Ahmedabad International School
Prospectus 2023-24
IGCSE Enrichment Program
Get future ready!
The enrichment program is designed to build a strong academic foundation through rigorous learning experiences that are connected to the real-world
Dear parents,
AIS was founded 22 years ago with the belief that self-learning leads to lifelong learning. We’ve spent each day of the last 22 years trying to build a school community that inculcates a love for learning, fosters social and emotional acuity, develops responsible global citizens, and builds a strong academic foundation. I thank you for being a part of this journey!
For the last 2 years, we’ve been working on reimagining our learning program from the ground up. We’ve looked within and looked beyond to define who we are and who we want to be. We’ve asked ourselves hard questions about what future-ready learning means and how we can make our classrooms more engaging and challenging.
After spending hundreds of days researching, planning, learning, and organising, I am proud to present our IGCSE Enrichment Program. Our IGCSE enrichment program is designed with two objectives in mind:
to help our students perform at their peak capacity in the IGCSE exams
to help our students develop an increased “career awareness” so they can put their best foot forward for their college applications
Students will therefore focus on four key areas as a part of our IGCSE enrichment program:
Achieving academic excellence through enhanced rigour across subject areas
Building an extracurricular portfolio that showcases a diverse range of skills and interests
Making an informed career choice by deep diving into 10+ career domains
Crafting their story through powerful writing strategies, learned in specialised workshops and sessions
In this prospectus, we introduce you to the key highlights of our enrichment program. We invite you to discover how students will fall in love with learning, discover their talents and passions, and become future-ready for college success!
Warm Regards
Gorsi Parekh
Managing Trustee
Achieving academic excellence
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Building your extracurricular portfolio
Build adva ced skills as a c eato i o e of these 4 domai s:
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theat e codi g, obotics, a d digital fab icatio
Showcase p ojects at school a d commu ity eve ts a d build you po tfolio fo college.
Imme se i o e chose spo t f om the fou optio s below a d compete at i t a- a d i te -school games.
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basketball volleyball
In the following pages, we have elaborated on each aspect
Overview of the IGCSE
Making an informed career choice
Explore 10 broad career pathways and 60+ specific careers with ower lub in Grades and Undertake micro internships in your shortlisted careers in Grade 10 with ower lu
Regular check ins with the AIS counselling team on career explorations and your roadmap to colleg
Interact with representatives from 40+ global universities during the AIS ollege Fair Attend webinars with Indian and international universities to understand their application process and admission criteria
Crafting your tory
Build creative writing skills across popular genres with The omegranate Workshop’s bi weekly in class session
Learn to write effective and powerful essays including your college application
articipate in three life design sessions o
Narrative building
rofile building
Network building
IGCSE Enrichment Program aspect of the Enrichment Program in a lot more depth.
Achieving academic excellence
Academic performance forms the cornerstone of a student’s university application. A student might have the best extracurricular activities and be involved in diverse community service initiatives but without strong academic records, the application lacks a key ingredient for success. At AIS, core academics have always been the focus but with our enrichment program, we want to be able to take learning to the next level by providing students with the best digital and physical resources to support rigorous academic learning across English, Math, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Business Studies, and Computer Science.
The enrichment program will focus on building an academically rigorous foundation in reading and writing through:
Cambridge coursework which will include three extended writing assignments and focus on speaking and listening
Creative writing classes with The Pomegranate Workshop be conducted bi-weekly by creative writing experts
Students will learn to write across different genres including epistolary, poetry, fantasy, science fiction, and humou
Students will learn writing types including argumentative, descriptive, and narrativ
Students will learn to write effective and powerful essays that will prepare them to write their college application essa
Students will learn by reading advanced literature, doing theatre activities, playing games, and immersing in socratic seminars and critical discussions on chosen novels
new state-of-the-art library
A equipped with age-appropriate physical and digital resources across all genres
Small group mentorship and coaching to ensure that every student is supported in their learning journey
About The Pomegranate Workshop
To strengthen our language program, we have partnered with
The Pomegranate Workshop, a Mumbai-based creative writing institution anthology
Advanced language skills of reading, writing, and critical thinking are foundational to success in high school and college - whether it is writing a powerful college application essay, acing the SATs, showcasing your projects, or learning how to craft your story.
. The Pomegranate Workshop will conduct bi-weekly classes with a focus on building academic and creative writing skills. Students will become storytellers as the year progresses and at the end of the academic year, students work will be compiled and curated by The Pomegranate Workshop into an which will be . A copy of this anthology will also be added to the school library.
released by a children s author
English
Math
Our Math enrichment program has been designed around three key anchors - conceptual rigour, creativity, and application. We want our students to develop higher order thinking skills such as analysis and evaluation and apply them to solve real life problems. Our aim is to promote creative and serious engagement with the subject so that students can score excellent grades in their board exams while falling in love with Math.
