The Primary Years Programme's Trandisciplinary Themes
The PYP is a world-renowned curricular framework designed to encourage students to be active learners, well-rounded individuals and engaged world citizens. It targets learners in grades K-5 and aims to create a relevant, engaging, challenging, and significant education environment for ALL children!
What does this mean for us? It’s an opportunity for Saint Bernard’s to apply all that we know that is right for student learning into a common framework throughout the K-5 classrooms. The staff has been busy frame working our written curriculum into the organizing themes of the Primary Years Programme. I’ve often been asked how our curriculum will change and what is the IBO expecting from us? This is a good question and it’s important to note that the PYP does not dictate a curriculum; rather, our curriculum will remain the same. We will take Saint Bernard’s written curriculum and develop it into units of inquiry using organizing themes offered through the PYP.
The transdisciplinary themes of the PYP are:
Who We Are: A unit written in this theme will include exploration into ourselves; our beliefs and values; families, friends, communities, rights & responsibilities and what it means to be human.
Where We Are In Place & Time: Units in this theme include exploration into history, geography, local & global perspectives, discoveries, explorations, migrations of humankind and contributions of individuals and civilizations.
How We Express Ourselves: These units will focus on explorations of the ways in which we discover and express our nature, ideas, feelings, beliefs and values through language and the arts.
How The World Works: This organizing theme is focused on explorations around the physical and material world and of the world of science and technology.
How We Organize Ourselves: Units will explore human systems and communities, the world of work, its nature and value, employment and unemployment and their impact on us and the world around us.
Sharing The Planet: Units written with the theme of sharing the planet will explore the rights and responsibilities we have as we strive to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; of communities and of the relationships within and between them.
You will find the curriculum, written into units of inquiry, posted on the bulletin board on the first floor landing of the grade schoolas well on the web-site!
Click on "Our Program of Inquiry" to view it. |
