What is MYP?
In MYP students will work towards acquiring the learner qualities outlined in the IB Learner Profile. (The full text of the IB Learner profile is found at www.ibo.org).
Principles of MYP
The MYP is a challenging and interesting course of study. Students are to take responsibility for their learning, to work and cooperate closely with others and to explore new ways of understanding and enquiring into the world around them. The MYP aims to do more than allow students to progress in the different subjects. This is why the programme is founded on three main principles:
1. Holistic Learning
2. Effective Communication
3. Intercultural awareness.
The MYP aims for students as a learner to make connections: between subjects, between people, between how they act and how their actions .affect others and between the school and the wider community. The ultimate aim of the MYP is to help students prepare for life.
Please click here to see the video clip ‘Education for a Better World’ IBMYP.
In order to allow students to explore how what they study is connected to real life, they study subjects through the five Areas of Interaction
| 1. Approaches to Learning (ATL) |
| 2. Community and Service (CS) |
| 3. Environments (ENV) |
| 4. Health and Social Education (HSE) |
| 5. Human Ingenuity (HI) |
We can picture these ideas as an “MYP house”: It is built on a foundation of the three fundamental concepts and the Areas of Interaction which allow you to look at what you are learning from different perspectives, as if we were looking out of different windows. In each of the subjects, teachers will ensure students have the opportunity to acquire solid subject content as the foundation for using knowledge meaningfully.
