What is the Primary Years Program?
PYP provides schools throughout the world with an international framework that supports the development of rich content area knowledge and lifelong learning. PYP schools ensure that the learning is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant. What adds significance to student learning in the PYP is its commitment to a transdisciplinary model, whereby themes of global significance that transcend the confines of the traditional subject areas frame the learning throughout.
The PYP Programme has five essential elements:
Knowledge—The Program of Inquiry includes six units:
· Who We Are
· Where We are in Place and Time
· How We Express Ourselves
· How We Organize Ourselves
· How the World Works
· Sharing the Planet
Skills—Approaches to Learning and teaching Skills (formally known as The Transdisciplinary skills) are a set of skills that we explicitly teach our students to equip them to be world-class learners, fully confident in a variety of settings. They include:
· thinking skills
· research skills
· communication skills
· self-management skills
· social skills.
Concepts—structured, purposeful inquiry is a powerful vehicle for learning. We use the key concept below to frame our questions for inquiry.
· form
· function
· causation
· change
· responsibility
· connection
· perspective
· reflection
Attitudes—The twelve attitudes of the PYP program are: appreciation, commitment, confidence, cooperation, creativity, curiosity, empathy, enthusiasm, independence, integrity, respect, and tolerance. These attitudes, along with the learner profile, provide common language used by the entire school community as we work toward becoming internationally-minded citizens.
Action—We always honor and celebrate student-initiated action. Students are encouraged and provided opportunities to seek out ways to make their world a better place.
PYP provides schools throughout the world with an international framework that supports the development of rich content area knowledge and lifelong learning. PYP schools ensure that the learning is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant. What adds significance to student learning in the PYP is its commitment to a transdisciplinary model, whereby themes of global significance that transcend the confines of the traditional subject areas frame the learning throughout.
The PYP Programme has five essential elements:
Knowledge—The Program of Inquiry includes six units:
· Who We Are
· Where We are in Place and Time
· How We Express Ourselves
· How We Organize Ourselves
· How the World Works
· Sharing the Planet
Skills—Approaches to Learning and teaching Skills (formally known as The Transdisciplinary skills) are a set of skills that we explicitly teach our students to equip them to be world-class learners, fully confident in a variety of settings. They include:
· thinking skills
· research skills
· communication skills
· self-management skills
· social skills.
Concepts—structured, purposeful inquiry is a powerful vehicle for learning. We use the key concept below to frame our questions for inquiry.
· form
· function
· causation
· change
· responsibility
· connection
· perspective
· reflection
Attitudes—The twelve attitudes of the PYP program are: appreciation, commitment, confidence, cooperation, creativity, curiosity, empathy, enthusiasm, independence, integrity, respect, and tolerance. These attitudes, along with the learner profile, provide common language used by the entire school community as we work toward becoming internationally-minded citizens.
Action—We always honor and celebrate student-initiated action. Students are encouraged and provided opportunities to seek out ways to make their world a better place.
PYP Attitudes: We demonstrate.....
PYP Attributes of the Learner Profile: We Are...
The 6 Transdisciplinary Themes
Key Concepts
Below is an explanation of what the key concepts are and how they are used. When we start a unit we try to have students generate questions about what they want to know about the topic being taught. They used key concepts to make sure their inquires span a wide range of levels.
Approaches to Learning
Successful students are able to do what is required in an appropriate time frame and in a variety of academic settings. The approaches to learning help them accomplish this. The PYP skills include thinking, social, communication, and research and self-management skills.