Our Goals for
Teaching & Learning
Everyone in the school, regardless of background or starting point, achieving the highest academic standards.
Equipping students with the values, attitudes and attributes that will serve them well in university, the workplace and all aspects of their life.
Delivering this outcome consistently, year on year, regardless of changes to context or circumstances.
Our
Curriculum
We follow the National Curriculum for England.
This defines targets in each area of the curriculum for children to achieve in terms of knowledge, understanding and action. The development of learning skills, independent thought, creativity and a love of learning are wider aims of the curriculum and are embedded in all that we do.
All pupils are expected to work hard to achieve their academic potential. Ultimately, academic success in GCSEs, A Levels and University admissions is an aim of the curriculum and an aspiration of students, staff and parents. We believe that such success is best achieved through a broad curriculum with a wide variety of opportunities for pupils to develop and practise their own academic interests.
Our Learning Ethos
Our Learning Ethos underpins learning and teaching throughout the school.
The aim of our Learning Ethos is to nurture and support our pupils to grow into:
Hard Working and Secure Individuals
Agile and Resourceful Learners
Empathetic and Respectful Contributors
High Performance
Learning (HPL)
British School Muscat is a High Performance Learning (HPL) World Class School. We were only the third international school in the world to achieve this award in 2019.
The High Performance Learning (HPL) World Class School Award recognises the very best schools in the world and is designed for those at the forefront of educational thinking. They have teaching and learning at their heart and are committed to moving from some students learning at high levels to all students learning at high levels.
Schools that have undertaken HPL’s rigorous 2-year World Class School Award scheme have met demanding standards and have transformed the way they function. They have changed attitudes and practices amongst staff, students and parents and see that translated into better results and outcomes for their students. When the HPL philosophy and framework is fully embraced, the effect is transformational.
HPL develops the essential skills, values, attitudes and attributes needed to reach success, both in school and beyond. Students learn how to succeed through the use of a consistent educational language that is shared between students and teachers; it enables students to think flexibly and creatively while developing the capability to self regulate when things don’t go to plan.
This provides students with lifelong skills to be high performing learners.
The consistent educational language that is used can be seen in our BSM Learning Ethos and our BSM Thinking Skills.
- You can read more about High Performance Learning on the HPL website.
- You can read more about BSM's HPL philosophy in this article by the Kai Vacher, in the Principal's Blog:
Kai Vacher, BSM Principal, was recognised as an HPL Fellow on 29 June 2021 by Professor Deborah Eyre, Founder and Chair of High Performance Learning.
HPL advice
for Parents
Parents can play a huge role in helping their kids to fulfil their academic potential, and advanced learning expert Professor Deborah Eyre and education journalist Wendy Berliner, believe they know just what parents need to do. Here are Berliner and Eyre's tips to help your child to fulfil their academic potential.
The latest neurological and psychological research shows most children are capable of reaching the high levels of performance previously associated only with the gifted and talented. IQ and potential isn't fixed - evidence shows it can be grown, and the key is developing the right learning attitudes and attributes.
The vast majority of children could do really well at school, but unless parents play their part and help them learn the habits of high performance, they're far less likely to get there. Here are 6 practical things that parents can do: