Welcome to Nexus
The NEXUS Centre is our dedicated, specially designed zone for students aged 16 to 18 years enrolled in our IB Diploma Programme (IBDP)*, IB Career-related Programme (IBCP)*, including Engineering and a pioneering course in AI. Housed in a split-level, expansive open-plan learning space, Nexus provides students with an innovative, multi-purpose setting that replicates university features, including tutorial rooms, lecture and seminar spaces with tiered seating, a student café, study areas, silent study pods, common room areas, a library and counsellors’ office, with extended opening hours from 8am - 8pm.
The Nexus programme is a two-year, academically challenging, rigorous and balanced course of education, delivered with innovative methods including flipped and adaptive learning. Our overarching aim in Nexus is to prepare students for the real world in an environment that allows them to be independent thinkers, team players and future fluent.
We do this through the use of learning techniques that encourage creativity and innovation, resilience and lifelong learning for continuous growth. Graduates of Bloom World Academy will be entering a world in which the rate of technological change is fast and furious, and the future of the workplace and choice of lifestyle is multiple. While tomorrow’s career paths remain uncarved, we can prepare students to embrace whatever opportunities await by teaching them skills that go beyond academics or mastering the latest technologies. These include skills in designing, creativity, collaboration, communication, problem-solving, innovation and probably most importantly, independent living skills.
Equipping students for life beyond school: the Life Skills Programme
This is achieved through our comprehensive Life Skills Programme, which has the aim to equip students with essential life skills, including managing finances, health, well-being and safety as well as developing self-motivation and self-discipline. The Life Skills Programme provides practical lessons in decision-making and problem-solving skills that will prepare students to enter the real world. From building their self-awareness, self-esteem and self-confidence and assertiveness to coping with their emotions and stress, learning to resist unhealthy pressures, build interpersonal relationships, friendship formation and find their place in society.
What is the difference between IBDP* and IBCP*?
Both programmes cater for students at post-16 level and provide them with a qualification to enter university. The Diploma Programme, a highly rigorous and academic qualification enhances students’ academic capabilities and capacity to think critically. The Career-related programme provides a vocational pathway which combines some academic study with vocational studies, in our case the BTEC Diploma 3. Both programmes centre around the development of the IB learner attributes and approaches to learning. At the heart of both programmes lies the service learning or creativity, activity service, the community engagement that differentiates the IB to most other curricula and which allows students to become well-rounded, capable and caring citizens of the planet.
The Diploma Programme (DP) *
The Diploma Programme is an academically challenging and rigorous programme which comprises of the study of 6 subjects and the core elements, Creativity, Activity and Service, Theory of Knowledge and Extended Essay. Each element is assessed and contributes to a broad, connected and holistic education. In terms of subjects, students choose 3 Higher Level subjects and 3 Standard Level subjects from *each subject group (*some exceptions may apply). All students in the Diploma Programme engage with Theory of Knowledge, a course designed to enhance critical thinking, Creativity, Activity and Service, a programme to promote personal and community engagement and they complete a 4000-word essay in the format of the Extended Essay. Students are carefully guided by subject specialists and IB trained teachers who monitor progress closely in light of final examinations.
The Career-related Programme (CP)*
The Career-related programme is a qualification which combines academic study with vocational studies. Students choose 2-4 DP subjects (at Higher or Standard Level) and one BTEC subject. In addition, they study professional skills in form of the Personal and Professional Skills course (PPS). They engage in language learning by furthering their knowledge and skills in a language of their choice and they also engage with the community through service learning. Finally, they complete a comprehensive Reflective Project, which explores an ethical dilemma in their chosen career-related study.
Through the flexibility of the programme, students are able to specifically tailor their choices to their individual interests and ambitions in order to create a challenging, enriching vocational experience which allows them to prepare for life beyond school.
University and College Guidance
The students of Bloom World Academy will go on to universities and careers throughout the world and our specialist careers team will work with individuals to create their personal pathway. We will support the students through information, advice and offer guidance to enable them to make informed choices about their onward educational journey.
Students will be guided through the different stages of the further education application processes and provided with all the relevant school documentation to complete this.
This includes Bloom World Academy hosting annual University Fairs, ´What Next´ Careers events with speakers from a variety of industries and many presentations from prestigious universities/colleges from around the world.
We aim to see our first graduation cohort in the spring of 2026 graduating from our school with the most sought-after pre-university qualifications.
* Bloom World Academy is a candidate school* for the Career-related Programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. IB World Schools share a common philosophy- a commitment to high-quality, challenging, international education- that we believe is important for our students. * Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme (DP), or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes visit http://www.ibo.org.
*Bloom World Academy is a candidate school* for the Diploma Programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. IB World Schools share a common philosophy- a commitment to high-quality, challenging, international education- that we believe is important for our students. * Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme (DP), or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes visit http://www.ibo.org.