Secondary Program Grade IX - CBSE Curriculum

The Curriculum that is offered by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in Secondary grade 9 is based on National Curriculum Framework -2005 and it seeks to provide opportunities for students to achieve excellence in learning. Envisioning all round development of students, the curriculum is a perfect blend of curricular domain equitable with curricular areas. In an operational sense, the secondary curriculum is learner-centred with school being a place where students would be acquiring various skills; building self-concept, sense of enterprise, aesthetic sensibilities and sportsmanship.

We start learners on an exciting educational journey, setting out what they should be able to know and do at each stage of their primary education. The programme is designed to help learners develop the skills they need to succeed in their primary education and progress to Middle School by finishing their Cambridge Achievement test.

The main focus of the curriculum during these formative years revolves around:

Literacy- First language English
Numeracy
Science and Environmental education
Global Perspective
ICT and Digital Literacy
Second and Foreign Languages
Arts – Fine Arts and Performing Arts
Personal, Social and Physical Education

The main focus of the curriculum during these formative years revolves around:

INTERNATIONAL CURRICULUM

Cambridge is the most renowned in 168 countries of the world for its teaching and curriculum quality. Children learning primary programme at Meru are par with the best of international schools across the world.

TEACHING AND LEARNING

Quality teaching leads to quality learning. The introductory, extension and enrichment training from Cambridge plays a very important part in the teacher’s planning, practice and assessment skills at Meru.

ASSESSMENT

Formative Nature of Classroom assessment:

There is a baseline and endline assessment in subjects in the classroom through discussion, observation and lesson outputs. Meru uses all assessment guidelines provided by both Cambridge and CBSE Assessment to help to give formative feedback on the skills for learners to develop so that they can reflect on and improve their performance.

Baseline Assessment:

At the beginning of the school year, every child at Meru is given an opportunity to appear for a diagnostic test to identify the strengths and areas for improvement.

Formation/ Continuous Assessment and Monthly tracker:

On the basis of the baseline assessment, every child at MERU is supported with continuous ability wise support to progress towards full potential through additional support and effective feedback. At the end of every month, a student led, teacher and parent conference is conducted to discuss the child’s progress and action plan for the upcoming month is decided keeping the child in confidence.

Endline Assessment:

At every term and year end, the endline assessment reflects the evidence of the continuous progression in a child’s learning, providing data to support further progress.

Mindspark and Asset:

Nationally acclaimed Mathematics and external assessments program to boost the mathematical and spatial ability of students. Asset is a nationally acclaimed assessment platform to test the abilities in math, english and science for students in South Asia. Regular Olympiads are conducted to gauge the learning levels of children.

GLOBAL COMMUNITY

Being an international curriculum, our teachers participate in international subject forums with teachers from more than 100 schools. The benefits for teachers are: