Primary Years - PYP
IB MYP
Programme (MYP) of the International Baccalaureate (IBO) is a course of study designed to meet the educational needs of students aged 11 to 16 years. This period, is a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development and requires a programme that helps students participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated world.
At Notion, we focus on our students developing fundamental skills of researching, thinking critically and creatively, and communicating effectively. Our students begin to appreciate learning but places new knowledge within contexts enabling a deeper and richer more transferable experience of learning.
The programme consists of eight subject groups integrated through a conceptual approach to teaching that provide a framework for learning within and across the subjects.
At the core of the programme the IB Learner Profile serves as an encouragement to students to learn and develop social responsibility, cooperation, pride, empathy, and a realization of the importance of listening carefully to the opinions of all.
Students are encouraged to question and evaluate information critically, to seek out and explore the interdisciplinary links between subjects, and to develop an awareness of their own place in the world.
Learning how to learn and how to evaluate information critically is as important as learning facts.
At Notion International School Middle School covers the years 6 – 10 or MYP1 – MYP5
Guided by six transdisciplinary themes of global significance, students broaden their learning by developing their conceptual understandings, strengthening their knowledge and skills across, between, and beyond subject areas
Who We Are
Sharing the Planet
How We Express Ourselves
How the World Works
How We Organize Ourselves
Where We Are in Place and Time
The PYP curriculum framework begins with the premise that students are agents of their own learning and partners in the learning process. The PYP focuses on the development of the child as an inquirer, both in school and in the real world. It offers a transformative experience for students, teachers and whole school. PYP is taught through carefully orchestrated inquiry. Learners are presented with the resources, opportunities and the facilities to be able to research and respond by themselves. These very young learners need stimulating, supportive interactions with their peers and teachers and an effective use of curricula. The early years settings of the Primary Years Programme (PYP) provides schools with a thoughtfully designed way to give 3-to-5-year olds exactly that.
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Thinking – Critical, creative, transfer
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Research – Ethical, media and information literacy
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Communication – Listening, speaking, interpreting
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Social – Interpersonal, social and emotional intelligence
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Self-management – Mindfulness, time management, organization
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Play - problem-based learning, collaboration, experimentation, and explicit teaching all
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have a place within well-considered inquiry-based learning experiences. Students can
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explore transdisciplinary themes or subject-specific knowledge to help them become
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critical and creative thinkers, researchers, collaborators and communicators.
The IBPYP at Notion International School
The International Baccalaureate Curriculum PYP is taught through carefully orchestrated inquiry. Learners are presented with the resources, opportunities and the facilities to be able to research and respond themselves, supported by skillful adult interventions, making the learning real and interesting.
Play, problem-based learning, collaboration, experimentation, and explicit teaching all have a place within well-considered inquiry-based learning experiences. Students can explore transdisciplinary themes or subject-specific knowledge to help them become critical and creative thinkers, researchers, collaborators and communicators.
By giving students the freedom to share their learning through a variety of recording and reporting methods, varying from planned ‘student centres’ to project-based inquiries, learners build their skills throughout the inquiry and then showcase their own understanding through the pyp 8 PYP Exhibition.
