Curriculam

The Primary Years Programme offers a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning. It provides a complete curriculum model which incorporates guidelines on what students should learn, as well as guidelines teaching methodologies and assessment strategies. This model is expressed through three interrelated questions shown in this diagram.

The Curriculum Model

At the heart of the Primary Years Programmes Philosophy is a commitment to structured inquiry as the leading vehicle for learning. Six trans disciplinary themes provide the framework for the explanation of knowledge. Teacher and students are guided by these themes as they design curriculum units for exploration and study. Students explore subject areas through these themes. Often in ways that transcend conventional subject boundaries. In the process, they develop an understanding of important concepts, acquire essential skills and knowledge, develop particular attitudes and learn to take socially responsible action.

• PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME
• UNIQUE
• CHARACTERISTICS
• MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME
• HOLISTIC LEARNING

The middle Years Programme (MYP) offers an approach to teaching and learning that embraces yet transcends the focus on traditional school subjects. While insisting upon thorough study of the various disciplines, the MYP accentuates the interrelatedness of them and so advances a holistic view of learning. This perspective asks the student to consider issues and problems in their widest scope and to realize that good solutions often draw upon insights one has acquired from many sources. This means helping students recognize relationships between school subjects and the world outside, and learn to combine relevant knowledge, experience and critical thinking to solve authentic problems.

Areas of interaction

Five broad areas known as the areas of interaction give the MYP curriculum its distinctive core and reflect the programme's focus on students intellectual and social development. These are not academic subject like the specific disciplines but rather are common perspectives embedded within and visible across academic subjects. They provide a framework of learning, allowing connections among the subjects themselves.
The middle Years Programme (MYP) offers an approach to teaching and learning that embraces yet transcends the focus on traditional school subjects. While insisting upon thorough study of the various disciplines, the MYP accentuates the interrelatedness of them and so advances a holistic view of learning. This perspective asks the student to consider issues and problems in their widest scope and to realize that good solutions often draw upon insights one has acquired from many sources. This means helping students recognize relationships between school subjects and the world outside, and learn to combine relevant knowledge, experience and critical thinking to solve authentic problems.