Mother Tongue Program

Home Language at Rivers International School

At Rivers International School the Home Language Programme is a key activity, which keeps the International students connected with their heritage, language and culture and thus celebrating each individual student’s identity in a global setting.

This is how it works

All students whose Language A is neither English nor Dutch, take Home Language as a compulsory school-managed programme . This is because students are required to maintain and develop literacy and language in their own mother tongue. The classes are scheduled in the timetable.

Any student who has English or/and Dutch as their language A, who wishes to maintain and develop their own  Mother Tongue language may take Home Language classes.

Students create their own Aims and Objectives for each semester. For example, a student may wish to master some challenging grammar, achieve reading a particular novel and completing some given exercises from a generic workbook.

At the beginning of each session the student keeps a record of their Objective tasks and at the end of each session the student updates their record.

Where possible we incorporate CAS and Service as Action to Home Language by linking a student from Home Language with a DP student or MYP5 Service as Action student of the same language who can then coach the Home Language student.