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Grade 1 to Grade 12 Academic Enrichment


English program

Brief Course Description

English Program is based on the BC curriculum and will improve Grade 1 to 12 students' knowledge of listening, speaking, writing and reading.  The program focuses on cultivating students' interest in learning English, laying a strong foundation for their future study, and helping them prepare for thesis writing and the provincial examination.

Learning Objectives

During this program, students will:

-       Focus on variety of research skills

-       Analyze different kinds of texts, including oral and visual texts along with critical thinking skills

-       Recognize how language shapes personal, social and cultural identity and respond to texts in personal, creative and critical ways

-       Transform ideas and information to create original texts

Express an opinion and support it with credible evidences.

Delivery Method(s): In-class instruction



French Program

Brief Program Description:

French program is based on the BC curriculum, designed to improve grade 1 to 12 students’ ability in French listening, speaking, reading and writing; enhance students’ vocabulary and grammar, as well as learning the French cultural context.

Learning Objectives:

During the program, the students will:

-       Grasp the linguistic and cultural variety found in the French-speaking world 

-       Distinguish between abstract notions and concrete notions within a text 

-       Identify and understand the social, historical, and cultural context of a work and its author 

-       Identify the themes and poetic elements of a text in order to understand the implicit message 

Analyze the plot and examine and understand the role and evolution of a character in a literary short story

Delivery Method(s): In-class instruction


Mandarin Program

Brief Program Description:

The Mandarin program is designed for all beginners, intermediate and advanced learners in Grade 1 to 12. Beside the language basics, the Mandarin program also contains some studies of Chinese culture and history.

Learning Objectives:

During the program, the students will learn:

-       Vocabulary, grammar, pronunciations and other language mechanics of Mandarin

-       Reading, writing, speaking and listening using Mandarin

-       The Chinese culture, including colloquialisms, cultural languages and events, and ideologies of Confucianism

-       to read, analyze and comprehend Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty

Other Chinese historical stories

Delivery Method(s): In-class instruction


Mathematics Program

Brief Program Description

Mathematics program is based on the BC curriculum, mainly to improve grade 1 to 12 students' ability to solve mathematical problems with creativity and flexibility, to connect the knowledge learned to reality, and to create their own knowledge derived from information in class.

Learning Objectives

During the program, the students will:

-       Explore, analyze, and apply mathematical ideas using reason, technology, and other tools.

-       Solve real-life problems with creative and flexible methods.

-       Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms.

Derive new mathematical knowledge from information learned from the class.

Delivery Method(s)In-class instruction


Integrated Science Program

Brief Program Description:

Integrated Science program is based on the BC curriculum, designed to enhance grade 1 to 12 students’ knowledge of science, generation research questions and answers those questions using support from external evidence and/or experimental data.

Learning Objectives:

During the program, the students will:

-       Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest

-       Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly complex ones, about the natural world

-       Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Topics from physics, chemistry and biology will be included

Delivery Method(s): In-class instruction

  

Social Studies Program

Brief Program Description:

Social Studies program is based on the BC curriculum, designed to help students in grades 1 to 12 to analyze, comprehend social and historical events, as well as to develop their personal opinions towards these events using credible evidence.

Learning Objectives:

During the program, the students will:

-       Read, analyze and comprehend materials of historical and social events, and ask new questions based on this material

-       Do research on a question and give their own answers to the question with effective support of evidence.

Connect a social situation with the historical context and analyze how the two aspects interact.

Delivery Method(s): In-class instruction


Program cost

Small class: average30/ hour



These Programs Do Not Require Approval BY the Registrar of PTIB.