Primary Years Programme (PYP)
The PYP Mission Statement and Learner Profile
When looking back through the articles written this year I noted that two key areas of the IB programme were not mentioned. When I write the final article for 2015, I will create a contents page, so should you be interested, you can go back through all articles and collate the information in order of significance, so as to be able to best understand the Primary Years Programme that forms your child learning journey here at Scotch College. The two areas are the IB Mission Statement and the Learner Profile.
Below, I have shared the Mission Statement and listed the Learner Profile attributes. I will expand on these in the following Thistle article. I also feel it important to note that these two areas are at the heart of the IB programme. It starts with a child's first year of the PYP, through the MYP years and right through to the completion of the Diploma Programme for those students who elect the DP in their final two years of schooling.
IB Mission Statement
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end, the organisation works with schools, governments and international organisations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
IB Learner Profile
The aim of all IB programmes is to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world.
The IB learners strive to be:
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
Mr Warwick Norman
Junior School Dean of Teaching & Learning
