What makes iBS School different?

At iBS International Preschool, children learn through play and stimulated curiosity. Play is the primary activity for preschoolers and kindergarteners. With the UK-standard early years curriculum from the international education organization Fieldwork Education, iBS International Preschool maximizes the use of play in its lessons to impart knowledge to children.

Through 18 thematic units, children experience creativity, collaboration, and discover interesting things in life together. Fieldwork's education experts believe that allowing children to play and sparking their curiosity in the right way helps them develop cognitively, enhance motor skills, boost problem-solving abilities, cultivate a "refined aesthetic sense," and especially, improve language skills.

With all these positive aspects, iBS Preschool has turned every day at school into a happy day for children. They are happy to be welcomed each morning, happy to play with friends, happy to chat and be loved by their teachers every day, happy to participate in games—which are also lessons—in class, and happy to join the weekly and monthly extracurricular activities. All of this makes children want to come to school—every day—and helps iBS Preschool become a top choice on the list of international preschools in Ho Chi Minh City.

At iBS International Preschool, children are encouraged to participate in appropriate activities. "Appropriate" means that for the same theme, teachers design lessons according to different age groups. Then, teachers organize activities and encourage children to participate based on their interests, abilities, and even their mood on that particular day. To achieve this, after introducing the lesson's focus and interacting with the whole class, the teacher divides the class into small groups to carry out various learning activities, including main and supplementary ones.

In the main activity, the foreign teacher will guide, interact with, and support each child based on their individual developmental pace. For supplementary activities, teaching assistants will help children build additional age-appropriate skills. All images and products from the child's learning process throughout the theme are documented on the Learning Journey board and in the child's Portfolio.

With this approach, children rarely feel "bored" or "left behind" simply because their personality isn't suited to a particular activity. Children are always empowered to choose and are encouraged to make decisions, as well as to draw their own lessons—regardless of their age—in the classrooms of iBS International Preschool.

In all iBS classrooms, the child is always at the "center." This does not mean that teachers will "spoil" or "yield" to every demand of the child. With their experience, iBS teachers become patient and gentle "big friends" who listen, guide, and provide timely support for all of the children's activities at school. That is why if parents visit the school, they will easily notice the affection and attachment children have for their teachers, teaching assistants, and nannies in the classrooms of iBS International Preschool.

(Source: School's website)