PYP
With a focus on holistic development, GIS nurtures children’s potential, curiosity, and innate talents to shape confident, independent learners and well-rounded individuals.
The Enhanced PYP curriculum emphasizes learner agency, where students take ownership of their learning. At GIS, the teacher-student relationship is a partnership, encouraging students to set goals, monitor progress, and engage actively. Through collaborative inquiry and integrative approaches, our students develop the IB Learner Profile attributes, enabling them to adapt to challenges and contribute to creating a better, peaceful world.
GIS fosters a vibrant PYP learning community that extends beyond classrooms to families, educators, and the broader IB network. By cultivating respect for diverse cultures and nurturing open-mindedness, GIS prepares global citizens who lead by example, valuing inclusivity and fostering meaningful change in their communities and beyond.
EYP & PYP
Gateway International School (GIS) has been an authorized Primary Years Programme (PYP) school since 2017, offering a curriculum designed for students aged 3 to 12. With a focus on holistic development, GIS nurtures children’s potential, curiosity, and innate talents to shape confident, independent learners and well-rounded individuals.
The Enhanced PYP curriculum emphasizes learner agency, where students take ownership of their learning. At GIS, the teacher-student relationship is a partnership, encouraging students to set goals, monitor progress, and engage actively. Through collaborative inquiry and integrative approaches, our students develop the IB Learner Profile attributes, enabling them to adapt to challenges and contribute to creating a better, peaceful world.
GIS fosters a vibrant PYP learning community that extends beyond classrooms to families, educators, and the broader IB network. By cultivating respect for diverse cultures and nurturing open-mindedness, GIS prepares global citizens who lead by example, valuing inclusivity and fostering meaningful change in their communities and beyond.
LERNING ENGLISH
English is the academic language of the school. To ensure all students benefit from the programme, the school makes provision for students whose first language is not English. Gateway welcomes students with no prior knowledge of English in the Primary YearsProgramme and lower years of the Middle Years Programme. English is taught at language acquisition level within the timetable for those with ESL needs.
Mother tongue support
At GIS, we recognize the importance of maintaining proficiency in students' mother tongue alongside learning English. This dual-language approach enriches their academic, social, and emotional development. Students are encouraged to celebrate their cultural heritage through active participation in assemblies and events, fostering pride and connection to their roots.
Additional languages
At Gateway International School [IB], we embrace a holistic approach to language learning, integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing as interconnected skills. Grammar is taught contextually, enhancing communication in both written and spoken forms. Alongside Tamil, Hindi, and French, we offer Spanish from PYP 4 onwards, fostering students' enthusiasm for acquiring new language skills and building proficiency in communication.
Special Education Needs (SEN)
Gateway strongly encourages students’ participation across the curriculum. Parents of
those students who have received counselling, support, therapy or have been diagnosed with special educational needs should include all relevant diagnostic reports and evaluation documentation for confidential review.
Exhibition
The PYP exhibition at GIS is a student-driven, collaborative process where learners explore and present issues of personal significance. Guided by mentors, they take ownership of their learning, demonstrate understanding, and showcase their capacity for meaningful action.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
At Gateway International School, we embrace students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Our teachers support ESL students in integrating into an English-speaking environment, ensuring they feel comfortable and confident. By attending core and enrichment classes with peers and receiving differentiated English language lessons, students build the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to thrive in our curriculum.
Founder's Voice
MYP
Gateway International School (GIS) is an authorized Middle Years Programme (MYP) school, authorized in December, 2016. The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) aims to meet the educational needs of students between the ages of 11 and 16.
The MYP is designed for students aged 11 to 16. It provides a framework of learning that encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers. The MYP emphasizes intellectual challenge, encouraging students to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and the real world. It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement, qualities that are essential for life in the 21st century.
The young minds at this crucial stage require an engaging and holistic curriculum that is
relevant to the important real world issues that concern them – from the personal to global. They are encouraged to become experts at learning and their ability to locate, process, critically evaluate and communicate information is heightened. The MYP programme focuses on the ability of the students to draw the connection between the traditional subjects and the real world. The programme also develops the skills that are needed essentially, some of them being communications skill, intercultural understanding and global engagement. The MYP aims to help students develop their personal understanding, their emerging sense of self and responsibility in their community.
The IB MYP also relies on connecting classroom pedagogical practices and content to the world outside through the Global Contexts and the Learner Profile. The IB MYP prepares students for the IB Diploma Programme, which was established to provide students with a balanced education, facilitate geographic and cultural mobility and to promote international understanding.
