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By offering Cambridge Primary, we provide a broad and balanced education for young learners, helping them to thrive throughout their schooling, work and life. With various subjects to choose from, including English, mathematics and science, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to develop creativity, expression and wellbeing in a variety of ways.

Why Cambridge

Find out how we help students around the world become confident, reflective, responsible, innovative and engaged.

Cambridge Pathway

Our Cambridge Pathway helps students discover new abilities and a wider world, and gives them the transferable skills they need for life, so they can achieve at school, university and work. Use this presentation at open days and parents’ evenings.

Cambridge Primary

Cambridge Primary is typically for learners aged 5 to 11 years. It is taken in over 110 countries and over 1300 around the world teach it. Suitable for use at open days and parents’ evenings, this presentation will help schools explain the features of Cambridge Primary to parents.

Art & Design

Computing

Languages

French, Hindi, Japanese, Kokugo

Mathematics

Physical Education

Social Studies

Value Education

Assessment

We offer a range of optional assessments to help you accurately measure students’ potential and progress.

Classroom Support

We offer a range of support to help Cambridge Primary teachers plan and deliver the programme.

Primary Resources

We work with a range of publishers to produce high-quality textbooks and resources to support our core subjects.

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Art & Design

Cambridge Course ID:  0067
Division: Primary 
Subject Areas: Fine Arts
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: Art & Design gives learners a platform to express themselves, sparking imagination, creativity and developing transferable skills. Students explore and push boundaries to become reflective, critical and decisive thinkers. They learn how to articulate personal responses to their experiences.

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Computing

Cambridge Course ID:  0059
Division: Primary
Subject Areas: Computing & Technology
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: Computing curriculum helps learners understand how computers work. This stimulating course gives students the opportunity to look inside a computer to understand the purpose of different components. They will develop coding skills on visual programming languages, such as Scratch, and learn that computers can only perform actions that humans ask them to do.

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English

Cambridge Course ID:  0058
Division: Primary
Subject Areas: English, Language Arts
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description:

Cambridge Primary English encourages a life-long enthusiasm for reading, writing and spoken communication. Learners develop English skills for different purposes and audiences. This curriculum is for learners who have English as a first language, and can be used in any cultural context.

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Languages

Cambridge Course ID:  N/A
Division: Primary 
Subject Areas: Languages
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: 

French The UIA French curriculum provides students with the foundations of how to speak, read, and write in French. Students gain insight into the structure of the language as well as the culture of the France and other French speaking countries.

Hindi The UIA Hindi curriculum provides students with the foundations of how to speak, read, and write in Hindi. Students gain insight into the structure of the language as well as the culture of the India.

Japanese The UIA Japanese curriculum provides students with the foundations of how to speak, read, and write in Japanese. Students gain insight into the structure of the language as well as the culture of the Japan

Kokugo The UIA Kokugo curriculum provides native Japanese level instruction to its learners. Students will develop Japanese reading and writing skills for a variety of purposes and audiences.

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Mathematics

Cambridge Course ID:  0096
Division: Primary 
Subject Areas: Mathematics
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: Maths helps us to think analytically and have better reasoning abilities. Our Primary and Lower Secondary mathematics curriculum encourages life-long enthusiasm for analytical and rational thinking.

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Music

Cambridge Course ID:  0068
Division: Primary
Subject Areas: Fine Arts
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: Music fosters creativity and builds confidence. It helps learners to express themselves and shows them the importance of communication as they learn to connect with other musicians and with audiences.

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Physical Education (PE)

Cambridge Course ID:  0069
Division: Primary 
Subject Areas: Physical Education, Health & Fitness, Well-being
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: Physical education is a vital part of a balanced school curriculum. Regular exercise improves physical and mental health and there is growing evidence that it improves academic performance across the curriculum. Establishing good patterns of exercise in primary and lower secondary school provides learners with the foundation for an active and healthy lifestyle.

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Science

Cambridge Course ID:  0097
Division: Primary
Subject Areas: Science
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: Our exciting new primary science curriculum helps learners develop a life-long curiosity about the natural world and enables them to seek scientific explanations to the phenomena around them.

