moving from ib to english curriculum back home

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HI - I just posted this in the wrong topic! Does anyone have any experience of children moving from an IB school abroad and then returning to the UK and following an English curriculum ? How has this gone? Is it recommended - advised against? ?
Would love to hear thoughts on it as we are looking at IB schools in Singapore with a possibility of moving there looming and my main concern is difficulties the children may have returning to the UK?

Hi - what are the ages of your children?

Someone will be along to offer more help. My experience was with early years. More is expected earlier on in NC/UK system (broadly speaking). My Y1 & Y2 were behind in NC system BUT this does even out later on.

DD has done this. In Bangkok she followed the UK system, we moved to Switzerland and she went into IB. She was streets ahead of her classmates with reading and maths.
In Antwerp she also did IB, then we moved to England.
She is on an even level with her classmates, but has missed quite a lot of historical stuff. Fire of London springs to mind.
She is 11 now and going to senior school in September.

DS did the PYP programme to aged 7. tbh it didnlt really suit him and his writing, spelling and maths were well behind when he came back to uk at year 3. A relatively short term issue though and he held his own by 10/11. However much depends on the implementation rather than the syllabus itself so you need to look more closely at what goes on in the classroom with regard to teaching the basics. Agree that the curriculum feels a little out of context due to the nature of the clientele - so no History until later on, rather more general themes (Units of Enquiry) such as Transport.

Do you mean for younger or older children? I had one ds do the IB and the other followed and did A levels. The latter were much easier. Well, not each individual subject but much less to cope with overall. It would depend therefore on your dc.

Do you mean for younger or older children? I had one ds do the IB and the other followed and did A levels. The latter were much easier. Well, not each individual subject but much less to cope with overall. It would depend therefore on your dc.

Depends on what age the kids are and depends on how able they are. If the kids are bright'ish I wouldn't worry too much regardless of age. Although better to move them by the beginning of year 9 then they have a year to settle in perpetration for GCSE's and because many schools start gcse's modules during the year ( although I don't know if these types of modules are being phased out??)