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About Garden
Garden International School is a welcoming and varied community, with families representing 65 different nations! With over 70 years of expertise in providing first-rate education to the local and foreign populations in KL, they provide great learning opportunities for students from a variety of academic backgrounds and skills. At the same time, they routinely produce some of the best academic achievements in the area, with value-added scores demonstrating exceptional improvement across all age groups.
Their accomplishments are a true credit to the exceptional teaching faculty, their dedication to continued professional growth, and their whole-school learning culture. Indeed, everyone at GIS is a student. In addition to assisting their students in achieving success in all aspects of school life, they provide their parents with weekly seminars on a variety of topics and other interesting learning opportunities during the academic year. Furthermore, their weekly professional development program for instructors is one of the most extensive in the region.
Furthermore, its robust CCA program, which is one of the largest in the region, guarantees that every GIS student has several opportunity to thrive outside of the classroom. Their students have every chance to get engaged and flourish in their chosen professions, whether via athletics, music, the creative and performing arts, or any other activity.
Why Choose GIS?
Innovative Teaching and Learning
GIS views education as an individual, lifelong pursuit of social, emotional, and intellectual growth. They think that every student has limitless potential and that their responsibility as educators is to arouse the many types of intellect and pique interest about everything in the actual and abstract worlds. Rich and genuine learning experiences are utilized to foster intrinsic skills, give opportunity to explore hobbies and passions inside and outside of the classroom, and encourage students to strive for greatness, all in the spirit of respect, integrity, and well-being.
Outstanding Results
Consistently strong academic performance places Garden International School among the top British international schools in the world. Their students get some of the best A Level and IGCSE scores in the area year after year.
After two years of interruption, all of their exams were externally examined this year, making their results even more spectacular. What their kids have accomplished in 2022 is a credit to their persistence and determination, as well as the unfailing support and dedication of their instructors.
Proven Success
Each year, GIS students win admission to some of the world’s most prestigious schools. In 2022, their students will enroll in 51 distinct programs at 47 institutions in 10 countries. They congratulate their tremendous accomplishments during this difficult year.
Holistic Education
The curriculum of Garden International School incorporates the overall learning experiences of the students, both within and outside the classroom. In addition to their learning in the classroom (taught curriculum), they provide substantial possibilities for student learning outside of the classroom, such as the co-curricular activities (CCA) program, the camps and excursions program, Sports and Arts.
Unique Learning Culture
GIS thinks that the community can develop and learn together. By offering a world-class learning environment, GIS seeks to continuously develop each student’s full potential. They do this through providing meaningful learning for their kids, fostering strong partnerships with families and the broader community, and investing in the ongoing professional development of their world-class teachers via a thorough professional learning program.
Diverse and Inclusive
Although the GIS community strives towards the following qualities: happiness, confidence, prospering, and readiness for the future Their students, ranging in age from three to eighteen, come from over sixty-five different countries, each with their own talents and interests, and everyone on their own unique learning path, accumulating knowledge and skills and gaining experiences in order to be future-ready.
Well-being
GIS believes it is essential to provide an atmosphere in which everyone may grow and reach their full potential.
The wellness and support of their students is their first concern and, as such, is one of the six fundamental principles that guide all they do at GIS. Social and emotional learning is essential for students to build good identities, a feeling of belonging, and autonomy. To accomplish this, students must acquire and apply the knowledge, attitudes, and abilities necessary to comprehend and manage their own emotions, establish and attain positive personal and collective goals, feel and demonstrate empathy and respect for others, maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
Prestigious
Since its founding in 1951 as one of the earliest British international schools in Malaysia, Garden International School has seen significant development. GIS has relocated from its original home in Kuala Lumpur’s Lake Gardens to Kuala Lumpur’s Mont Kiara and Desa Sri Hartamas. GIS is among the biggest international schools in Malaysia, with up to 2,000 students enrolled.
Garden Curriculum
Early Years Foundation Stage
The Early Years program is where we set the groundwork for each child’s success. Their approach is straightforward: they know your child so that they can accommodate their particular learning requirements at every stage.
Primary School
GIS recognizes that increasing educational outcomes is the most significant way they can positively affect their children’ futures, and that by developing students to be reflective, lifelong learners, they will gain the skills needed to be successful in an unknown future. Hence, they seek to develop a curriculum that is ‘future proof’. This entails preparing our children for a fast changing world by delivering a holistic and personalized curriculum that instills a global perspective in them.
Secondary School
They provide a tough curriculum with a British base and an international perspective. In Secondary, they blend exceptional pastoral care with curricular excellence to ensure that all students get academic care that enhances their wellness and resilience, allowing them to accomplish their best. They understand that when children feel safe and comfortable in their learning environment, they perform better.