International School Brunei
| International School Brunei | |
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| Address | |
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Jalan Dato Haji Ahmad Bandar Seri Begawan, BB1114 Brunei |
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| Coordinates | 4°56′00″N 114°56′15″E / 4.93333°N 114.93750°ECoordinates: 4°56′00″N 114°56′15″E / 4.93333°N 114.93750°E |
| Information | |
| School type | International |
| Motto | Everyone Excels |
| Status | Active |
| Head of school | Steven Paul Geraghty |
| Average class size | 20 |
| Language | English (main) |
| Hours in school day | 7 |
| Website | www |
International School Brunei (ISB) is an international school split over two sites, one located in the Sungai Akar area of Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei and the other located in Kuala Belait in the Belait district. It is the first international school to be set up in Brunei. The current executive principal, as of 2014, is Steven Paul Geraghty. The school has four sections: pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, primary, and secondary.
The school is one of several schools offering the Cambridge IGCSE qualification in Brunei (the national qualification is the Cambridge O Level) and is the earlier of the only two schools in the country to offer the IB Diploma, the other being Jerudong International School.
Datin Glass, a government officer's wife, started a tutorial group for her daughter and one or two friends in 1964 and taught them by means of a correspondence course sent out and marked by the South Australian Correspondence School. The numbers grew quite rapidly and by 1970 the school moved to a site provided by the Brunei Government at 34 Tapak Kuda and was established as a department of the South Australian Correspondence Schools, known locally as the Supervision School. By February 1971 there were 30 Kindergarten pupils and 31 Primary students.
The enrolment continued to grow and by 1974 it had reached 160. In 1976 it was decided that the school should convert to a fully independent private preparatory school, employing trained teachers and the then current principal, Mrs Bennett adopted an education based on the UK primary school principles. The School became a limited company, the International School (B) Bhd on 1 December 1976. For the first time the school had a board of Directors elected from the membership of the company.
The School continued to grow and expand to such an extent that a new site was sourced and acquired in Berakas in 1978, but was unable to move because there were no funds to erect suitable buildings. By 1980 the School had 300 pupils. ISB eventually had to leave Tapak Kuda and move to its current location in Berakas having raised funds through a combination of vigorous fund raising, debentures, bank loans and royal support. The School was officially opened by HRH Princess Masna on 9 March 1986, eight years after securing the lease. Funding for development was a perennial problem and had it not been for considerable support from an anonymous donor through the setting up of a trust fund under chairmanship of Mrs Meggie Leong, development would have been very much slower.
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