ISM is proud of its long-standing programmes of fieldwork, environmental awareness and outdoor pursuits. This tradition has included educational class trips for PYP (Primary Years Programme) students related to their units of inquiry, a residential fieldwork experience for students in the MIddle Years Programme (MYP), and extended research in the field for IB diploma students.
The school owns a Field Study Centre at Pangani on the Indian Ocean coast. The study centre is in a house overlooking the ocean with excellent opportunities for studying the Tanzanian coastline and marine life. The small town of Pangani is itself rich in history with much evidence of the periods of colonial rule by Arabs, Germany and Britain; Pangani was also very much a centre for the slave trade in the region. The study centre is also available for parents and teachers to arrange to use when it is not is use by school groups.
Many student groups within the school also undertake field study in Moshi and Arusha, on Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, and in the many national parks in this region.
Aims and objectives
Residential trips:
involve all students;
give students first-hand experience of our host country of Tanzania;
reflect a cross-curricular approach with balance and progression, or research a particular aspect of a subject;
develop field study skills and the follow up to these;
bond students together as a class and foster inter-campus links;
develop the lifeskills of planning and organising a trip;
are planned and operated under appropriate safety conditions.
The study centre is also available for parents and teachers to arrange to use when it is not is use by school groups.
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