The International Baccalaureate

In PYP World Schools, all students have the opportunity to learn more than one language from at least the age of 7. Language is involved in all learning and is an essential vehicle for inquiry and the construction of meaning.

The IB PYP Next embraces a transdisciplinary approach, ensuring that learners make connections between, across, and beyond subjects.

The IB PYP Next employs six transdisciplinary themes based on human commonalities; Who we are, Where we are in place and time, How we express ourselves, How the world works, How we organize ourselves, and Sharing the planet. These themes are used around the world, regardless of national boundaries or cultural differences. This allows students to use many lenses and filters to view the same question from different angles. Learning within the IB PYP Next framework encourages learning to be authentic, engaging, relevant, flexible, connected and international.

These programmes feature themes designed to encourage shared responsibility and experiences; to become compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people with their differences, can also be right; and to invite student action based on shared community ideas across the world.