Middle Years Programme (MYP)
Middle Years Programme (MYP) Following the IB Primary Years Programme, students advance to the IB Middle Years Programme. Designed for students aged 11 to 16, the MYP offers a rigorous curriculum that enables students to forge meaningful connections between their academic studies and the real world. This five-year programme comprises eight subject groups, ensuring a thorough and balanced educational experience for young adolescents. The MYP, which covers Grades 6 to 10, promotes personal development, self-awareness, and community responsibility.
MYP teachers organise the curriculum with appropriate attention to:
Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and the world that they have experienced. Using global contexts, MYP students explore human identity, global challenges and what it means to be internationally minded.
Concepts are big ideas relevant to specific disciplines and across subject areas. MYP students use concepts to investigate issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance and examine knowledge holistically.
A unifying thread throughout all MYP subject groups’ approaches to learning provides the foundation for independent learning and encourages applying their knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts. Developing and applying these skills helps students learn effectively.
Action (learning by doing and experiencing) and service have always been shared values of the IB community. Students take action when they apply what they learn in the classroom and beyond.
IB learners strive to be caring members of the community who demonstrate a commitment to service – making a positive difference in the lives of others and the environment. Service as action is an integral part of the programme, especially in the MYP community project.
MYP students are required to learn at least two languages (language of instruction and additional language of choice). Learning to communicate in various ways is fundamental to their development of intercultural understanding and crucial to their identity affirmation.
