It is our pleasure to welcome you to the website of the British School of Tirana. We trust that you find the information helpful.
The main purpose of the British School of Tirana is to ensure that the young people we serve are well prepared for the challenges they face in a rapidly changing world. While preparing young people to thrive through academic success, a central part of their education at the British School of Tirana is to nurture the development of character through an engaging curriculum and supportive programme.
The Mastery-learning model will form the basis of our approach to traditional teaching and how we intend to embed learning skills for our children. This means spending greater time going into depth about a subject as opposed to racing through the things that all children should know. At the British School of Tirana we feel it is our duty to ensure that children have an absolutely solid, concrete understanding of subject knowledge and skills as well as being emotionally resilient for secondary school. We aim to create deeper understanding rather than to accelerate pupils into new content.
In order to develop this, we will aim to teach our children four key learning habits through:
- Embracing Challenge
- Developing Resilience (and learning to cope with setbacks and mistake making)
- Demonstrating and celebrating Effort and a positive attitude towards their work (growth and learning require effort).
- Celebrating Success and Achievement whilst accepting feedback and in identifying ways in which to develop further.
- The skills are built through hands-on lessons and helping our children learn beyond the basic remembering of facts.
We intend to use cross-curricular days in order to give the children the opportunity to develop their learning skills of resilience, effort and receiving feedback through different challenges in different contexts, often drawing upon British Culture. Outdoor activities and learning will help to facilitate this.
We invite you to explore our websites so that you can form a better view of the schooling and the other activities which we provide for Albanian as well as international students.