The PYP views the development of these skills as essential for the success of the student:

Throughout their learning students acquire and apply these skills

The key concepts help teachers and students to consider ways of thinking and learning about the world, and act as a provocation to extend and deepen student understanding.

By focusing on these concepts, the students develop higher order thinking skills and better questioning techniques.

Using the strategy of guided inquiry, students explore specific units of study . These transdisciplinary themes are developed around the following universal themes:

These units are carefully planned across the year levels to provide a complete and coherent elementary curriculum. These themes constitute the school’s programme of inquiry.

The PYP seeks to develop positive attitudes to help students reflect on and develop their own set of values, in the context of that which is demonstrated.

Attitudes:

The school focuses on developing a series of attributes in the students that make up the PYP Student Profile:

The aim of Primary years Programme is to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet help to create a better and more peaceful world.