▪ On offer is a comprehensive and stimulating curriculum, commencing from:

A.  The Nursery (also called Pre-School) - 3½ to 5½ years
 

Playing and Learning is Fun

▪  An exciting and fun-filled educational environment

▪  Stimulatingly prepared for entry into the Primary School

▪  Committed and enthusiastic teaching and support staff

▪  Modern equipment, large classrooms and equipped play area

▪  Pre-reading, language, communication skills & recognition of numbers emphasised

▪ Integrated cyclic group teaching

B.  The Primary School - Grade One to Grade Seven

Primary School is much more than work and play

This curriculum is an enriched version of the new Zambia Basic Education Syllabus and includes:

▪  Number Work (Arithmetic)

▪  English Language, Skills in Grammar, Reading, Comprehension and Creative Writing

▪  Science in the Environment

▪  Social Studies (this incorporates basic History & Geography)

▪  Art

▪  Creative Activity Clubs

Specialist teachers take the following:

▪  Information Technology

▪  Arabic

▪  Physical Education

▪ Where available, text books based on the new Zambia Basic Education syllabus are used, supplemented, particularly for English Language and Reading, by books published in the United Kingdom.  Where text-books are not available or suitable, workbooks are produced by the school as substitutes.

▪ Learners visit the Extension Reading Library from where they  are encouraged to take home readers appropriate to their reading age and parents are expected to take part actively in this programme. 

▪ The teachers are encouraged to use the  Multi-Media Centre, where overhead projector facilities, video cassette recorder facilities, LCD projector and CD ROM facilities are available.  Teachers are also exposed to  innovative teaching methodologies through workshops for the purpose of  making lessons more interesting.

▪ Re-enforcement of class work is given in the form of workbook exercises and homework sheets  which learners compile in file form. 

▪ The learners in Grade 7 have an enriched syllabus in English, Mathematics and Sciences.

 ▪ Assembly is held once a week for the boys and girls separately. 

▪ Monthly evaluation tests are given and a formal examination is held in the last week of each term. Term reports are made  available at the end of term, but interim reports are also given for the upper primary grades, (Grades Five, Six and Seven), in their homework diaries.

▪ Extra-curricular activities in the form of organized games, clubs or remedial lessons are held once a week in the afternoon for those learners not attending the Islamic religious studies at Maderessa.

 ▪ Parents are encouraged to see their child's class teacher/s on any  afternoon, by making prior arrangement, to discuss specific problems of their child’s  overall performance.

C.  The Junior Secondary School - Grades Eight & Nine

Moving away from being spoon-fed

▪ The aim of the curriculum in these two grades is to provide a smooth transition from Grade Seven to the Junior Secondary level and ultimately to the Senior Secondary School.

 ▪ Learners in these grades are prepared for the  internal "Check Point Nine" examination which has since replaced the  government Junior Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examination, the latter no longer being an entry qualification into Grade Ten at LICEF. The  "Check Point Nine" examination is held at the end of Grade Nine. 

▪ All the learners in these years study the following subjects:

▪  English Language

▪  Mathematics

▪  Environmental Science

▪  Civics

▪  History

▪  Geography

▪  Book-keeping

▪  Arabic (non-Muslims are offered Office Practice or do supervised prep)

▪  Islamiyaat (non-Muslims are offered Art or do supervised prep)

▪  Physical Education

▪ Information Technology

D. The Senior Secondary School - Grades Ten & Eleven/TWELVE

Preparing to leave school

▪ Learners in these grades are groomed in two or three years, (depending on the learner's ability, especially the boys), for the Cambridge International Examinations (Ordinary Level), which is offered in the October/November sitting and is a stepping stone either for tertiary education or is a pre-requisite for A-levels.  Subjects from which a choice is offered, are:

▪  English Language

▪ English Literature

▪  Mathematics

▪  Physics

▪ Chemistry

▪  Physical Science

▪ Biology

▪  Principles of Accounts

▪  Commerce

▪  Information Technology

▪  History

▪  Geography

▪  Islamiyaat (non-Muslims are offered suitable alternatives or do supervised prep)

▪ Arabic (non-Muslims are offered suitable alternatives or do supervised prep)

▪ There are separate science laboratories and libraries for each section, the library being the school’s text book center.

▪ Assembly is held daily for both boys and girls in separate halls for approximately ten minutes.

▪ Sporting activities are held once in a week, with learners choosing from either outdoor or indoor sports, such as football, badminton, netball, squash, table tennis, volleyball, etc.  This is incorporated on the timetable as "club activities".  LICEF is fortunate to have use of the various sporting facilities offered by Metropolitan Sports Club with whom the school has a memorandum of understanding.

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