Academic Excellence

Respect for All

Balance in Life

Dedicated Service

PYP Key Words: Inquiry-based, Challenging, Caring 

CISK PYP offers interesting, relevant, and challenging multidisciplinary courses centered around developing the students’ knowledge base, understanding of concepts, skills, attitudes, and their ability to take action inside and outside the classroom. In PYP, our students have agency over the direction of their curriculum (“voice, choice, and ownership”), and are willing to take responsibility for their own autonomous learning. The school has one expat teacher and one Chinese teacher to support the students of each class.

MYP Key Words: Reflective, Critical-thinking, Balanced 

CISK MYP encourages students to become creative, critical, and reflective thinkers. It emphasizes overcoming challenges, and encourages the students to build connections between traditional subject content and the real world. It supports students in developing their communication skills, multicultural understanding, and global involvement.

DP Key Words: Internationally-recognized, Academically-challenging, Beneficial

CISK DP is rigorous and effectively prepares students for post-secondary education, helping produce well-rounded and academically talented students. Students enjoy the flexibility of choosing their own courses, which allows them to target the subjects that are of particular interest to them and that they wish to pursue further study of in university.

CISK offers a wide variety of subjects for our DP students to choose from. Our graduates consistently obtain above average results on their overall DP scores and have been accepted to universities all over the world, including schools listed in the world's top 25.

We support our students and families throughout their DP journey. Our university guidance counselors begin working with students and their families in Grade 9 to set and meet their post-secondary goals, and our coordinators guide our students through meeting the IB DP requirements.

CISKers are lifelong learners! We offer a globally recognized, authentic IB framework with a community of educators focused on developing curious learners with the tools they need to keep learning and growing throughout their lives.

CISKers are multilingual! CISK provides an English and Mandarin immersion environment for all students. For those learning to speak English, our ESL support program is offered to help remove any language barriers. CISK also values the development of students’ mother tongues and works to support their continual learning, from providing resources in our libraries to supporting self-taught language courses in students’ native languages in our IB diploma program. CISK also offers additional language courses to students in multiple divisions through our CCA program.

CISKers are nurtured individually! We provide small class sizes with no more than 20 students, which makes the classes more engaging and practical. Educators are able to provide individualized attention and cater to each student’s needs.

CISKers balance work and play! CISK offers an extensive extracurricular program to support student exploration and allow them to pursue their passions and interests outside of academia.

CISKers are open-minded and caring! A diverse learning community gives our students more opportunities to learn to respect differences and nurture their self-awareness. CISK respects different cultural backgrounds and looks at different perspectives without judgment.

CISKers are independent learners! Self-motivation is cultivated in our learning environments. Students are encouraged to engage in critical thinking and learn valuable life skills that can be applied inside and outside the school.