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Social Studies

Cambridge Course ID:  N/A
Division: Primary
Subject Areas: Humanities/Social Studies
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: The UIA social studies curriculum helps learners make connections to the past and understand how societies live and function as well as what makes them unique and what they have in common with one another.

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Value Education

Cambridge Course ID:  Wellness 0034
Division: Primary
Subject Areas: Special Subject Area, Health & Fitness, Well-being
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: Cambridge Primary Wellbeing exemplifies a holistic approach to wellbeing underpinned by research. Learners are encouraged to be active participants in the development of their own and others’ wellbeing. They will reflect on and understand themselves, fostering positive relationships with others, and being safe and active participants in the world.

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ESL

Cambridge Course ID: 0057
Division: Primary
Subject Areas: Languages
Grade Level: 1 to 5
Description: This subject is for learners who speak a language other than English at home. It empowers the learners to communicate confidently and effectively. It helps them to develop the skills needed to respond to a range of information, media and texts.

Assessment

Accurately measuring a student’s potential and progress can transform learning and help you make informed decisions about individual learners, their educational needs and where to focus your teaching efforts.

Many of our schools use the Cambridge Primary testing structure to assess learner performance and report progress to students and parents. Our assessments are optional, so you can use them in any combination to suit your context, culture and ethos.

Provide feedback: Classroom assessment

We encourage you to assess some subjects in the classroom through discussion, observation and lesson outputs.

We provide Assessment guidance for subjects to help you give formative feedback on the skills you want learners to develop so that they can reflect on, and improve their performance.

  • Available for Art & Design, Digital Literacy, Music and PE.
  • Feedback on ‘what went well’ and how students can improve further.
  • Help students to reflect on and improve their performance.
  • Use throughout the year.

Assessment guidance is included in your programme fee – there is no extra charge.

Monitor progress: Cambridge Progression Tests

Cambridge Primary Progression Tests are internal assessments that help you to check learners’ knowledge, skills and understanding. Available for our core subjects, English as a first or second language, mathematics and science, progression tests are marked by teachers in your school and available for stages 3, 4, 5 and 6.

  • Provide detailed information about learner performance.
  • Compare strengths and weaknesses of individuals and groups.
  • Come with clear guidance, standards and mark schemes.
  • Updated annually (from 2022 onwards).
  • Download from our secure Cambridge Primary support site.
  • Use any time, ideally at the end of the school year.

Learn more

Check achievement: Cambridge Checkpoint

Cambridge Primary Checkpoint monitors individual and group performance at the end of the primary programme. These external tests are marked by Cambridge International to give you extra confidence in the feedback you receive and share with parents.

  • Available for English as a first or second language, maths, science and Cambridge Global Perspectives.
  • See how learners are performing against an international benchmark, and in comparison to the rest of their class.
  • Easily monitor group and individual performance.
  • Schools receive a diagnostic feedback report and learners receive a Statement of achievement.
  • Two exam series available: May or October.
  • Use at the end of the Cambridge Primary programme (Stage 6).

Learn more

Cambridge Primary classroom support

We offer a range of support to help Cambridge Lower Secondary teachers plan and deliver the programme.

  • Curriculum Frameworks – outline the curriculum structure and how learning is organised
  • Progression grids – demonstrate how learning objectives progress from stage to stage
  • Endorsed resources – high quality resources produced by a range of publishers
  • Mapping documents – provide guidance on how to map your own curriculum to the Cambridge Primary learning objectives
  • Schemes of work – include medium and long term plans with suggested teaching and learning activities as well as key vocabulary and phrases
  • Teacher Guides – provide support in using the curriculum framework and include examples to help you plan and deliver lessons using effective teaching and learning approaches
  • Testing and analysis tools – to assess learner performance, manage learning programmes and report progress to students and parents.

Registered Cambridge Primary schools can access these materials through our secure Cambridge Primary Support site

Training and development

Included in your programme fee, our Guide to Cambridge Primary is for teachers and school leaders who are new to the programme and provides a comprehensive overview.

