International Primary Years Programme - IPYP

• Strive to create a safe, caring and nurturing environment conducive to meaningful learning.
• To keep the learner at the centre of all activities related to learning.
• To be mindful about social and emotional wellbeing of the learner.
• To provide learning experiences which have real life connection making the learning process engaging, relevant and current.
• To encourage and guide curiosity towards focussed learning outcomes.
• To move away from traditional discipline specific learning alone to see interconnectedness and the big picture ideas.
• To encourage action by taking learning outside classrooms and to the community.
• To help learners develop an international perspective to become aware of and sensitive to the points of view of people in other parts of the world.
• To develop independent self-regulated learners by emphasising on how to learn rather than just what to learn.

• Language (English and Second Language).
• The Second Language options are Hindi, French or Spanish.
• Literacy (Information and Digital), Numeracy, Science and Social studies.
• The students are also taught skills in Arts (Visual and Performing), Global perspectives and Personal, Social and Physical education.
• Through PSPE lessons and assemblies we emphasise the importance of life skills such as: respect, honesty, kindness and independence.

• Inquiry based conceptual approach to learning
• Emphasis is given on skill progress rather than just score enhancements.
• Collaborative teaching and learning environments
• Transdisciplinary approach to offer an opportunity to look beyond, across and between disciplines.
• To give equal importance to the learning process and the outcome.
• To create a classroom environment dynamic and conducive to questioning, exploring, investigating, communicating and reflecting.

Learners will have summative assessments at the end of each transdisciplinary inquiry unit along with the core subjects. The assessments may be rubric based and will be shared with the learner before the assessments. The students will have 5 to 6 Summative assessments in a year.

A variety of assessment tools and strategies are used. The assessments tools used could be

• Observation based -videos, photographs etc
• Performance based – presentations, models, application based
• Process focussed- reflection activity, portfolios, , journals, models, peer assessments
• Selected responses – Guided questioning, multiple choice etc