Primary Years Program
The IB Primary Years Programme (PYP), offered to children aged 3-12, nurtures and develops young students as caring, active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.
Through its inquiry-led, transdisciplinary framework, the PYP challenges students to think for themselves and take responsibility for their learning as they explore local and global issues and opportunities in real-life contexts.
The PYP is a transformative experience for students, teachers, and whole school communities. PYP students learn how to take control of their learning, teachers collaborate to deepen student learning and increase their confidence and self-motivation, and the whole school community, including parents, are viewed as partners in learning and actively contribute to a holistic educational experience.
BHA Program of Inquiry
The Program of Inquiry outlines all of the units of inquiry taught across all grade levels, from Junior Kindergarten Prep (JKP) to Grade 5. Our transdisciplinary programme of inquiry offers students a broad, conceptual, and connected learning experience with a balance of subject-specific knowledge, conceptual understandings and skills, and opportunities to develop the attributes of the IB Learner Profile and take action. Six transdisciplinary themes form the structure of the programme of inquiry. The themes capture human commonalities that are significant and relevant across cultures, geographic regions and student learning stages. The units of inquiry are collaboratively planned, developed, and continually modified based on reflection with students.
The PYP Curriculum Framework
The PYP curriculum framework begins with the premise that students are agents of their own learning and partners in the learning process. It prioritizes people and their relationships to build a strong learning community.
PYP students use their initiative to take responsibility and ownership of their learning. By learning through inquiry and reflecting on their own learning, PYP students develop knowledge, conceptual understandings, skills, and the attributes of the IB Learner Profile to make a difference in their own lives, their communities, and beyond.
The framework emphasizes the central principle of agency, which underpins the three pillars of school life:
The Learner
Learning and Teaching
The Learning Community
Embedded in the framework is the recognition of the importance of fostering an individual's self-efficacy. Students with a strong sense of self-efficacy are active in their own learning and take action in their learning community.
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The PYP curriculum framework begins with the premise that PYP students are agents of their own learning and partners in the learning process. The PYP curriculum recognizes learners’ innate potential to inquire, question, wonder, and theorize about themselves, others, and the world around them.
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The PYP ensures that learning is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant. A transdisciplinary and conceptual inquiry approach encapsulates these aspects of learning, underpinned by authentic integrated assessment.
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The IB learning community views the world as the broadest context for learning, where everyone involved in the life of the school is recognized: students and their families, all school staff members, other important adults in the students’ lives and the community at large.
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