Norway, Stavanger
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English is the language of instruction at BISS Sentrum; the school welcomes 50+ nationalities and values students' mother tongues. For children new to English, teachers and support staff use Universal Design for Learning to ensure access at all levels of English proficiency. Norwegian is integrated across the curriculum in both BISS Gausel and BISS Sentrum, aligned with IB and LK20, with Language and Literature for fluent speakers and Language Acquisition for learners and national testing at PYP5, MYP2 and MYP3. In the IB Middle Years Programme, Norwegian is taught as a stand-alone language subject, and language acquisition also includes French and Spanish.
BISS is an IB World School with three campuses serving ages 1 to 16 in Stavanger, Norway. Preschool operates at Gauselbakken 105, while BISS Gausel (Primary & Secondary) is at 107 and BISS Sentrum (Primary & Secondary) at Tanke Svilands gate 73. The school offers the IB Continuum, with the Primary Years Programme (PYP) and the Middle Years Programme (MYP) on the Gausel and Sentrum campuses, and a Diploma Programme (DP) for older students. English is the language of instruction across the IB programmes, while Norwegian is integrated across the curriculum in both primary and secondary levels, with national testing at PYP5, MYP2 and MYP3. Preschool follows the Norwegian Framework Plan and supports English development in a multilingual environment. Learning is inquiry-based and aims to foster intercultural understanding and international mindedness. The school operates as an international day school, originally founded in 1977 and restructured in 2019 into three campuses.