We take great care to implement the Primary Years Programme exactly as it was designed to be: student-centered, empowering; inquiry-based; conceptual; transdisciplinary; relevant to learners’ lives; and reflective of best practices from international research.
Primary Years
What makes a PYP education great?
- Provides student agency
- Offers new languages
- Sparks curiosity and scientific inquiry
- Encourages artistic expression
- Teaches literacy and numeracy
- Builds confidence and self-motivation
- Prioritizes relationships and community learning
- Promotes health and fitness
- Gives constructive feedback that is acted upon
- Provides opportunities for service learning
- Develops self-regulated learners with initiative and responsibility
- Prepares students for a rapidly changing world
- Makes lessons engaging, relevant, challenging and significant
- Nurtures the IB Learner Profile attributes, to build tomorrow’s leaders
- Strengthens knowledge and skills across, between and beyond subject areas
