversity, justice

HUMANITIES
EDUCATION, SOCIAL, CULTURE and BELIEFS
• Location of other IB and IB Islamic school
• Similarities and differences among schools
• Development – problems an prospects
• Natural hazards
• Geography & history of Indonesia and world
• Social education service projects

NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
• Location and review of features of maps
• Ecosystems
• Different attitude and values and make different response to environmental issues
• Environmental problems can be solved in different ways

GLOBAL INEQUALITY
• Major differences between more economically and developed countries
• Measuring development
• Issues and situations facing developing countries and peoples
• Working towards a sustainability

PREJUDICE and PERSECUTION
• There are different cause of prejudice and different forms of prejudice and discrimination against individual and groups
• There are different causes and effect of persecution
• Different methods can be used to reduce or resolve prejudice, discrimination and persecution

GEOGRAPHY
Grade 7 course content:
• History, Investigating our world and Indonesia in world war II
• A century of influence
• Tourism
• Antarctica
Grade 8 course content:
• Trips
• Development
• Material world
• People and the environment
• Government or governance
• Natural hazards

LANGUAGE BAHASA INDONESIA

Grade 6 course content
• Prose, Poetry, Drama
• Non-fiction & media text
• Language Skills: Reading; Writing; Speaking; Listening
Grade 7 course content
• Creative and Biographical writing
• Research assignment
• Theme and character essay
• Argumentative essay and debating
• An Introduction to popular literature
Grade 8 course content
• Biographical and travel writing
• Research assignment
• Theme-based literary essay
• Media- film as text
• Popular literature comedy

ENGLISH
The literature lessons challenge the students’ reading skills to develop their awareness of literature, stretch the students’ range of vocabulary and introduce students to character analysis. The language lessons focus on more basic grammar structures, revision and consolidation of the fundamentals of English grammar, vocabulary building and offer a rich source of reading texts.

MATHEMATICS
Number and operations
Algebra
Shape and space
Data analysis and probability

Mathematical processes Grade 6 to 8 is continuum, meaning that students build upon their previous knowledge and skills and develop according mathematic scope and sequences

SCIENCE
Grade 6 course content
• Cells and classification
• Solid, liquid and gases
• Acid and alkalis
• Reproduction and variations
• Solutions
• Energy resources
• Simple chemical reaction
Grade 7 content
• Food and digestion
• Rocks and weathering
• The rock cycle
• Heating and cooling
• Atoms and elements
• Sound
• Respiration
• Compound and mixtures
• Microbes and disease
• Ecology

TEHCNOLOGY
Woven through the curriculum and students are encourage to use it where appropriate

THE ARTS
visual art, drama, music, leadership, and graphics.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Physical and cardiovascular fitness, creative expression, motor and social skills, flexibility, and general health

ISLAMIC STUDY
Al Qur’an reading, akhlaq (manners), tawheed, aqeedah, fiqh (Essentials and practices), history and also integrated with others subjects such as Science, Mathematics, Arts and Humanities