Private Educational Institution «SIS» was registered in November, 2014. This educational institution was formed as a result of reorganization of «Simferopol international school», established in 2003.
This is the private school of I – III degree that provides the education of humanities by profound studying of the foreign languages, by bilingual teaching of science and mathematics subjects and foreign languages. The School also gives scientific and practical training of the students, meets various educational needs of a personality, especially those related to the area of humanities.
Also there works preschool department of institution, which admits children from the age of two years. Preschool department works from 8-00 a.m. to 6-00 p.m., daily from Monday to Friday. Children get meal 5 times per a day; they are always under the control of medical staff.
Teachers lead the main educational lines in groups up to 21 children. In addition to this, other professionals work with children in the following directions: music, choreography, fine arts, physical education, English language (from the age of 3 years), computer Science (from the age of 5 years).
Daily kindergarten pupils` regime includes not only classes, but also a necessary period of time in a fresh air and a nap. All the conditions for the comprehensive development of preschool age children are provided in kindergarten. Graduates of SIS Kindergarten — successful and healthy pupils.
The aims of the School:
— to create the best conditions for individual development, realize creative needs of gifted and talented children
— to build and develop a socially mature, creative and competent personality with a deliberate civic stand, with a feeling of national consciousness, to involve national and human values.
— to create conditions for students` mastering the system of scientific knowledge about nature, human being and society, preparation for professional self-awareness.
The curriculum has the following features:
- English language and Computer science study begins in the 1st grade.
- German language is added to the schedule in 5th form.
- Bilingual education (both in Russian and in English) in mathematics, physics and chemistry begins in the 8th grade.
- Beginning from the 10th grade the educational process is organized in accordance with the foreign languages direction.
The system of supplementary education for pupils is represented in following sections, faculties:
• artistic and aesthetic line: choreography, choral studio, sport ballroom dancing studio.
• sport recreation line: judo, remedial gymnastics, tennis.
There are extracurricular activities such as: English drama club and Debate club.
The pupils are also given the opportunity of further studying of German, French, Crimeantatar and Ukrainian languages.
SIS school daily schedule:
Lessons begin at 8.45 in the morning.
Breakfast is served after the first lesson, lunch – after the fifth, high tea – at 3:20 p. m.
4.55 p. m.- dismissal, the time when students go home.
There exists a system of picking students up from their homes in the morning and bringing them back after lessons. According to will of parents a contract can be made up, and any student can use this system called ‘school bus’.
Features of the teaching and educational process:
Pedagogical philosophy of the School provides the realization of the concept of education being in accordance with culture, the construction of the educational process on the basis of individuality orientation, the maintenance of realization of various cultural and educational functions of the School.
A constituent part of the school metaculture is complete assistance to development of each personality as a free intellectual. The concept ‘metaculture of the School’ includes the atmosphere itself, the spirit prevailing in the educational institution – this joyful union of freedom and feeling of being at home with great responsibility for results of the learning activities. It also involves creation of the emotionally comfortable atmosphere in the collective, in which a child isn`t scared, feels himself (or herself) free and at the same time fulfills his (or her) duties, often quite hard, conscientiously and responsibly. Each student understands one very important fact: here the knowledge is considered to be on the first place, not a mark, so in the process of education one can be free to make mistakes or even start a discussion with a teacher.
The success of Simferopol International School students is in considering all the children talented.
Admittance of the School achievements.
A specific feature of Simferopol International School is the high level of education content providing an individual educational path of the students and being realized through:
— profound studying of different subjects within according way of education;
— studying of the second foreign language;
— individual tutorials and lessons;
— ‘additional’ education system: open classes, clubs, sports sections, excursions, project activity.
The system of upbringing work.
In formation of the School upbringing system there are some defining principles such as:
— humanization and democratization of the educational process confirming the pedagogical collaboration of a teacher and a student;
— individually oriented way of teaching and upbringing that involves study of students` skills and opportunities, formation of personality`s system of values, creation of conditions necessary for self-expression and self-realization of students in different areas of activity;
— unity of national consciousness and everything common to all people, what underlies in the formation of high spiritual culture and humanistic thinking through the prism of values common to all mankind;
— culturological way of upbringing which means the obtainment of legal, political and economical education of the students, focusing on humanities and developing the esthetic taste and comprehension of beauty.