Learning and teaching

The Primary Years Program (PYP) ensures that learning is engaging, relevant, challenging, and significant. A transdisciplinary and conceptual inquiry approach encapsulates these aspects of learning, underpinned by authentic integrated assessment.

The PYP is a transformative learning and teaching experience and represents a commitment to student learning in an authentic and transdisciplinary context.

Trans-disciplinarity Transcends Subjects

Transdisciplinary learning in the PYP conveys learning that has relevance between, and beyond subjects and transcends borders connecting to what is real in the world.

PYP students learn to appreciate knowledge, conceptual understandings, skills and personal attributes as a connected whole. They can reflect on the significance of their learning to take meaningful action in their community and beyond.

Through this process of learning in the PYP, students become competent learners, self-driven to have the cognitive, affective and social tools to engage in lifelong learning.

Concept Driven Inquiry

A conceptual inquiry approach is a powerful vehicle for learning that values ​​concepts and promotes meaning and understanding. It challenges students to engage critically and creatively with significant ideas beyond the surface level of knowing. PYP teachers use powerful, broad and abstract concepts as a lens to organize learning within units of inquiry and subject-specific learning.