LEARNING SUPPORT
At ISD, we guide and encourage our students to meet their potential, while acknowledging and addressing their learning differences. We offer targeted support and teach appropriate strategies to transfer learning from various classroom settings. We regularly confer with students, parents, subject teachers, and any other professionals involved in a student’s development to design the best possible independent educational plan with long-term goals and short-term objectives.
When collaborating with subject teachers, we jointly determine a student’s gaps and learning skills. We also address assignments and questions about the student’s present levels of performance.
To gain a realistic understanding of their behaviours, we help our students use their learner profile to identify areas of strength and areas with needs for further development. This guides the students in understanding how their efforts and use of time have a direct impact on their learning. Students are then introduced and encouraged to put into practice diverse strategies from the following areas: memory, organisation and time management, work habits, study habits, health and well-being, literacy and numeracy skills.
In addition, we employ a referral process that is initiated by a student’s year head and developed in conjunction with the parents. This entails creating and sharing a full psychological educational assessment which states the learning needs of the student. The assessment also makes recommendations for specific accommodations and/or modifications.
An individualised education plan (IEP), containing learning goals broken down into learning outcomes, is developed for each student.
LIONS WITH NEURODIVERSITY
Lions with Neurodiversity is a parent and community group for those interested in exploring neurodiverse conditions. The majority of the group is made up of parents supporting their own child with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) but is open to anyone. Some other forms of neurodiversity are; Autism Spectrum Conditions, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia, Tourette Syndrome, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The group shares resources, engages with guest speakers, and members discuss successes and challenges facing their child and family.
Group meetings are an opportunity to connect with each other and share experiences, to get some input and insight into what we are doing in school to support students that experience some form of neurodiversity, to hear from specialists, and to share resources. We are very fortunate to have a strong relationship with the ADHD Foundation, The Neurodiversity Charity, and over recent years have had various specialists visit us in person and online to observe classes, advise teachers, and share their expertise with our whole community.
Graduate Destinations
Every year, ISD graduates are admitted to many of the top 200 institutions in the QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS, the TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS, and the prestigious UK Russell Group universities.
Graduate Destinations - Class of 2025
ISD Class of 2025 students have received offers to study these subjects/majors.
Subjects in bold indicate majors our graduates have chosen to study.
Accounting & Finance | Acting | Aerospace Engineering | Animal Husbandry |
Animal Science | Applied Physics | Architecture | Artificial Intelligence |
Audio Engineering | Biochemistry | Biological Sciences | Biology |
Biomedical Sciences | Brain Science | Business Administration |
Business Administration & Data and Business Analytics (Dual) | Business Analytics | Business Management | Business Management & Accounting & Finance |
Business Studies | Business & Business Economics | Business, Finance & Economics | Civil Engineering | Commerce | Communication | Computational Business Analytics | Computational Business Analytics & Adminstration (Dual) | Computer Science | Computer Science & Artificial Intelleigence | Data Science |
Ecological & Environmental Sciences with Management | Economics |
Economics & Business Economics | Economics & Finance |
Economics & Management | Economics & Quantum Economics |
Economics & Statistics | Economics, Finance & Data Science |
Economics & Statistics | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Engineering |
European Law School | Food Technology | Global & International Studies |
Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order | Global Justice | Global Law |
Global Liberal Arts | Human Neuroscience | Human Resource Management |
Human Neuroscience | International & EU Law | Interior & Spatial Design | International Business Adminstration | International Business Analytics |
International Business, Finance & Economics |
International Economics & Management | International Liberal Studies |
International Relations & Politics | Justice, Political Philosophy & Law | Law in Society | Liberal Arts & Sciences | Management | Management & Organisational Studies | Management Science | Maastricht Science Programme | Mathematics |
Mechanical Engineering | Medicine | Molecular & Biophysical Life Sciences | Neuroscience | PEARL | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Physical & Mathematical Sciences | Physics | Physiotherapy | Political Science |
Politics & International Relations | Product Design & Technology |
Psychological & Behavioural Science | Psychology | Psychology (Experimental) | Psychology & Technology | Psychology, Politics, Law & Economics |
Real Estate Management | Sociology | Sport Engineering | Sport Management |
Sport Science & Management | Sport Studies | Sport Technology |
Sustainable Built Environments, Energy & Resources | Technical Computer Science | Veterinary Medicine
ISD Class of 2025 students have been admitted to the institutions below.
Names in bold indicate institutions our graduates have chosen to attend.
Australia
University of New South Wales
Canada
Carleton University | Concordia Univeristy |
King's University College at Western University | McMaster University (2) |
Queen's University | University of British Columbia | University of Toronto (4) | Western University (3) | York University
Czechia
Architectural Institute in Prague
France
EM Lyon Business School | NEOMA Business School | Toulouse Business School
Germany
EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht (3) | European University Cyprus (Frankfurt) | FOM Hochschule | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (7) |
Fresenius University of Applied Sciences | Munich Business School (2) | SAE Institute | Universität der Bundeswehr München |
Universitätsmedizin Neumarkt A.m. Campus Hamburg (2)
Italy
Bocconi University
Japan
Keio Univerity | Ritsumeikan University | Sophia University | Waseda University
Spain
CEU Cardenal Herrera University | ESADE Business School (3) | IE University (2) | Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia |
Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Martir
Sweden
Stockholm School of Economics
The Netherlands
Eindhoven University of Technology (2) | Erasmus University Rotterdam (8) |
Fontys University of Applied Sciences | HAN University of Applied Sciences |
Hanze University of Applied Sciences | Leiden University | Maastricht University (11) | Saxion University of Applied Sciences | The Hague University of Applied Sciences |
Tilburg University (3) | University of Amsterdam (9) | University of Groningen (8) | University of Tilburg (4) | University of Twente (2) | Utrecht University (2) |
Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Science | VU Amsterdam (4) |
Wageningen University
United Arab Emirates
Ajman University of Science & Technology | American University in Dubai |
Canadian University of Dubai | Heriot-Watt University Dubai |
Middlesex University Dubai | RAK Medical & Health Sciences University |
University of Wollongong in Dubai (2)
United Kingdom
Brunel University London | Cardiff Metropolitan University | Cardiff University (4) |
City University of London | Durham University (3) | Imperial College London (2) |
King's College London (4) | Kingston University (2) |
London School of Economics & Political Science | London South Bank University | Loughborough University | Northeastern University London |
Nottingham Trent University (3) | Queen Mary University of London (2) |
Ravensbourne University London | Regent's University London |
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | Royal Holloway University of London (2) |
SAE Institute | Solent University | St Mary's University Twickenham |
University College London (4) | University of Bath (4) | University of Birmingham (2) | University of Cambridge | University of Dundee | University of Edinburgh (4) | University of Exeter (2) | University of Glasgow | University of Greenwich |
University of Kent | University of Manchester (3) | University of Oxford (2) |
University of Sheffield | University of Southampton | University of St Andrews (3) | University of Sussex | University of the Arts London | University of Warwick (6) |
University of Westminster (2) | University of York (3)
United States
Amherst College | Boston University (3) | Brown University |
Case Western Reserve University (2) | Clark University (2) | Colorado State University | Michigan State University | Northeastern University (2) | Purdue University | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Rochester Institute of Technology |
Seattle University (Honors) | Suffolk University (Honors) |
University of California Los Angeles | University of California Santa Barbara | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (3) | University of Massachusetts Amherst | University of San Francisco (2) | University of Washington | Wake Forest University |
Washington University in St. Louis | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
