Bourofaye Christian School, Senegal

The school provides a well-rounded education based on the British National Curriculum. All children will have the opportunity to study the core subjects of English, Maths and Science as well as Modern Languages, History, Geography, Religious Education, Information Technology, Craft Design and Technology, Music, Drama, Art, Child Development and Sport. Other courses such as Furniture Making, Horse Riding and Swimming have also been offered as part of the curriculum.

The children’s progress is usually moderated by external examiners in the UK through the IGCSE exams at the age of 16 and internally through SAT exams at the ages of 8, 11, and 14. The SAT exams allow us an objective assessment of how we as a school are doing. With the IGCSE’s, your child receives excellent qualifications moderated by the University of Cambridge UK which are internationally recognised.

In September 1993, a German-speaking branch was opened to serve the growing number of Germanophone families. BCS now has students from a wide variety of linguistic backgrounds and responds to their different cultural and linguistic needs in numerous ways. With the demands of a more international missionary community, we have created mother tongue units in Korean, Portuguese, German, French and Dutch. We seek to deliver key elements of the curriculum in the mother tongue. Lessons may be timetabled into the school day or we may provide a linguistic ‘home base’ for some evening meals, devotions and social activities.

English is the everyday language spoken at BCS by all children and staff.