The aim of the program is to help students acquire a holistic understanding of six main themes: 

 

Who we are • 

How we organize ourselves •

How the world works • 

How we express ourselves • 

Where we are in place and time •

Sharing the planet 

This understanding comes about through the interrelatedness of five essential elements: • Knowledge • Action • Attitudes • Skills • Concepts

Teachers and students from the school assess student work; there are no examinations or external moderation of student work by the IB. There are two types of assessment in the PYP: 

• Formative assessment is interwoven with daily learning and helps teachers and students find out what the students already know in order to plan the next stage of learning. 

• Summative assessment happens at the end of the teaching and learning process and gives the students opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned. 

The Primary Years Programme: 

• Provides an opportunity for learners to construct meaning, principally through concept-driven inquiry. 

• Traditional academic subjects are part of the PYP but it emphasizes the interrelatedness of knowledge and skills through a transdisciplinary program of inquiry. 

• The PYP focuses on the heart as well as the mind and addresses social, physical, emotional and cultural needs as well as academic ones. 

The Primary Years Programme promotes: 

• The construction of knowledge 

• The use of inquiry as a pedagogical approach 

• The development of conceptual understanding 

• Student understanding through personal and cultural experiences 

• Valid and varied assessment 

• International mindedness