The Pre-IB Programme

The Pre-IB programme at Panyaden has been carefully designed to provide a strong academic foundation that prepares our students for success in the IB Diploma Programme (IBDP) while also offering a bridge for our students from the IMYC. Our challenging courses engage students through innovative, dynamic, and collaborative pedagogy using a standards-based approach. Students have the opportunity to apply their learning to real-life situations through interdisciplinary, inquiry-based projects. Assessment is differentiated and authentic while still aligned with rigorous IBDP expectations. Students learn the academic skills crucial to the IBDP while also developing self-management and whole-child traits in line with Panyaden’s 12 Wise Habits.

Student life is balanced; we offer a full slate of art classes (Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Film)c team sports, a wide variety of co-curricular activities, and the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, the world’s leading youth achievement programme.

LEARNING IN THE PRE-IB

Units of study in Panyaden’s Pre-IB program are designed as a bridge between the IMYC and the IBDP. They must provide students with the opportunity to expand their ideas of what school can be while at the same time preparing them for the demands that they will meet at the next level. To that end, content knowledge acquired in the Pre-IB is always put into context. Students develop projects and authentic performances which allow them to demonstrate their learning rather than memorise information for solely objective assessment. Some of the types of pedagogy we employ in the Pre-IB classroom include:

• Student jigsaw

• Collaborative note-taking

• Presentations

• Debates

• Model United Nations

• Socratic seminars

• Dramatic scenes

• Project-based learning

Outside the classroom, Pre-IB students put their learning to use in a multitude of ways. Our Pre-CAS programme requires students to track the Creative, Active, and Service activities they pursue and reflect upon how their in-class learning meshes with and supports their lives in the real world. Our Pre-IB students are ready to take on the challenge of the IBDP- they know what they are learning, why they are learning it, and are empowered to participate in its design.