Springboard International Bilingual School is a Candidate School* for the MYP. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that SIBS believes is important for our students.
*Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme, or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit www.ibo.org
Adhere to bilingual education
SIBS has three grades in middle school, including Grade 6 to Grade 8. Based on the characteristics of bilingual international education, the school integrates the American middle school curriculum with Chinese historical and cultural courses. Bilingual learning further strengthens the foundations of Chinese and English for middle school students. English learning helps students prepare to enter the English-language curriculum and classroom environment, and meets the requirements for future high-intensity education on writing, speaking, and researching skills.
Outstanding subject characteristics
In terms of subject knowledge, students have access to various disciplines of the natural sciences through comprehensive science and STEM courses and master laboratory capabilities such as scientific exploration and problem-solving skills.
For English Math, SIBS has an excellent team of mathematics teachers, teaching bilingual AP Calculus, Calculus preparation courses, Algebra one, Algebra two, Geometry and other courses; VCE mathematics, expert mathematics. Teachers could appeal and inspire students easily. The students they taught achieved excellent results in the Applied Mathematics of the South Australian college entrance examination, and their passing rate ranked the top in the district.
Springboard International Bilingual School College Profile 2020-21(Final).pdf