What is the IB?

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a    recognized leader in the field of international education. IB programmes encourage students to be reflective, active, and lifelong leaners and critical thinkers. IB students are forever curious, fully engaged citizens, who embrace their own culture and are open and responsive to other cultures and views.

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What is the Middle Years Programme?

The IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) is a programme of student designed to meet the educational requirements of students aged betwen 11 and 16 years (grades 6 through 10).

The MYP offers a curricular framework that allows school-specific---national, state, provincial, or other---and subject-specific curricular requirements to be met, while maintaining the IB mission and philosophy. The MYP requires schools to teach a broad and balanced choice of subjects in every year of the programme, organized into eight subject groups:

  * Language A (English)

  * Language B (Spanish and French)

  * Humanities (social studies)

  * Sciences

  * Mathematics

  * Arts (visual arts, theatre, orchestra, choir, band)

  * Physical Education

  * Technology

What are the fundamental concepts of the MYP?

The MYP is designed to provide students with the values and opportunities that will enable them to develop sound judgment. The fundamental concepts are:

       Holistic learning, intercultural awareness, communication

What are the areas of interaction? 

The areas of interaction provide the MYP with its unique core. Teaching subject areas through these contexts allows teaching and learning to focus on attitudes, values, and skills.

     *  Approaches to Learning

     *  Community and Service

     *   Health and Social Education

     *   Environments

     *   Human Ingenuity

What makes the MYP unique?

MYP students build upon their spirit of discovery to develop an understanding and enjoyment of the process of learning of learning, independently, and in cooperation with others; acquire knowlege, understanding and skills, and prepare for further learning; recognize the extent to which knowledge is interrelated; learn to communicated effectively in a variety of ways; develop a sense of personal and cultural identity and a respect for themselves and for others; and acquire insights into local and global concerns affecting health, the community and the environment, and develop a sense of individual and collective responsibility and citizenship.