The curriculum at BEPS – Waterloo has a strong commitment to the whole child.  We seek to foster each child’s intellectual, emotional, social and cultural growth, within a rich and stimulating environment.  The International Primary Curriculum (IPC) is all about helping children to learn in an active way.  Children’s learning must respond to their current and future personal needs and the needs of the varied societies and cultural groups in which they are likely to take part.

At the heart of the IPC is a central resource bank of about 70 units of work and each unit is themed around a major theme of real interest to children.  Examples are: dinosaurs, the rain forest, how we learn and famous people.  The starting point of each unit is what children can learn and not what they can do.  The activities in each unit have been carefully designed to reflect the new approaches to learning brought to us by research into the brain.  Specifically, each unit is designed to foster multiple intelligences, working alone and working in groups and the different learning styles of each child.

English is the language of instruction for the school and is, together with mathematics, taught on a daily basis.  As we live in Belgium, we have chosen French as our second language and all students have a daily French lesson.  Science, History, Geography, Art, Music and Physical Education are all taught as part of the IPC curriculum.  We have the resource of a brand new computer lab that is used on a weekly basis by all students. 

Our curriculum owes much to the National Curriculum of the UK and English and Mathematics planning draws on the Literacy and Numeracy strategies respectively and we use these to give continuity and progression to our learning.  They are both very rigorous in their approach and the expectations of achievement, as in all areas of the curriculum, are very high.

As teachers we are concerned with our pupils as whole people and we involve ourselves not just in the development of their intellectual abilities, but also their social, emotional, personal and cultural understanding.