A curriculum is an overall plan for learning that is broad, balanced and coherent. It describes the entire learning experience in a school.
(PYP: From principles into practice/Learning community/Glossary)
In a coordinated and aligned curriculum, all teachers have the same long-term “ends” in mind!
The backbone of our curriculum is our Transdisciplinary Programme of Inquiry (POI) It was fully reviewed in 2025 - 26 with the participation of all staff in the PYP section and following IB guidelines.
Each subject area has a learning continuum highlighting the progression and content for each area. Those have been collaboratively developed by the school, taking into account research in the field and best PYP practices.
The work of Ernest Boyer (Boyer 1995) has been seminal to the development of the PYP. Boyer proposed that students explore a set of themes that represents shared human experiences. He referred to these as “core commonalities”. Debate and discussion, representing multiple perspectives, about this idea of human commonalities have led to the selection of six transdisciplinary themes that are considered essential in the context of a programme of international education.