International Boarding School in Germany

Hessen International Day And Boarding School:
Our school is a day and boarding school, for boys and girls. Grades: Pre K - 12, currently to grade 4. (upper classes will be added each year). Hessen International School is situated in beautiful modern buildings in the Otto-Volger Street, Sulzbach / Taunus in the north west of Frankfurt Main. We offer full residential facilities to children from the age of 5 years. English is the language of instruction. ESL is taught from year 1 to year 10. German for native speakers is offered from preschool.

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The Foundation Stage:
The Foundation Stage includes Nursery (3–4 year olds) and Reception (4-5 year olds). During this time the children playfully learn and develop their speaking, listening, dancing, singing, stories and counting. They learn through doing and by using all their five senses. They develop their basic skills which is necessary and useful for the start when they reach Year One. During Reception reading is introduced and children can take some books to read at home.

The Foundation Stage Curriculum
Areas of Learning and Early Learning Goals
The Foundation Stage Curriculum is based on the British National Curriculum. At this stage the curriculum is divided in the the following six areas:
- Language, Literacy and Communication
- Numeracy and Mathematical Development
- Creative Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Knowledge and Understanding of our World 
 
National Curriculum Key Stage One and Two
The core subjects at Key Stage One are English and Maths. At the end of Key Stage One children sit for SAT Tests in the core subject. Below is a list of the all the subjects that they do.

Key stage One Subjects
Art and Design
Citizenship
Design and technology
English
Geography
History
ICT
Mathematics
Music
Physical education
Science
Personal, social and health education
Religious education

Key stage Two Subjects
Art and design
Citizenship
Design and technology
English
Geography
History
ICT
Mathematics
Modern foreign languages
Music
Physical education
Science
Personal, social and health education
Religious education

National Curriculum Key Stage Three and Four
The key stage Three Subjects
Art and design
Citizenship
Design and technology
English
Geography
History
ICT
Mathematics
Modern foreign languages
Music
Physical education
Science
Personal, social, health and economic education
Religious education

The key stage Four Curriculum
There are 10 subjects at Key Stage 4 (14-16 years old). These are the GCSE courses and consists of 4 core subjects namely English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Science and a foreign Language. The other 4 courses can be chosen from the a range of the other subjects.
The assessment of these courses is done at the end of Year 11 and results in the award of the GCSE Certificates.