NorKam Secondary School is happy to announce that, as of 2023, it is now an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme 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, Individuals and Societies (Social Studies), Language Acquisition: French, or Spanish, Language and Literature (English), Mathematics, Physical and Health Education, Science. Each subject group is assessed according to a universal rubric which is designed to better facilitate the development of a skill set that is applicable for the 21st century.
Students are expected to develop their character by engaging in a minimum 30 hours of thoughtful Service as Action through community service. Students also 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: Bryan Uyeda or Trevor Pendergast