Second Year

Programme of enquiry

Our units of enquiry are developed through vertical collaboration throughout First-Sixth years, based on our school's mission, values, and guiding principles. Our pupils will explore units on who we are,  where we are in place & time, how we express ourselves, how the world works, how we organize ourselves, and sharing the planet.

English as our main teaching language

Our Second Year English as first language programme develops skills, as outlined by the Common Core State Standards, in reading, writing, listening & speaking, and language. In primary school, our reading & writing workshops are deliberately designed to enable teachers to closely monitor progress, set meaningful learning goals, and meet the needs of every child.

Mathematics

In Second Year, pupils will focus intensively on these critical areas: (1) extending their understanding numbers & calculation, including understanding the meaning of multiplication and calculating the products of simple two-digit numbers; (2) describing and analyzing space & shapes, including right triangles, quadrilaterals, squares, rectangles, and objects that have the shape of a box; (3) extending their understanding of quantitative relations, including becoming able to organize & classify numbers & quantities in everyday life and to represent them by using simple tables & graphs, and to interpret these representations; and (4) incorporating practical activities for learning the above content into our units of enquiry.

Additional languages

To support pupils in streams learning either Chinese or Arabic, One World will apply an external set of curriculum standards aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Our primary school language programme will offer two options based on the pupil's language profile (English dominant, or other mother tongue [for example, Swahili] dominant). Pupils whose placement test enrols them at a mother tongue level may study their social humanities units of enquiry in their mother tongue, when necessary in an independent manner.

Social humanities

Social humanities do not appear as a standalone subject on classroom timetables; instead, their content and standards are embedded in our humanities units of enquiry throughout the year, as they learn, during who we are, about "my rights, my responsibilities"; during how we express ourselves, "the power of storytelling"; and during how we organize ourselves, about "people who make a difference", in keeping with the British Columbia social studies curriculum.

Specialists 

In all grades, pupils will attend specialist lessons for science, design engineering, primary school library, visual arts, music, theatre, and physical education, as appropriate throughout the year.