LTSM Primary
Students' Educational Journey in Primary School
The first stage of schooling offers children the opportunity to follow a complex and symbiotic National and Cambridge curriculum, helping them discover and explore their talents, develop their passions, and fully realise their intellectual potential. Alongside the subjects taught in the National curriculum, students also study the following subjects according to the Cambridge curriculum: mathematics, science, history, and geography. These are complemented by Global Perspectives, a course that encourages students to think of solutions in diverse contexts from a global perspective, within a complex web of interconnected factors. In numbers, the LTSM primary programme includes 11 to 12 hours per week taught in English and 11 to 13 subjects and programmes delivered according to the Cambridge Primary Curriculum or inspired by Cambridge.
LTSM offers solutions for every student!
With a strong focus on supporting each child's personal development, education at LTSM starts with Step One: identifying each student's individual intellectual profile. LTSM created the "Student Development" programme, which includes a cognitive abilities assessment and progress monitoring programme, through the annual administration of CAT4 (Cognitive Abilities Test).
This helps determine each student's individual academic potential, areas of strength and areas that are less developed, highlight possible learning difficulties, understand how a student thinks, and establish a scientifically designed learning pathway.
In Step Two, programmes are developed in an articulated and coherent way, according to each child's identified cognitive profile.
The integrated teaching method is based on interdisciplinarity and aims at:
- diversification and flexibility of teaching-learning situations through the use of various, interactive methods and procedures that motivate, stimulate the student to train initiative, imagination, creativity, desire to learn;
- focusing on objectives aimed at building skills, competencies, attitudes;
- student focus in designing learning activities.
The cognitive development of children and students refers to the way they think, explore the world around them and understand what they are experiencing.
Cognitive stimulation involves the acquisition of the necessary knowledge, the development of essential skills and the ability to solve problems.
Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea, through its programs and teachers, considers the cognitive development of children as fundamental to the successful course of life in the future adult.
Școala Mea has the mission to guide its students in shaping strong identities, preparing them for an active involvement in a global society.
Every child is born with a creative potential, which turns into effective capacity when stimulated and positively oriented by a supportive school environment and by a teacher with an encouraging and participatory attitude.
The school space and the actions organized within it allow children to explore and play without undue restrictions. The child’s unusual ideas are accepted without judging the divergent way in which he solves a problem, with enough time to explore all possibilities, to move from ordinary to original ideas.
In Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea we apply semi-realistic strategies to nurture expressiveness and creativity through thematic activities, in which students use plastic language, artistic language – in painting or graphic exhibitions, verbal – through literary creations, gestures – in theatrical performances.
LTSM offers tailored programmes to suit specific needs: we help the low attainers to make progress at their own pace, but we also encourage and support the high achievers to take further their learning.
Curriculum programme for teaching English, in accordance with the school’s status as an intensive English programme school.
The program of studying mathematics at the primary level aims to support the student in understanding the symbolic language specific to the field and its role in describing, modeling and predicting the characteristics of the world around.
The general competencies pursued are:
- Use of numbers in elementary calculations
- Identify the geometric characteristics of objects located in the environment
- Identifying phenomena / relationships / regularities / structures in the immediate environment
- Using the concepts of mathematical logic
- Problem solving based on sorting and representing data
- Use of conventional standards for estimations and measurements.
The annual number of hours allocated to the field is 272 hours, 8 hours / week.
The central objective of studying the Romanian language and literature in primary education is the development of children’s basic oral and written communication skills, as well as their familiarization with significant fictional and non-fictional texts suitable for 6/7 – 10/11 years old.
The discipline Communication in Romanian includes 9 hours of study per week, respectively 306 hours per year.
Students who want to cultivate their literary skills can do so in the weekly literary creation club.
Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea runs an intensive English language study program, through a British curricular topic, conducted with Romanian English teachers and proficient English speaking teachers, which effectively completes the preparation for the Cambridge exams (YLE, KET, PET, FCE). Also, Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea students have the possibility to choose the study of another modern language, such as Spanish, French or German.
At LTSM we have different projects that include monthly exhibitions with the best works from grades I-IV.
The curricular area Physical Education, Sports and Health includes the activities of the disciplines Physical Education and Game and Movement, whose aims are the education of motor skills, the development of effort capacity, cognitive and socio-affective maturation, by capitalizing on the valences of movement games.
To the 4 hours a week are added one hour a week football sports club and one hour sports dance club.
Primary school students participate annually in interscholastic sports competitions, Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea being the organizer of the “Cup of Good Hope” Football Tournament.
| CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITY | PREPARATORY CLASS | GRADE I | GRADE II | GRADE III | GRADE IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Math Cambridge” | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| “Science Cambridge” | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| “Humanities Cambridge” | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| “Personal, Social and Health Education Cambridge” | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mathematics Performance Club “Math+” ** | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Global Explorers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| “Language Games” Club | ✓ | ||||
| “Tracing Exercises” Club | ✓ | ||||
| Reading Club “I Can Read Club” | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Creative Writing Club “Communication+” | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Romanian Language and Mathematics Reinforcement (Grades I–IV) plus History and Geography (Grade IV) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Drama * | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stretch’n Grow – Sports Workshops | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Chess Club | ✓ | ||||
| ICT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| “School Beyond the Classroom” Programme | ✓ | ||||
| “Cultural Experiences” Programme | ✓ | ||||
| “Biology, the Science of Life” Programme | ✓ | ||||
| “Identity and Cultural Diversity” Programme | ✓ | ||||
| “Financial Education – KEN” Programme | ✓ | ||||
| Extracurricular Activities Programme during Themed Weeks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea runs speech therapy programs that aim to achieve the language objectives of primary school students in activities such as writing, reading, speaking and expression, conceptual clarity, using techniques of summary, description, vocabulary enrichment, intonation and pronunciation. Following speech therapy sessions, students learn independence and clarity in oral and written expression.
The PSHE program is part of the National curriculum for England that LTSM applies, thus enabling students to develop their skills and consolidate their knowledge in areas such as:
- Physical and mental health
- Social development
- Civic education
PSHE is integrated into the curriculum through the following subjects: science, geography, ICT, physical education and is transmitted, both implicitly and explicitly, in many areas of school life through the Global Living programme (assemblies, The Teacher Next 2U – mentoring programme, My Parent, My Hero – entrepreneurship programme).
Frequency – 1 hour / week.
Organized custom intervention classes (grades II-IV) in the subjects: mathematics, Romanian, English, depending on the recommendations of the teachers in the class.
LTSM organizes advanced learning programmes for students passionate about subjects such as: Mathematics, Romanian language and literature, English. The programme for advanced learning is constantly carried out between October 1 and May 31.
