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Junior School Curriculum

JUNIOR SCHOOL

The Junior School starts with Pre-school (known at the Australian International School Malaysia as Preparation or Prep) and continues to Year 4. It covers the first five years of Primary School.

Preparation

Preparation is our Pre-school. The curriculum offered integrates best practices from Australia and a play-based philosophy.

Kindergarten to Year 4

Kindergarten is the first year of mandatory schooling.

Students in the Junior School learn to read, write, talk and listen. They learn thinking, understanding, competence and confidence with numbers, shapes and measurements. They learn to investigate and problem-solve and they learn to be creative.

The teaching of reading is an essential area of development for children and AISM uses a combination of phonics (where students learn the names of letters and the sounds they make, using them to blend letters together to develop words) and the Look and Say approach (where students learn to recognise whole words or sentences).

The Junior School values all of the talents that students posses and runs a range of competitions to showcase these talents. We offer a Chess Competition, an Art Prize, a Poetry Competition, a Public Speaking Competition and a Dance Competition. The Junior School has a strong Performing Arts department that affords students many opportunities to perform in front of an audience.

The Junior School curriculum is based on the following Key Learning Areas (KLA) –

  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science and Technology
  • Human Society and Its Environment (Social Sciences)
  • Creative and Practical Arts – including Visual Arts, Music and Drama
  • Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
  • Languages Other Than English – students in all years study Bahasa Malaysia and from Year 2 also study Mandarin. Both are studied at levels appropriate to their age, stage and language background of the student.


Students have a class teacher for most KLAs and specialist teachers in Performing Arts, Languages and Library. Physical Education is conducted by the class teacher with direct assistance from a specialist Physical Education teacher.