Academic Departments

We strive for excellence in the Science programmes at Haileybury Astana. We believe in positive reinforcement and rewards for good work. We hope that pupils are inspired and enjoy our courses, and this will drive their ambitions to continue their further education in Science.  At Haileybury Astana we see Science first and foremost as a practical subject. This means that we endeavour to include in our courses the skills pupils need to successfully design, carry out and evaluate practical experiences in science.

An educated person needs information as well as the skills to understand modern science and to see the applications in their everyday lives. Education is not just the acquisition of facts. It should also give pupils the skills to understand modern day life and the tools to acquire and understand information in this ever expanding and global subject.

The English Department at Haileybury Astana aims to foster pupils' enthusiasm for English literature and language learning, drawing on a range of texts from a variety of ages, sources and cultures. The department will be committed to promoting life-long learning through developing pupils' potential as inquiring, risk-taking and internationally-minded individuals.  Pupils learn though an engaging range of speaking and listening, reading and writing inquiry-based activities and exposure to a wide range of English texts, including fiction and non-fiction, poetry, print media and moving image.

Pupils will be encouraged to be proactive in their learning and develop an appreciation of a range of both non-fiction and fiction writing for children; express preferences and use refined strategies to improve their reading skills. Near native speakers will be encouraged to either use monolingual dictionaries or use other strategies for improving their vocabulary.

The Kazakh Department makes use of curricula and textbooks recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Likewise, The Kazakh Department Staff develops additional materials and teaching aids for the purpose to diversify the teaching and learning process to improve the mastering of the Kazakh language of pupils.  A wide range of motivational teaching activities and aids are used during the lessons. Taking into consideration the varying levels of ability as pupils join us pupils, differentiated groups are formed due to the pupils’ level of grammatical and lexical stage of knowledge.

In teaching Kazakh, it is always important to relate the language taught with history, literature and geography too. Hence, some elements of literature, history and geography are used in teaching the language. Pupils have the opportunity to reinforce more about Kazakhstan, its history, geography, economics and culture and its traditions and customs.

Russian at Haileybury Astana is one of the three languages in Years 1-6. As the school is new, pupils come from different schools (with Russian and Kazakh language teaching).  At Haileybury Astana the differentiated groups are now formed according to the level of grammatical knowledge, previously studied in local schools.

We operate by a modified curriculum programme currently used in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In lessons of Russian as a native language the textbooks and the materials recommended by the Ministry of Education of Republic Kazakhstan are used. For lessons of Russian as a foreign language textbooks and associated materials are used, they are published in Russia where the methodical base for teaching Russian as a foreign language is produced.