These years are quite a sensitive developmental stage for students. This is a phase where they no longer require guidance at every step like primary schooling. Nor are they independent enough to make all the right choices. Thus, the pedagogy demands a balance, where the school (according Board Pi must introduce a few subjects and activities, but also keep the option of choice open so that the students understand the concept of professional freedom. Middle school students need to phase out their primary habits and start preparing for the senior stage. At this stage pace of academic demands is accelerated and, while holistic growth is always the focus, students are gradually prepared to accept bigger challenges. This is also the time where students learn to build on basics. A simple example being science branching out to separate subjects like physics, chemistry, and biology as soon as students enter the middle school stage. Here, students start refining their knowledge hinged on the basics they already know and the difficulty level naturally turns up by a notch.

This is also the time when students are grown-up enough to explore many more options, participate in niche areas of interest and develop those specific skill-sets. The pressure of Board examinations is yet to be. Thus, this is also the perfect time to build strong portfolios.

Only the best pedagogy, teachers and the management who are privy to the sensitivity of this phase can give your child the perfect experience. As teachers plan backwards, all learning plans revolve around a big idea and are inter-disciplinary in nature. Content and skills from the Natural and Social Sciences curriculum as well as literacy skills are inter-woven. It is a wholesome integrated approach that goes beyond the boundaries of subject curricula and provides multiple opportunities for the children to revisit and rework, thus creating an ethic of excellence through continuous planning, execution and reflection. Projects are an integral part of experiential learning and help children observe, reflect, analyze, synthesize and understand multiple perspectives. They empower the child to think about problems, whether social, cultural, technological or ecological, in a systemic manner and become an agent of social change. As children engage with UN Sustainable Development Goals while studying each new concept, they relate ideas, comprehend underlying issues and discuss potential resolutions. Critical thinking and problem-solving are at the core of learning at school.