To achieve this, we will be supplementing our IGCSE Math program with the following key components:
Access to Kognity, a digital resource that makes Math interesting through in-built simulations
Students will use Kognity’s interactive textbooks and assignments to understand concepts in a deeper, meaningful wa Students will use Kognity’s student practice centre to improve learning outcomes across all topics
A dedicated Math Lab equipped with age appropriate physical and digital Math learning resources
Students will engage with simulations, hands-on activities, games, puzzles, manipulatives, and challenges to make connections between math concepts and real-life
Rigorous Math practice papers and tiered worksheets to ensure that students get plentiful opportunities to master their Math skills
Students will get practice papers and tiered worksheets that are tailored to their pro ciency level Students will be part of small group mentorship and coaching to ensure that they are supported in topics in which they are facing challenges
Irrespective of their chosen career paths post high school, students need a strong Mathematical foundation. Mastery in Math prepares students for success in high school, SATs, and national competitive exams; but most importantly it helps them become Math people - those who can see and apply Math everyday and everywhere.
The science enrichment program is built on the belief that students learn science best by doing – by designing their own experiments, by conducting investigations, and by testing scientific theories.
Biology, Physics, Chemistry
Learning in Physics, Biology, and Chemistry will be made more interesting through the following key components:
Access to Kognity, a digital resource that helps students forge connections between theory and real life
Students will use the interactive textbooks and simulations to make concepts come to life
experiments in the lab
Dedicated time for where students will think and act like scientists
Students will learn to design and conduct experiments in an authentic way
Rigorous past papers practice which will ensure that students are well prepared for their IGCSE exams
Students will be given tiered worksheets to cater to their proficiency leve
Students will be part of small group mentorship and coaching to solve their doubts and challenges, based on their performance in practice tests
Economics and Business Studies
Our enrichment offering for Economics and Business studies will have the following key components: Access to featuring business scenarios spanning multiple areas of business. Additionally, students will use Kognity to do assignments and practice questions.
Kognity’s 50+ global case studies
Field trips and guest speakers will give students an opportunity to learn from industry experts in diverse fields including pharma, real-estate, banking, chemical manufacturing, food and beverages, agriculture, hospitality, and media
Rigorous practice with past papers will enable students to to be exam-ready and to understand how to approach different types of questions for the different IGCSE papers
Small group mentorship and coaching will ensure that every student is supported in their learning journey
Skills learned in Economics and Business studies - making decisions, calculating risk, doing accounts, analysing data, researching, and more - are fundamental to success in life. We live in a land where students seem to have entrepreneurship in their very DNA. Through our enrichment program, students will sharpen their business skills and learn new ways to think and actively connect concepts to the real-world.
Computer Science
Our enrichment offering for Computer Science will have the following key components:
Access to Kognity, a digital resource which brings computer science to life through interactive content. Students will use it to do immersive assignments, hands-on programming tasks, and navigate case-studies.
Rigorous practice with past papers will enable students to be exam-ready and to understand how to approach different types of questions for the different IGCSE papers
Coding, robotics, and design thinking program at the Maker Space - Students who want to pursue a deeper interest in Computer Science and related areas can also choose to build their own projects by working alongside our engineer educators at our Makerspace.
Computer science is one of the most coveted skills in today’s times – a pathway to fast growing careers including coding and data science. Every new job that emerges today, depends at least in part, on technology, which points back to Computer Science. We want our students to be prepared for the jobs of tomorrow.
Building your extracurricular portfolio
To stand a strong chance of getting into the college of your dreams, it is important to have a wellrounded extracurricular portfolio - one that showcases your ambition, your interests, and your open-mindedness. Extracurricular activities are not just one-off volunteering roles - they require consistent time commitment, a high degree of initiative, and a certain level of leadership.
The IGCSE extracurricular offering is built for students to do just that. They can immerse in bothsports-based and passion-based creative pursuits.
Within sports, students will have the opportunity to choose one sport from four options:
Football Cricket
Basketball
Volleyball
For extracurricular portfolio building, students will have the opportunity to choose one of the following based on their interests:
Theatre
Coding, Robotics, Digital fabrication
Dance
Visual arts
Sports give students a platform like no other to build both - the mind and the body.
Sports
Our structured sports program will offer students an opportunity to build a wide range of skills while specialising in one sport. Students will choose one sport from four options: football, cricket, basketball, and volleyball.
