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Where the magic happens: Our Basecamps

BIS kids graduate from one room to another when they are developmentally ready not just because the year ends or they have a birthday.

Our teaching teams track student development along a range of developmental continua covering areas like academic, physical, socio-emotional and self direction.

This allows us to work out the optimal time for them to move to the new classroom setting for them to thrive.

Graduation from one classroom to the next is a joyful and exciting experience, where the student feels empowered, involved in the process, and committed to the movement. Parents are key members of any transition process, and we look for feedback on whether the transition is going as expected, to speed it up, or slow it down.

Explore our Basecamps

In our classrooms, called “Basecamps”, students work with their educators, implementing the Australian Curriculum through direct training and instruction, developed to better connect with the needs of learners as well as the adults who work with them.

Each class has a starting out point of rich questions and themes to explore through discussion. The experience of training is designed to help the student gain the information and skills they need, so they can go on to their exploration. Learn all about our Basecamps below:

Prep/pre-prep
Meet the Big Cats

Big Cats

Courage, balance, play

≈ grade: prep

The Big Cats classroom is often noisy, exciting, messy and full of little egos vying for supremacy: just the way it should be for ages from 4 and a half. This stage is about hands-on concrete experiences, where our senses tell us how to experience the world.

Lower-primary
Meet the Penguins

Penguins

Trust, choice, focus

≈ grade: 1-3

The Penguin student is beginning to feel empathy, when looking to see the feelings on other people’s faces or in learning to listen to their stories. The Penguin is just beginning to understand consequential thinking and to reflect on their choices.

Upper-primary
Meet the Dolphins

Dolphins

Lead, question, bond

≈ grade: 4-6

The Dolphin is fully aware of the needs of others and how their fulfilment at the same time as theirs, makes everything work better. The challenge at this stage is that they still are developing an awareness of an interior self.

Take a closer look

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2447 Moggill Road, PULLENVALE QLD 4069
PO Box 17, KENMORE QLD 4069

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Phone or Text: 0435 265 569
Email: office@bis.qld.edu.au

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