IB MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME

The MYP Curriculum:

The MYP helps students develop both subject-specific and interdisciplinary understanding and includes:

  • Approaches to learning, helping students learn how to learn by developing skills for research, critical and creative thinking, communication, collaboration and self-management.
  • Key and related concepts, helping students explore big ideas that matter.
  • Global contexts, helping students understand the relevance and importance of their study for understanding their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet.
  • 8 Subject areas: Language and Literature, Language Acquisition, Individuals and Societies, Sciences, Mathematics, Arts, Physical and Health Education, Design.  
  • Service and Project Based learning.

The MYP requires at least 50 hours of teaching time for each subject group in each year of the programme. In MYP 4 and 5, students have the option to take courses from six of the eight subject groups within certain limits, to provide greater flexibility in meeting local requirements and individual student learning needs.

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Curriculum Overview

English Language and literature

Students encounter a variety of texts from the English literary canon, to modern fiction, works in...

English Language Acquisition

The study of additional languages in the MYP provides students with the opportunity to develop insights...

Individuals and societies

This subject takes a close look at the human condition over time, both from the perspective...

Sciences

Everyday life poses problems, provokes inquiry, and provides areas to investigate. Transferring knowledge and understanding in...

Mathematics

MYP mathematics is tailored to the needs of the students, seeking to motivate them to want...

Arts (Visual Arts, Drama, Music)

Art is a universal human expression that has always mirrored the spirit of society in which...

Physical and health education

Experiences about how the human body works and its physical development are offered through theory and...

Design

The Design course embeds many topics, from nature and sustainability to merchandising and visual communication. Students...

French Language and Literature

French Language and Literature is to encourage and enable students to use language as a vehicle...

French Language Aquisition

The French Language Acquisition Programme develops the ability to communicate effectively across a range of languages...

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