The Tenby International School, Penang is a school in Penang, Malaysia.
It was started by the Augustine family as Sekolah Sri Inai in the early 1980s as a Malaysian private school. At its peak, it had some 550 students, including a strong contingent from Medan, Indonesia. However, by December 2004, the enrolment dropped to 228 students.
Then, at the behest of some parents, the Tenby Schools Group was invited to revive the School. It re-opened under new management in January 2005 and has since been operating as Tenby Schools, Penang; integrating an international school and a Malaysian private school in one campus.
The emphasis is on a broad curriculum that develops and nurtures talent. Most subjects follow a spiral curriculum, meaning that they keep coming back to similar ideas but that these are reinforced and increase in complexity as students move up through the school. There is a strong emphasis on what students are learning in the classroom, rather than what they are being taught, and students are encouraged to push their own boundaries and develop their own individual learning styles. In this way we hope to equip them with the skills needed to become lifelong learners.
Key Stage 1 and 2 (Nursery - Year 6)
In the new Primary School, the programme is founded on the National Curriculum for England, primarily delivered through the International Primary Curriculum and core subject planning: considering the needs of the individual and the development of the whole child.
The new campus, in the residential area of Tanjung Bungah, provides excellent facilities in a welcoming open setting with bright well-resourced teaching areas and specialist facilities. Tenby International Primary School will be sharing the site with Tenby International Secondary School and the Sri Tenby Secondary School (Malaysian Curriculum) and will be planning linked activities with the Sri Tenby Primary School which remains on its current site on Macalister Road.
Key Stage 3 (Year 7 − 9)
The Cambridge Lower Secondary Programme is a framework for students approximately 11 – 14 years old. The Lower Secondary Programme has been developed to link with the Cambridge International Primary Programme and provides standardised tests to allow careful monitoring of progress.
It builds on the primary stage, and develops students' knowledge and skills in Mathematics, English and Science. Lower Secondary also offers schools a means of tracking student progress through the lower secondary phase, with an integrated package of teaching, learning and assessment materials.
At the end of Lower Secondary, students sit the Cambridge Checkpoint tests which provide detailed feedback on students' strength and weaknesses before they move into the 14 - 16 / IGCSE stage.
Subjects taught are:
English, Malay Language, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Computer, Design Technology, Art and Design, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Physical Education, International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and International Certificate of Education (ICE), Year 10 - 11 [http://www.tenby.edu.my/v2/penang/tis At Tenby International School all students at Key Stage 4 will follow IGCSE courses in English (first or second language), Mathematics, at least one science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics or “Double Award Science”), ICT, at least one language other than English (for Malaysian students Malay is compulsory) and up to five further subjects.