The Junior School starts at the Early education class which children usually join when they are 5 years old. Throughout the Junior School a child’s learning will be individually structured by specialist staff and designed to meet the child’s specific needs. The class teacher will be able to build on the child’s strengths and assist with any weaknesses as the teacher will have a thorough understanding of the child as an individual. This creates the firm foundation which is necessary for children to cope with the progressively more advanced work which begins and continues through the Junior School years and beyond.

While much of the early teaching focuses on developing attentiveness, concentration, control, responsiveness and self-esteem, pupils at the Continental School of Cairo are also given opportunities to:

• Enjoy a classroom environment where they feel both valued and secure.
• Interact and cooperate with others.
• Participate in stimulating learning situations.
• Arising from early personal and social activities and experiences, pupils are given further opportunities to develop communication skills as individuals and as members of a group.

Initial emphasis is placed on oracy in order to build a wide vocabulary, encourage clarity of expression and foster the ability to reason. This is achieved through a variety of activities which lead to reading, writing and number work.

Much of the work in the Junior school is communal so that children learn to share, to give and take, and learn to live and work together amicably and harmoniously. This is achieved through wide ranging activities which include cooking, baking, sewing, painting, collage, cutting, construction and a wide variety of games. All of these activities develop considerable control in the use of fingers and hands which is necessary for writing. Often, some of these activities are incorrectly described by adults and children as "Just Play" but they are in fact purposeful activities. The children are experimenting and finding out what materials will do. This is the beginning of Mathematics and Science. The activities are accompanied by teacher directed discussion, leading on to related work.

During the school day, all children remain under the constant and direct supervision of their teachers and no child is ever left isolated. “Loners” are always encouraged and tempted to participate in group activities as social integration is a key factor in the development of children.

After the child’s many and varied experiences in the earlier years of the Junior School, we continue to lead the young student through the successive stages of social, emotional, physical and academic development towards readiness for higher scholastic levels.