Giving our students the world
At Impington International College, the UK’s leading state provider of the International Baccalaureate (Sunday Times Parent Power 2020), we are extremely lucky to welcome students to our learning community from all over the world. Johanna Sale, Vice Principal explains why.
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n our current sixth form cohort alone, we have students studying with us from across the UK and 13 other countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Belgium, South Africa, USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Israel and France – which creates a unique and very special learning environment for a state sixth form! One student once said to me that walking through our sixth form common room is like backpacking across the world; I couldn’t agree more.
As an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, international-mindedness sits at the heart of our College and, through our curricula offerings, approaches to teaching and learning and ethos, this is brought to life. We are extremely proud to have been teaching the IB programmes for 30 years. The approaches to teaching of IB programmes focus on developing inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. Therefore, ensuring that our students understand and appreciate their own culture and personal history, as well as being open to the perspectives, values and traditions of others is key, and something that comes alive in our classrooms.
It is this open-mindedness that is evident in all of
our Diploma Programme (DP) lessons. Rather than our students sitting rigidly during their lessons, they are encouraged to converse and debate; developing their natural curiosity by engaging fully in all lessons and opening themselves up to complex and sometimes hard discussions with their classmates and teachers. These conversations do not just take place in the
classroom. I feel an immense sense of pride when I walk around our College site and hear so many different discussions and, better yet, in a variety of languages too! To see our students from all over the world come together and debate, discuss and laugh is inspiring; the different beliefs, cultures and experiences that are discussed are priceless. It is also a joy to see how seamlessly our students mix and how our sixth form allows them to form unique connections with those who they may not usually cross paths with. Our College literally gives our students the world at their fingertips.
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