OIS IBDP "at a glance"

Though a small school in student population, OIS offers a big-school range of DP subjects from which students, with the help of parents, teachers, counselors and the IB coordinator, can build diploma programmes that best suit their immediate needs and future plans.

The scope of IB subject choices at OIS enables students to tailor courses of study to fit their personal interests and goals. The OIS DP is academ-ically rigorous and time demanding. An OIS DP student must demonstrate self-discipline and responsibility in pursuit of the IB diploma. The effort, as all OIS IB diploma holders will tell you, is well worth it.

Here are the basic DP course offerings at OIS, subject each year to slight modification. To receive the IB diploma, students must pass one course from each of the six groups listed, 3 at the higher level and 3 at the standard level. IB courses last two years, with the exception of some one-year anticipated courses as noted.

HL: higher level (240 hours) 

SL: standard level (150 hours)

Group 1: Language A1

• English A1, HL and SL 

Group 2: Language A2, B, ab initio

• Japanese A2, HL and SL

• Japanese B, HL and SL

• Spanish B, HL and SL (based on student need and teacher availability)

• Spanish ab initio, SL (based on student need and teacher availability)

Group 3: Individuals and Societies

• History, HL (modern Japanese history)

• History, SL (grade 11, one-year course, anticipated subject)

• ITGS, SL (grade 11, one-year course, anticipated subject)

Group 4: Experimental Sciences

• Biology, HL and SL

• Chemistry, HL and SL

• Physics, HL and SL 

Group 5: Mathematics

• Mathematics, HL

• Mathematics, SL (grade 11, one-year course, anticipated subject)

• Math Studies, SL (grade 11, one-year course, anticipated subject)

Group 6: Arts and Electives

• Visual Arts, HL and SL

• Music, HL and SL

• electives, HL and SL (one other subject from Groups 2 or 4)

For more information, please contact Peter Heimer, IB coordinator

(072-727-5290, pheimer@senri.ed.jp), or visit the IBDP office, room 324 (third floor, next to tennis court), or visit the IBO public website at www.ibo.org.