IB Primary Years Programme

The International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (PYP) is designed to ensure that learning is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant. The transdisciplinary nature of the programme offers students a broad, balanced, conceptual learning experience, and helps them to understand the relevance between, across and beyond subjects, and to connect their learning to the real world.
“We believe that early childhood is a unique time of life, to be valued and enjoyed in its own right.”

An inquiry approach is fundamental to the PYP and recognises students as being actively involved in their own learning. Inquiry provides an authentic way for students to relate to, explore and understand the world around them.

Concept-based learning is central to the PYP philosophy, allowing students to integrate new knowledge with their existing knowledge and apply these understandings in a variety of new contexts. It helps learners to recognise patterns and see the connections between subject areas.

As parents know, children are active and competent learners. The relationships and experiences during the early years has a great influence on how their brain grows, that’s why your child’s early learning is our priority. We focus on expanding your child’s knowledge and skills and providing for their interests.

To ensure that children acquire a broad base of knowledge, the Units of Inquiry are developed under the following ‘organising themes’ and students participate in four to six ‘Units of Inquiry‘ per year.

      • Who We Are
      • Where We Are in Place and Time
      • How the World Works
      • How We Organise Ourselves
      • How We Express Ourselves
      • Sharing the Planet

      Mission Statement from the IB

      The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.