British Council and South City International School (SCIS) announced the renewed strategic alliance for English language teaching and learning. Over the years, the partnership has positively impacted working professionals, college students and children across the city helping them improve their English proficiency in a convenient location. 

 The partnership has focused on students of South City International School by providing them easy access to the British Council offering, and put the spotlight on professional development of the SCIS teachers through British Council teacher training modules. The partners have now announced scaling up the programme by expanding the age bracket of learners. British Council’s globally recognised English language programmes for younger students – Summer Camp and Early Years programme – will now be taught at the SCIS.

Barbara Wickham OBE, Director India, British Council, said “We are delighted to extend our partnership with the South City International School. It has been a fruitful association that has helped expand professional opportunities for Kolkata’s youth, and we are glad to scale up the programme to add value to an even broader audience. Through our renewed association and with our new world-class classroom-based programmes we hope to bring back the essence of primary education while also building confidence, creativity, social and communication skills of the young students.”

John Andrew Bagul, Principal Founder, South City International School in Kolkata, said, “As educators we truly understand that learning never stops. At SCIS we are always finding ways to keep at the cutting edge of teaching methodologies, to deliver the best possible learning experience to our students. Our partnership with British Council has yielded phenomenal results over the years, allowing us to improve our quality of teaching and equipping our students with sharp English skills needed to succeed in a globalised economy. We are looking forward to another positive outcome with the new programmes aimed at helping primary level students.”

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The summer camp by the British Council will enable an interactive and engaging classroom learning experience for students, and develop their creativity, curiosity, imagination, and communication skills. It will give them the optimal exposure and confidence in storytelling and narration through art, drama and speech. The 10-hour course will be delivered through 10 between May 23 and June 6. Students will receive a certificate on successful completion of the course. This will be the first face-to-face summer camp in 3 years.
 

Early Years is an innovative and globally recognised programme in partnership with Aardman animation studios to bring Learning Time with Timmy for children, 4 to 6 years of age. The programme focuses on developing language skills along with values like helping each other, everyone is good at something, appreciating art and music thus ensuring holistic development in children. It also teaches students life skills and 21st century skills such as creativity, collaboration and critical thinking that can be used easily in the classroom and also in the real world.