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Tabubil International School prides itself on its academic standards and on its outstanding success in preparing students to return to schools in their home country or other international schools. This is not merely a happy coincidence but the product of strategies undertaken to provide parents with the reassurance that their children’s education in Tabubil has been of an appropriate standard and content.

The International Education Agency of Papua New Guinea’s curriculum has been formulated upon child centred, outcomes-based lines, typical of good primary practice common to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. What this means is that children’s individual levels of experience and attainment in different subjects form the starting point of their work at school.

Children work at their own personal highest level throughout, with their progress being checked and monitored on an ongoing basis.

In content the IEA curriculum is highly similar to those curricula in use in schools worldwide where there is an emphasis on the acquisition of skills through the attainment of structured outcomes.

Our teacher – pupil ration is approximately 1 to 25, this ensures that teachers can provide the best possible teaching and learning for all students in their class.

We hope that children moving to other schools will find the transition as smooth and painless as possible. Most parents will find the curriculum in the destination school similar in structure and content to that we employ. It should soon become apparent that children’s educational experiences have been rich and constructive during their time at this school.

Children at all IEA schools take the Basic Skills Test of New South Wales in Grade 3 and Grade 5. This provides a means of assessing their attainment in literacy and numeracy and comparing the results with those of their peers attending state schools throughout New South Wales, Australia.

Results for this school indicate that students achieve very similar results to those at an average New South Wales school.

Ok Tedi Mining is committed to offering the children of its employees a level of education, through the TIS, commensurate with their home country. Generous subsidies make it possible to recruit well-qualified, experienced and dedicated teachers.

Students leaving TIS will receive a leaving report and a portfolio of work to take with them. Transfer certificates will also be issued upon request.

TESTIMONIALS ON FORMER STUDENTS

We invite you to read through a random selection of letters and reports extracted from letters that we have received from the parents of former students reflecting on their return to their home country.

Grade 1 and Prep: Doing very well, and both in bright students programs (as expected…)

Grade 6: Settling in well and in the top streams for maths, language and science back in Tasmania.

Grade 5 and 3: Transferred back to South Australia. Both he and his sister did well and parents had no qualms about returning them to our system.

Prep: She spent a term or so back in Australia last year mid-prep class, and the parents were very happy with how she settled there.

Grade 1 and Grade 3: Both doing well, she won a prize for writing in a State competition.

Grade 6: Doing very well at school in Australia.

Grade 5 and 1: Parents were pleased with the daughter being promoted a grade. The son found some troubles adjusting, much as when he first got here, but is now settled.

Grade 6: The Dad reports that she is settling well at Kooralbyn International School in Queensland, and has been promoted to Grade 8.