COBIS. Council of British International Schools

Managing Director:	Mr Michal Bocan
Head of Primary:	Mr John Bagust
Head of Secondary:	Mr Tim Roberts
Director of Admissions:	Mr. Fraser Litster
Other:	The Managing Director is the owner of PBS. It has a Head of Primary and Head of Senior School who lead the school.

Staff:	full time: 26 men, 71 women part time: 1 man, 15 women
Curriculum:	UK (National Curriculum) , IPC, IGCSE, IB
Age range:	3 years - 18 years
Exams:	SATs, Checkpoints, IGCSE, IB Diploma, International Primary Curriculum Assessments
Enrolment:	800 students 51% boys, 49% girls
Nationalities:	60
Boarding:	none

Registration fee:	7,500 Czk
Annual fees:	140,000 CzK - 400,000 Czk
Other fees:	Transport optional

Description

The Prague British School is the new name for the British International School, Prague. The school was founded in 1992 to serve both the Czech and international communities in Prague. The school opened as Prague British School in September 2007.

PBS is an independent English language, multinational day school, providing a British education for children aged between 3 years and 18 years.



Pupils in the Primary School follow the English National Curriculum for Literacy and Numeracy and the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) for all other subjects. Pupils from Year 7 to Year 9 follow the National Curriculum for England. Pupils in Years 10 and 11 follow the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), followed by the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma in years 12 and 13.

Classes throughout the school are small which allows for carefully planned individual programmes of study where needed. All instruction is in English with extensive support for children for whom English is not a first language. We pride ourselves in our high academic standards as proven by our results. Having introduced the IGCSE programme in 1996 and the IB two years later, our students constantly achieve results well above the UK average and in line with independent UK schools. Students in the primary school take the UK National Curriculum Standard Assessment Tests (SATs) and results consistently exceed the UK national guidelines.

All teaching staff are highly qualified and experienced graduate teachers, with relevant experience of the National Curriculum, IGCSE and IB programmes. All the language teachers are specialist native speakers.

The Prague British School has two sites:

Vlastina (Prague 6 - north west Prague) Age 3–11 years

Kamýk (Prague 4 - south east Prague) Age 3 – 18 years