We offer a number of different training and professional development opportunities for Cambridge Primary teachers according to their experience and needs.

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MEDICAL INFORMATION

  • If your child is sick at school, we will contact you. Please kindly arrange the pick-up within 1
    hour. Sick students are not allowed inside the school bus.
  • If your child has any lice, please do not send him/her to school. If your child has skin issues, please let the nurse knows.
  • Please check your child’s temperature every morning, if your child has some fever (37.5), sore throat, cough or any symptoms, please do not send them to school. 
If you cannot be reached to give your consent to emergency procedures, you hereby give your permission for UIA International school of Tokyo to seek medical treatment for my child in case of injury or illness, which occurs while participating in school-sponsored activities. 
 
This will be used only if we cannot contact you directly at the time of injury or illness.

Daily Schedule

MEDICAL INFORMATION

• If your child is sick at school, we will contact you. Please kindly arrange the pick-up within 1
hour. Sick students are not allowed inside the school bus.
• If your child has any lice, please do not send him/her to school. If your child has skin issues,
please let the nurse knows.
• Please check your child’s temperature every morning, if your child has some fever (37.5), sore throat, cough or any symptoms, please do not send them to school.

If you cannot be reached to give your consent to emergency procedures, you hereby give your permission for UIA International school of Tokyo to seek medical treatment for my child in case of injury or illness, which
occurs while participating in school- sponsored activities. This will be used only if we cannot contact you directly at the time of injury or illness.

SOCIAL MEDIA

I hereby agree to permit UIA International School of Tokyo to take photographs of my child during school activities for the purpose of educating students, promoting the school, or promoting public education. The school may publish photographs of my child and/or samples of work done by my child in a variety of ways. The publications could include, but are not limited to, school newsletters (online and in hard copy), UIA International School of Tokyo’s Internet and Intranet websites, content-sharing websites such as Facebook or YouTube, annual school magazines and local newspapers. Published photographs and work will be viewable by third parties.

We agree to the following:

      1. The school may publish photographs of my child and samples of my child’s work as many times as it needs in the ways mentioned above.

      2. The child’s photograph may be reproduced either in color or in black and white.

      3. The school will not use my child’s photograph or samples of my child’s work for any purpose other than for the education of students or for the general promotion of public education and the school.

Any photographs taken by the school will be kept for no longer than is necessary for the above-mentioned purposes and will be stored and disposed of securely. Whilst every effort will be made to protect the identity of my child, UIA International School of Tokyo cannot guarantee that my child will not be able to be identified from the photograph or work.

BUS INFORMATION

Parents are not allowed inside the school buses.

For Kindergarten students, parents/legal guardians MUST be at the bus stop for pick-up and drop.

If a parent/guardian is not present at the bus stop at the scheduled time for the bus arrival, the student cannot get off the bus. We will wait for 2 minutes and try to contact parents. After that, we will bring the child back to Kiba campus. Parents/Guardians will be notified and are required to visit the Kiba campus to pick up their child. In such a scenario, a penalty will be charged to the parents at the hourly rate of ¥11,000.

For Grade 1 and above, please refer to Section 4 of this form.

The school bus may arrive earlier or later than the scheduled time, depending on traffic conditions. If the bus arrives early, they will wait until the scheduled departure time. If the bus does not arrive at the bus stop within 20 minutes after the scheduled arrival time, please contact 080-1187-9407.

UIA will consider adding a new stop for students from Kindergarten to Grade 2 in the area of the existing routes.

INVOICE INFORMATION

Payment will need to be made within five business days of the invoice will be dispatched. 

Please kindly note that once the payment is made, no refund will be provided.
 
Please note that the two-weeks discount is only applicable for parents enrolling for Week 1 + Week 2 at the time of application. In case a student adds Week 2 after enrolling in Week 1, the two-weeks discount will not be applicable.
 
Please note that the final deadline of payment is :
Week 1 : July 13, 2023 by 3PM
Week 2 : July 18, 2023 by 3 PM
 
Enrollment will be automatically cancelled after those dates if payment has not been made.