NorKam Secondary School is happy to announce that, as of 2023, it is now an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program candidate school, and will be offering the MYP to our first cohort, beginning with grade 8 and eventually encompassing grades 8-10. The MYP aims to help students develop their personal understanding, their emerging sense of self and responsibility in their community while challenging them to embrace and understand the connections between traditional subjects and the 21st century world.
The MYP is an inquiry based program; students inquire into issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance through concepts that have relevance within specific disciplines and across subjects. All students in grades eight to ten study the Ministry of BC Curriculum through an MYP lens in 8 curricular areas: Arts, Design, Social Studies, French, English, Mathematics, PE, and Science. Each subject group is assessed according to a universal set of rubrics which are designed to better facilitate the development of a skill set that is applicable for the 21st century.
In grade 10, MYP students are expected to complete the Personal Project on a topic of their choice through which they have the opportunity to demonstrate their growth as learners and global citizens.
For more information, please contact our IB Coordinators: