Welcome to the curriculum mapping site of Southbank International School - Westminster.

The curriculum is based on guidelines provided by the International Baccalaureate Organisation and is evaluated periodically by the IBO.

The International Baccalaureate Programmes aim to meet student needs and respond to their interests. It encourages links between subjects and to the real world. In order to achieve these aims, the curriculum must be flexible and continuously evolving. In practice this means, for example, that the order of topics in English might be altered to further a collaborative project between subjects; the emphasis in a science unit might be changed to reflect current issues in the news or a unit in mathematics might be extended in response to student questions. The curriculum maps define the key concepts and skills taught at each level of the programme but they are not are not rigidly prescriptive of teaching order and content. Curriculum development is an on-going process and the curriculum maps you see here are working documents which evolve over the course of the academic year.

To understand better the day to day work of students in their classes, we encourage parents to review their children's homework and class assignments as well to participate in regular parent-teacher conferences. Further details of any of the courses may be obtained from the heads of academic departments.

To view the curriculum, click on the Browse tab above. You can view general course descriptions and a unit calendar showing the order of major curriculum units. An overall view of the curriculum is shown in a curriculum map and you can also view details of individual units in the unit planners.