Below are a few highlights of the sports program:
well-research sports curriculum
A by Sportz Village with options of competitive pathways for students who excel at specific sports
Well-qualified and experienced to conduct all classes and ensure effective delivery of the program
Sportz Village coaches
New dedicated facilities for sports training and hosting games
Round-the-year sports events including sports days and inter- and intra-school competitions
About Sportz Village
We want to ensure our students are well-rounded individuals who have critical life skills of performing under pressure, working in teams, and being perseverant. We have partnered with Sportz Village to build our sports offering. Sportz Village is India’s leading sports education organisation. With over 20 years of experience, Sportz Village has partnered with corporates, government organisations, and some of the best schools across India.
As one of the oldest artforms known to mankind, theatre provides students with multiple ways of expressing themselves and helps them become confident communicators.
Our theatre program has the following key components:
A fully equipped modern theatre studio where students get the opportunity to create and host performances
Highly trained drama who will conduct all the classes
teachers and facilitators from Rangbhumi
Rangbhumi’s Applied Theatre curriculum that focuses on social emotional learning and on providing students with exposure to a wide range of theatre practices
Students will learn improvisation, practical work, projection, pitch, tone, enunciation, scene work, and more
Students will understand and learn to work with elements of production including lights, sound, script, set, and costume
Theatre performances wherein students will create, lead, and stage plays based on the themes they want to explore. Some potential plays might include To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders, Dead Poets Society, Little Women, The Breakfast Club, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
An end of year production by the students to showcase their performing arts skills
About Rangbhumi
To give our students a rigorous performing arts foundation, we have partnered with Rangbhumi for our theatre program. Rangbhumi is one of Mumbai’s leading theatre groups and has several years of experience working with schools in and around Mumbai.
Theatre gives students a platform to refine their language, connect with their bodies, and tell stories that have the potential to engage an audience.
Theatre
Dance
A fully equipped modern dance studio where students will learn, practice, and stage performances
Expert dance instructors from SDIPA who will conduct all classes
The Shiamak Dance Education (SDE) curriculum that focuses on learning diverse dance forms including hip hop, contemporary, jazz, latin, and old school dances. skill-based progression instilling confidence to perform on stage
Performances during school’s cultural cele rations as a way of expressing their ideas and thoughts during dance
End of year annual performance to showcase their skills to the school and the larger community in Ahmedabad
About Shiamak Davar Institute for Performing Arts
Founded by the National Award Winner Shiamak Davar, SDIPA has over 25 years of experience in the dance and entertainment industry. Their Shiamak Dance Education (SDE) program runs in some of the best schools across India.
Visual arts
Art serves as a means of communication and self-expression! In today’s world, art takes many forms - an instagram post, an NFT, an AI generated illustration, or a beautiful authentic piece of oil painting. Students who select visual arts as an elective will build their arts portfolio for high school and college.
Below are the key components of the visual arts program:
A newly launched visual arts studio - a space that students will use flexibly to create and display art. Below are some of the materials and tools that will be available to students:
Drawing and painting materials including pastels, charcoal, canvasses, acrylics, easels, and so on
Printmaking materials including linoleum blocks, carving tools, printing ink, brayers, and printing presse
Sculpture materials including clay, plaster, wire, wood, metal, sculpting and carving tools
Digital art tools including computers, cameras, scanners, and softwares such as Figma, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator
Comprehensive visual arts curriculum which focuses on:
Diverse 2D and 3D art techniques
- painting, printmaking, origami, sculpting, pottery, textile designing, weaving, and mor
Wide range of media and materials
- exploring paper, clay, wood, sand, inks, paints, plaster, watercolour, tempera, pastels, and more
Art history
- discovering the origins of different art forms, knowing popular artists, and reading and critiquing art literature
A team of experienced artists and teachers to lead the program. Our educators will be facilitators and mentors for students who pick the visual arts program. They will work with the students to help them create a comprehensive portfolio that reflects the student’s diverse interests and talents.
Art gallery visits and artist tal ks - our art focused field-trips will provide students with the opportunity to draw inspiration from real-life artists and their work
Annual art exhibition will be an opportunity for students to showcase their projects to the larger Ahmedabad community.
As part of our comprehensive coding, robotics, and digital fabrication program, students will get the opportunity to learn new skills, get hands-on experience with engineering and design, and create a strong portfolio showcasing their projects.
Coding, robotics, and digital fabrication
oding, robotics, and digital fabrication are the backbone of the 21st-century economy. tudents who master these skills will be better equipped to meet future challenges. With a maker mindset, students can confidently approach any challenge with creativity, knowing they have the skills to create innovative solutions.
