Curriculum for Al Jabr Islamic Primary School

The curriculum for Al Jabr Islamic Primary School is designed under combination of the National Curriculum (KBK) and International Curriculum with Islamic Religion’s Curriculum adjusted to the needs of achieving the mission and goals of Al Jabr Islamic School.

Learning activities in Al Jabr Islamic School are emphasized on the phased learning process, and not on the materials feeding up that may caused boring among the children.

The teachers are trained to be persuasive in facing the pupils, so that they can understand, comprehend fully, and finally planted firmly in the pupils’ minds. Memorizing social science topics without thinking are not encouraged, rather, through understanding, except for mathematics as well as mathematical formulas.

The teaching-learning activities in Al Jabr Islamic School is performed through creating comfortable, safe, and convenient environment, so that it may emerge potentials owned by the pupils without hesitance, i.e., an environment that is able to give chance to be initiative, actively participate in learning process, positively interact and be motivated to learn difficult lessons.

The Curriculum of Al Jabr Islamic School is called an Integration Curriculum based on the constructivism theory, where the pupils are learning concretely and meaningfully, so that the subject is easy to understand and interpret by the pupils, give chances to the pupils to work in team for performing experiments. The pupils’ understanding process against something is influenced by their previous knowledge, and in turn, this understanding becomes effective through discussion as well as question and answer, which will add to their anxieties, so that they like to learn more and more. 

 PYPIB Curriculum

What is the curriculum framework? The curriculum framework consists of five essential elements: concepts, knowledge, skills, attitude, action. The knowledge component is developed through inquiries into six transdisciplinary themes of global significance, supported and balanced by six subject areas. The curriculum framework is further structured around three interrelated questions.

• What do we want to learn? The written curriculum. • How best will we learn? The taught curriculum. • How will we know what we have learned? The learned curriculum.

Grade 1/ 6-7 years

• Identity, creativity, diversity - form connection and perspective
• Public areas, cooperation, partnership - function and connection
• Empathy, invention, transformation - causation perspective and reflection
• Air, force, energy - function and causation
• Interdependence, organization, systems - connection and responsibility
• Lifestyle, resources, environment - change and responsibility

Grade 2 / 7-8 years

• Health, wellbeing, balance, growth, patterns, norms - function and causation
• Global perspective, location, orientation - connection and perspective
• The arts perception, self expression - function, perspective and reflection
• Structure, sustainability, transformation materials - connection and responsibility
• Interdependence, employment -function, causation & connection
• Water conservation, equity, processes - function and responsibility

Grade 3 / 8-9 years

• Different learning style, diversity, motivation - function, perspective and responsibility
• Self-concept, family history, tradition, culture - change and reflection
• Sign symbols, culture, media, pattern - form and connection
• Human survival, erosion, geology, tectonic plates, movement -causation and change
• Communities, services, network –function, causation and connection
• Living things adaptation, evolution - change and connection

Grade 4 / 9-10 years

• Beliefs, diversity, perception -perspective and reflection
• Migration, population, settlement – causation, change and perspective
• Interaction, values, stereotype, self fulfillment - causation and perspective
• Energy, conservation, transformation - form, function and connection
• Marketplaces, interdependence, supply , demand - function and connection
• Risk, challenge, equality, rights - function and reflection

Grade 5 / 10-11 years

• Decision making, choices, rights, responsibilities, empowerment -causation, change and connection
• Civilization system , continuity, progress, technology, migration -causation, change and perspective
• Appearance creativity, diversity, stereotypes - function, perspective and reflection
• Materials, matters, measurement, transformation - form, function and responsibility
• Government or governance, equity, values - function and responsibility
• Ecosystems, balance, biodiversity ,interdependence – connection and responsibility