OUR PROGRAMMES: International Programme

Chiswick House School and St Martin's College offer an International Programme designed to cater for the needs of our international students, in line with the Common European Framework (Council of Europe 2001).

International students who decide not to follow the Maltese course, have the option, against payment, of taking up lessons in another language. Students from Junior 1 up to Form 5 will be given the opportunity of replacing Maltese lessons with either Spanish or English as a Foreign Language (EFL), while Italian lessons (for native speakers) will be offered to students from Junior 1 to Junior 5.

The idea behind EFL lessons is to give international students the best chance of reaching a level which will allow them to participate fully in mainstream English classes. Thus, EFL classes will be followed for as many terms as is deemed necessary by both the students and the school, until the required standard is reached. In particular cases, where a student is seen to have little or no command of the English Language, the school might make the EFL course mandatory.
Depending on their individual levels and their subsequent progress throughout the scholastic year, students may be offered the opportunity to sit for the English Cambridge exams, or the DELE (Spanish Certificate).