We have designed our program with the following key components:
A very large, futuristic makerspace equipped with manual and digital creation tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and more
A team of expert engineers and designers and designers will conduct all the classes and mentor student projects. They will work 1:1 with students to ensure that they have a strong portfolio for high school and college.
Project-based learning curriculum with three key modules: omputer cience: tudents will build coding skills using block-based coding and high-level languages. They will build apps, games, and AI model Robotics: tudents will build robots with sensors, motors and electronics for various applications such as self-driving vehicle, humanoid, and drones Digital fabrication: tudents will build commercially viable products with traditional and modern design and fabrication techniques
Portfolio building will be a core component of the program. tudents will also build a keystone project every year, thus creating a strong portfolio for their college applications.
Annual MakerFest will be an opportunity for students to showcase their projects to the larger community. tudents will also be encouraged to participate in other local and international events and competitions for making.
Career counselling
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Power Club
As part of our career exploration program, students will embark on a journey that will help them make informed career choices in the coming years. The career exploration program is designed in partnership with Power Club.
At the beginning of the program, students will be introduced to the course design and the various career pathways they will be exposed to:
Art and design: ashion design, interior design, architecture, product design, game design and more
Communication and media: ilm and T , marketing and advertising, social and digital media, animation and gaming, writing and publishing, journalism and P Technology: Web and app development, game development, cyber security, data science, A , hardware, robotics, and mor
Engineering: structural, mechanical, electrical, automobile, space and aeronautical, biomedical, materials, energy, and mor Science and research: math, biology, earth sciences, space science, and mor Business and entrepreneurship: sales and marketing, operations, people and culture, nance, consulting, business intelligence, and more ealth and wellbeing: general medicine and critical care, diagnostics, mental health, pharma, and more
Economics and nance: banking, insurance, investments, macroeconomics, and mor
Social science: history, geography, policies and governance, language and culture, law and ethics
Psychology: clinical, cognitive, social, and industrial-organisational psychology and neuroscience
Students will spend about six weeks exploring a career domain. During their explorations, students will undertake projects and challenges, meet industry experts and work with a coach to define their roadmap.
In Grades 8 and 9, students will embark on career explorations where they will get the opportunity to deep dive into 60 specific careers across 10 broad career domains:
In Grade 10, students will get to pursue micro-internships in the careers of their choice.
Students will prepare for the future with . and build a cohesive narrative of their work and their interests - a key skill for university applications
Narrative building, Pro le building and
Network Building
three life design sessions
Regular check-ins with the AIS counselling team
Applying to universities is a process that begins in Grade 9. Universities look at a student’s journey from Grade 9 all through high school.
Grade 8 and 9 students will meet 1:1 with the school counselling team once every term. These sessions will provide a platform for parents and students to share their goals and expectations and to co-construct a roadmap for the future.
meet 1:1 with the school counselling team once every two months
Grade 10 students will
. In these sessions, parents and students will make specific plans for extracurricular work, resume and portfolio building, and start looking to narrow down on university options.
Beginning in Grade 10, students will be exposed to a diverse range of universities aligned to their career interests. Students will also start preparing a roadmap to help them achieve their dreams. A few highlights include:
Orientations: Our school counsellor along with teachers will conduct timely orientations to help students create their academic journeys including guidance on the board they should opt for in grades 11 and 12.
College fairs: Students will get the opportunity to interact with during the AIS College Fairs.
representatives from over 40 global universities
University webinars: Students will attend selected international university webinars to understand their admissions process and acceptance criteria.
Important points regarding the enrichment program
The Enrichment Program will commence in June 2023 i.e. from the start of the academic year 2023-24.
While most components of the program will be embedded within school hours, others will be done after school hours or on weekends.
Registration in the enrichment program is optional. Students not opting for the program will continue with the current teaching & learning program offered by the school.
The additional fee for the Enrichment Program for the academic year 2023-24 will be Rs. 1,45,000/- (plus GST). This additional fee will need to be paid in 4 equal instalments along with the school fee.
Subscription to the Enrichment Program will be on an annual basis i.e. once students opt into the program, they will not be allowed to discontinue from the program during the course of the year. Similarly, students who don’t subscribe to the program at the beginning of the year will not get the opportunity to opt-in during the course of the year.
The enrichment program is a bundled offering which has been designed taking into account the specific needs of students of this age group. There is no option to subscribe to individual activities offered as a part of the enrichment program except the passionbased learning offering which has options embedded within.
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For any queries related to the enrichment program, please write to enrichment@aischool.net
