Learning Support

Nursery to Grade 5

The Learning Support Department in the Primary School aims to work with students, teachers, parents, and outside specialists to help children learn within the Primary Years Program (PYP) curriculum framework while taking into account their different learning needs. We support students with mild to moderate learning variances. 

Students are identified for learning support during the admissions process or through our internal referral protocols. The delivery of learning support varies according to the students’ identified level of support in group size, type of support, and frequency.  Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) and reports are developed dependent on the students’ identified level of support. Students are assigned learning support specialists to work with them, and who become the student’s liaison between the homeroom teacher, parents and outside specialists.

Some of our services include, but are not limited to:

• Intensive reading/ writing/ spelling/ phonics skills.

• Basic mathematics skills.

• Fine motor, gross motor, and graphomotor skills.

• Organizational skills and executive function.

• Curriculum-based support (in close collaboration with specialists and teachers).

• Individualized learning experiences that can be linked with home and school.

• Supporting students who have been identified for extension services

Grades 6 - 12

The Secondary School has supplementary learning support services that can be offered to students who are identified as needing extra help in order to succeed academically at the school.

These services are designed to benefit students who are of average academic ability overall, but who have mild weaknesses in one or two specific core skills (typically reading, writing or mathematics). 

Please note that ISP’s learning support services are in high demand and availability is limited. The services are designed to support students with mild weaknesses in certain key skill areas and cannot address more generalized or significant learning difficulties.