Middle school curriculum
Peculiarities of the middle school curriculum in
grades 5-9
Working curriculum of middle school (in grades 5-9) is based on the typical curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is aimed qualitative meeting the National Educational standard of Republic of Kazakhstan and IB/MYP standard. It provides a definite increase in the number of weekly teaching hours in Mathematics, English language, Russian language and Literature, Science and Arts.
English course in grades 5-9 is focused on preparing students for education abroad, and carried out according to the programmes, textbooks and teaching aids «Opportunities», «Round up» publishing house Longman, «English File», «Solutions» publishing house Oxford Press. Teaching is arranged by the level and phase system with dividing class into groups.
| Subject groups | Number of teaching hours per week in grades | |||||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||
| Language and literature | Russian Language | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Russian literature | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Language acquisition | English language | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Kazakh language | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Mathematics | Mathematics | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Individuals and Societies | World history | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| History of Kazakhstan | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Geography | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Science | Biology | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Science: integrated course | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Physics | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Chemistry | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Design | Digital design | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Product design | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Arts | Music | 2 | 2 | |||
| Visual Arts | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Health and Physical Education | Health and Physical Education | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |