Cracow International School follows Cambridge Primary programme, addressed to children between the age of 5 and 11. Cambridge Primary offers international education developing students’ overall skills, as well as enhancing their knowledge in the fields of English, Maths and Science. These subjects are taught fully in English. Cambridge Primary is fit to be implemented in bilingual and English-only schools. It is also compatibile with national curriculums of the countries in which it is implemented.
Cambridge Programmes are divided into Years. Numbers of Years do not correspond to grade numbers, therefore we encourage you to have a look at the table below which presents how Polish grade numbers and Cambridge Years and programmes are correlated.
Age | Grade in Polish system of education |
Cambridge Year | Programme |
3-4 | Kindergarten | – | – |
5-6 | Grade 0 | 1 | Cambridge Primary |
6-7 | 1 | 2 | |
7-8 | 2 | 3 | |
8-9 | 3 | 4 | |
9-10 | 4 | 5 | |
10-11 | 5 | 6 | |
11-12 | 6 | 7 | Cambridge Lower Secondary |
12-13 | 7 | 8 | |
13-14 | 8 | 9 | |
14-15 | Grade 1 | 10 | Cambridge Upper Secondary (IGCSE) |
15-16 | Grade 2 | 11 | |
16-17 | Grade 3 | 12 | Cambridge Advanced (As & A levels) |
17-18 | Grade 4 | 13 |