• Early Cognition and Literacy
• Childcare, Social and Moral Development
• Artistic and Musical Development
• Emerging Numeracy.

Learning Area: Early Cognition and Literacy
This learning area focuses on language, literacy and basic concepts - the major aspects of a child’s development process. Language and literacy focuses on language skills development for communicating and learning.

The programme’s major components include listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Both English and Native Languages are studied, as well as basic concepts of science and social studies.

Learning Area: Childcare, Social, Personal and Moral Development
This learning area focuses on a child’s physical development, health care and nutrition. Major strands in the area include: physical development, nutrition, health, social, personal and moral development.

Learning Area: Music Movement and Artistic Development
This learning area emphasizes the enhancement of children’s creative abilities including music, movement and art. Children explore and express their thoughts and feelings through art, music, drama and movement. The music, movement and artistic development includes singing, theater, drama, puppet, poetry, story telling, dance, painting and other art initiatives. Children experiment with familiar materials and tools to express their ideas and experiences.

Learning Area: Emerging Numeracy
The Emerging Numeracy learning area introduces children to the numerical concepts, including working with numbers, size difference and properties (more/less, longer/shorter, thick/thin, inside/outside, on/below) geometric shapes and counting. Major curriculum strands revolve around the following concepts; numbers and number operations, data handling, pattern and algebra and shape and space.

Junior-Secondary Section Learning Areas:

• English Language Development
• Native Languages Development
• Logical/Mathematical Development
• Development of the Knowledge of the World (includes the learning area programmes for Science and Social Sciences)
• Aesthetic Development through Arts
• PrISM (Personal, Intellectual, Social and Moral Development).

Learning Area: English
English language development comprises Language and Literature. This learning area has “Instructional” and “Extended“ modes. The instructional programme focuses on language and literature and is offered as a day-to-day teaching and learning process in school. The Extended programme addresses language proficiency and caters to students’ based on existing English teaching and learning practices.

The extended programme covers “Speaking proficiency” (Class III - X); “Reading Initiative” (Class III - VIII); “Research Project” (Class IX - X) and “Creative Writing” (Class III - X).

Learning Area : Native Languages
Native languages play a part in maintaining regional identities, culture and contribute to national solidarity. Although Urdu is the primary focus, importance is placed on regional languages to develop a better understanding of different linguistic and ethnic groups promoting unity among students. The Native Languages area emphasizes different languages especially Urdu, Sindhi and other regional languages.

Learning Area: Mathematics
This learning area is designed to encourage learners to become mathematically literate by thinking, reasoning, communicating mathematically and appreciating the value of mathematics by applying this knowledge flexibly and confidently to solve real life problems. Major strands in this learning area include; Number and operations, Patterns and Algebra, Space and Shapes and Data Handling. Besides the formal curriculum, students are exposed to mental mathematics, puzzles and problem solving tasks to accelerate their learning.

Learning Area: Science
Beyond developing foundational knowledge, the Science learning area encourages students to explore, pursue new knowledge and develop an intelligent and responsible approach to science and technology.

In line with the National Curriculum’s conceptual framework, the Science area develops the four key learning skills - cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual development.

The science programme for Junior Secondary Class reflects the needs of the students by encouraging them to develop a spirit of inquiry, process skills and the practice of scientific methods. The Junior Secondary Science programme is delivered in two major components:

Formal Instruction Programme
The Programme comprises the skills and attitude required for understanding science concepts. Approximately 80 percent of allotted time is spent on core topics focusing on intellectual competence, critical consciousness and high moral values. At each level, a correlation of topics, various resources and process skills have been introduced.

Extended Programme
To achieve the goal of teaching and learning science in junior secondary section, learners are involved in the extended programme of “Inquiring Minds,” which gives learners an opportunity to promote certain skills as well as develop an attitude for scientific inquiry.

Learning Area: Social Sciences
Education aims to develop an individual’s knowledge, skill and positive attitude so that they become self-confident, capable and committed to setting goals, making informed choices and acting in ways to improve their own lives and their community. The broader focus of the Social Sciences learning area is to equip the student with worldly knowledge. It includes the following subjects; Social Studies, Islamiat, Economics and Commercial Geography.

The programme inquiry-based approach helps students answer questions, solve problems and make decisions using process, communication and participation skills.

The Social Sciences utilises a thematic approach to help students gain a gradual and clear understanding of its varied aspects. The themes are: People, place and environment, Time, continuity and change, Culture, Civic ideals and practices and Production, distribution and conception.

Learning Area: Aesthetic Development through the Arts
This learning area has been established with the aim of providing exposure to the creative and aesthetic world inside and outside each student. Although in its very initial stages of development, the programme incorporates the basic elements of art and offers opportunities to students to explore their hidden potential in the fields of drama, visual arts, music, movement and dance.

Learning Area: PrISM
A student’s personality needs to be fostered in a special way. The PrISM Development Programme is focuses on a child’s Personal (Pr), Intellectual (I), Social (S) and Moral (M) development. These aspects are further developed into intra- and interpersonal development, and moral and social development sub-topics.