MYP unique approach relevant for today’s global society
The MYP’s core features five contexts for learning that provide powerful opportunities to engage in the study of issues that affect students today. Using a common language, teachers organize the curriculum through the following areas of interaction.
Approaches to learning
Approaches to learning represent learning skills that students will develop and apply during the programme and beyond.
Community and service
Community and service considers how students can learn about their place within communities and be motivated to act in new contexts.
Health and social education
Health and social education is designed to help students identify and develop skills that will enable them to function as effective members of societies. They also learn about how they are changing and how to make informed decisions that relate to their welfare.
Human ingenuity
Human ingenuity deals with the way in which human minds have influenced the world and considers the consequences of human thought and action.
MYP subject groups
The MYP ensures breadth and depth of understanding through study in eight subject groups.
In years 4 and 5, students have the option to take courses from six of the eight subject groups.
Personal Project – What is it all about?
The personal project is an important part of the MYP. Students learn to manage and direct their own inquiry and further develop the skills they have learned through the MYP. Under a teacher’s supervision, each student leads the process of developing the personal project. Assessment stands as a summative review of students’ ability to conduct independent work, using the areas of interaction as contexts for their learning.
Assessment in the MYP
MYP assessment at GIS adheres to globally consistent, criterion-related standards set by the IB. Teachers design diverse tasks, such as problem-solving activities, debates, experiments, and reflections, to evaluate student achievement based on established objectives rather than comparisons with peers. This rigorous approach nurtures a broad skill set, preparing students for academic success and written examinations, while aligning with the renowned standards of the IB.
DP
The IB Diploma Programme (DP) is a rigorous and balanced educational framework for students aged 16 to 19, equipping them for success at university and beyond. Recognized
by leading universities worldwide, it addresses students’ intellectual, social, emotional, and physical well-being, fostering holistic growth and lifelong learning.
Gateway International School (GIS), an authorized DP school since 2017, emphasizes structured inquiry as a cornerstone of learning. The Diploma Programme helps students
gain breadth and depth of knowledge across six subject groups, develop a positive attitude toward lifelong learning by honing their essential life skills, and cultivate socially responsible actions, and study multiple languages to deepen cultural understanding, including their own. At GIS, we nurture students’ potential, fostering curiosity and respect for cultural diversity, shaping them into empathetic, caring, and globally-minded individuals committed to making a positive difference.
The Diploma Programme core
The extended essay asks students to engage in independent research through an in-depth study of a question relating to one of the DP subjects they are studying. The world studies extended essay option allows students to focus on a topic of global significance which they examine through the lens of at least two DP subjects.
Theory of knowledge (TOK)
Theory of knowledge (TOK) develops a coherent approach to learning that unifies the academic disciplines. In this course on critical thinking, students inquire into the nature of knowing and deepen their understanding of knowledge as a human construction.
Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS)
Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) emphasizes helping students to develop their own identities, in accordance with the ethical principles embodied in the IB mission statement and the IB learner profile. CAS complements a challenging academic programme in a holistic way, providing opportunities for self-determination, collaboration, accomplishment and enjoyment. It involves students in a range of activities alongside their academic studies throughout the DP. The three strands of CAS are creativity (exploring and extending ideas leading to an original or interpretive product or performance), activity (physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle) and service (collaborative and reciprocal engagement with the community in response to an authentic need).
Group 1
Studies in language & literature
- English A: language & literature SL/HL
- English A: literature SL/HL
Group 2
Language acquisition
- French ab initio
- French B SL/HL
- Spanish ab initio
- Spanish B SL/HL
- Hindi B SL/HL
- Tamil B SL/HL
Group 3
Individuals & societies
- Business management SL/ HL
- Economics SL/HL
- History SL/HL
- Psychology SL/HL
- Digital societies SL/HL
- Global politics SL/HL
- Environmental Systems and Societies SL/HL
Group 4
Sciences
- Biology SL/HL
- Chemistry SL/HL
- Physics SL/HL
- Computer Science SL/HL
- Design technology SL/HL
- Environmental systems and societies SL/HL
- Sports, exercise and health science SL/HL
Group 5
Mathematics
- Math analysis and approaches SL/HL (for engineering and science streams)
- Math applications and interpretations SL/HL (for business/commerce streams)
Group 6
The arts
- Visual arts SL/HL