Issyk Kul Secondary School
| Issyk Kul Secondary School | |
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| Location | |
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| Coordinates | 39°50′45″N 69°32′41″E / 39.8457°N 69.5446°E |
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| School type | Elementary, secondary, and high school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | None |
| Established | 1999 |
| Headmaster | E. Tajibayev |
| Language | Kyrgyz and Uzbek |
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Issyk Kul Secondary School (Template:Lang-uz; Template:Lang-ky) is a secondary school in Isfana, Kyrgyzstan.[1] Although the school is called a secondary school, it offers classes for grades 1 through 11. At Issyk Kul Secondary School classes are taught in Kyrgyz and Uzbek.[2] The current building of the school was completed in 1982.
General framework and curriculum
At Issyk Kul Secondary School children are accepted to first grade at the age of 6 or 7, depending on individual development of each child. The eleven-year school term is split into elementary (grades 1-4), middle (grades 5-9) and senior (grades 10-11) classes. Attending a nine-year "basic" (elementary and middle) program is compulsory. Grades 10-11 are optional. Uzbek students can only study until grade 5. They have to continue their studies at other schools in the town. Kyrgyz students, on the other had, can study in grades 1 through 11.
Like at many other secondary schools in Kyrgyzstan and other CIS countries at Issyk Kul Secondary School children of elementary classes are normally separated from other classes within their own floor of a school building. They are taught, ideally, by a single teacher through all four elementary grades (except for physical training and, if available, foreign languages).
Starting from the fifth grade, each academic subject is taught by a dedicated specialty teacher. The school curriculum for senior students includes subjects like mathematics, informatics, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, arts, music, physical education, history, and astronomy. English is taught as a foreign language starting from grade 5.
Like many other schools in Kyrgyzstan Issyk Kul Secondary School is a double shift school where two streams of students (morning shift and evening shift) share the same facility. The reason for this is that school capacity is insufficient to teach all of the students on a normal morning-to-afternoon schedule.
The school year extends from September 1 to the end of May and is divided into four terms. The school curriculum at Issyk Kul Secondary School is fixed: unlike in some Western countries, schoolchildren or their parents have no choice of choosing which subjects to study. Students are graded on a 5-step scale, ranging in practice from 2 ("unacceptable") to 5 ("excellent"); 1 is a rarely used sign of extreme failure. Teachers regularly subdivide these grades (i.e. 4+, 5-) in daily use, but term and year results are graded strictly 2, 3, 4, or 5.
References
- ^ "General Information about Isfana". Association of Cities of Kyrgyzstan (in Russian). Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ "Information about Issyk Kul Secondary School on the official website of Isfana" (in Russian). Retrieved 23 October 2012.
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