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IB PYP in KIS Classrooms

As KIS implements the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program in all of our classrooms, your child’s academic program incorporates these 5 essential elements:

  1. Concepts: there are 8 fundamental concepts expressed as key questions, to propel the process of inquiry in a KIS classroom. These universal concepts drive the research units—called UNITS OF INQUIRY—but they have relevance within and across all subject areas (transdisciplinary).
    • The 8 fundamental concepts are:
      • Form: What is it like?
      • Function: How does it work?
      • Causation: Why is it like it is?
      • Change: How is it changing?
      • Connection: How is it connected to other things?
      • Perspective: What are the points of view?
      • Reflection: How do we know?
      • Responsibility: What is our responsibility?
  2. Skills: there are 5 sets of transdisciplinary sills acquired in the process of structures inquiry. These are:
    • Thinking
    • Communication
    • Social
    • Research
    • Self-Management
  3. Attitudes: the IB PYP promotes attitudes that we want our KIS students to feel, value, and demonstrate (refer to the list of IB Attitudes above).
  4. Action: Our KIS students are encouraged to reflect, to make informed choices, and to take action that will help their peers, school staff, and the wider community. This is how our students demonstrate a deeper sense of learning, by applying their knowledge to service and positive action.
  5. Knowledge: the IB PYP recognizes that it is inappropriate and challenging to dictate what every child should know in an international environment and community. Rather than provide a fixed syllabus or curriculum, the IB PYP has identified themes, or areas of knowledge, which are used to organize the 6 Units of Inquiry, taught at KIS from early childhood up through grade 6. These Units of Inquiry provide the framework (as opposed to a textbook curriculum) for a wide variety of resources to be explored, in order to accomplish the objectives within each Unity of Inquiry:
    • Who We Are
    • Where We Are in Place and Time
    • How We Express Ourselves
    • How the World Works
    • How We Organize Ourselves
    • Sharing the Planet