Primary - 2017-18 Programme of Inquiry

Over the past couple of months, the primary teachers have been revising the units of inquiry to promote inquiry and action. Check out the new display of these units in the library by the Lego station!  The board was created collaboratively by students, teachers and our maintenance team. Thank you Jenni Redman, Mwamba Mulangala, Matildah Kapila, Johanna Schooley, Jo Bicknell, Smilla and Zhenyi for your beautiful artistic expression.  If you have questions about our PYP programme of inquiry, please see Chye de Ryckel, our PYP coordinator.

The central ideas are organised under six transdisciplinary themes which:

• have global significance—for all students in all cultures
• offer students the opportunity to explore the commonalities of human experience
• are supported by knowledge, concepts and skills from the traditional subject areas but utilize them in ways that transcend the confines of these subjects, thereby contributing to a transdisciplinary model of teaching and learning
• will be revisited throughout the students’ years of schooling, so that the end result is immersion in broad-ranging, in-depth, articulated curriculum content ​contribute to the common ground that unifies the curriculums in all PYP schools. ​

Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry, IBO, 2012.