Academics
The Buckswood School curriculum is based on the Georgian
National Curriculum, as well as the unique traditions of the British school
system and European educational innovations.
The teaching approach combines the use of age-appropriate
modern methods, such as VR and AR technologies, the flipped classroom
principle, project-based learning, debates, role-playing / simulation games and
more.
Under the academic program, Buckswoodians study the
following subjects and special courses:
· Georgian
language and literature;
· Mathematics,
logic and chess;
· Innovation
and modern professions program - programming, robotics, 3D modeling and printing,
basics of industrial design;
· Foreign
languages - English, German, French, Russian;
· Enhanced
sports module - general health program, football, volleyball, artistic
gymnastics, basketball and rugby;
· Natural
Sciences - Nature / Natural Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Biology;
· Social
Sciences - Civic Education, History, Our Georgia, Geography, Civil Defense and
Security;
· Art and
music;
· Elective Module: World Literature and Introduction to Economics.
· One of Buckswood's
main innovations is the replacement of the traditional class concept with the
principle of "subject classes", which involves the distribution of
students in the upper grades (grades VII-XII) in all subject areas with
different composition. Students are divided into mathematics and English according
to their academic achievements, in sports – according to the desired type, and
in all other subject groups – based on the house-membership, number and gender
balance. This scheme of variable and mixed groups ensures the active
socialization of students and the development of skills for rapid adaptation to
the new environment, which is one of the most necessary and in-demand
competencies of the 21st century.