The most important thing to helping children find their strengths and passions is a broad, interesting curriculum, starting at a young age. We begin by guiding our youngest students with specialist lessons in our 15-month-old classrooms, exposing them to a diverse curriculum.
Performing arts are so much more than what is seen on stage. They encourage self-expression and self-awareness, as well the development of empathy, confidence and cultural exploration. Our collaboration with Juilliard, the world-renowned performing arts school, combined with our outstanding dance, drama, and music programmes, inspires our students’ creativity, team-work and resilience.
The Juilliard School is recognised around the world as a leader in the performing arts; our exclusive collaboration with them harnesses their expertise and experience to create an arts programme that both inspires our students and sparks their passion to pursue their talents and interests.
Students are welcomed into our athletic clubs and sports teams. They can take part in both before and after school programs. Our sports teams teach students to play competitively and build their teamwork skills as they compete against other local schools. Even our nursery children can get involved with school sports in encouraging, age-appropriate versions of the sports they’ll play as they get older. Some popular choices for students include soccer, fencing, tae kwon do, basketball, tennis and track.
Athletics
Students have the chance to build on what they learn through our MIT STEAM program by extending their learning in after-school clubs such as STEM Scouts and Curious Creators. They may learn to code and build robots or work in our design lab on research and design projects that bring all the STEAM disciplines together. Our studio arts also offer a range of opportunities to develop their creativity through options like Comic Book Club, which has them writing and illustrating graphic novels, or Project Runway Club, focused on textiles and fashion design.
STEAM
Our Culture & Literacy program develops our students‘ global mindedness and cultural fluency through a variety of culture and literacy-based clubs. Here, we build on the international curriculum they explore in the classrooms throughout the day.
Culture & Literacy
Students keep their minds active through their budding hobbies in our varied special interest clubs, which allow students to do everything from finding their zen through meditation to building their entrepreneurial skills in an enterprise club.
Interests & Life Skills
Our nine school values are embodied by our Goal Squad characters and are used to embed character development and social emotional learning into school life. We celebrate when these values are demonstrated in the learning and personal choices our students make, as they find the best ways to look after their own well-being, while developing mental resilience.
Students are also supported by our school counsellor, alongside other specialists, who can help BISC-LP students to develop resilience, find the right path for the future and deal with any ongoing issues.
While mindfulness is embedded right across our curriculum, your child can also access a wealth of resources on well-being through our exclusive online platform, Global Campus.
Our campus offers an enriching learning environment. Students have the perfect surroundings to grow and learn with the nurturing support of the world’s best teachers.
More about our campus
British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park
814 and 821 W Eastman Street
Chicago
Illinois 60642
United States
OUR SOCIAL PURPOSE
We’re proud of our Chicago heritage at BISC-LP and we support students in positive local efforts throughout their time with us.
Students partner with over 20 local organizations on service projects. These activities empower them to consciously make a positive change in the place they call home.
Your child will use some of the skills picked up in our adaptable curriculum to enhance charity efforts too. Our annual Maker Faire is an example of this as it gives every student the opportunity to develop their design and innovation skills by creating a new product that solves a real-world problem, bringing into practice the abilities they learned in MIT classes. Then, they sell their product to raise money for a related charity.