Grade 2 — Grade 5
Elementary
Years Programme
Discovering the world through inquiry, concept-based learning, and critical thinking.
Connecting
Experience to
Knowledge.
The PYP emphasizes the importance of students making connections between their experience and the incremental pieces of new information they encounter. The programme supports the students’ struggles to gain understanding of the world and to learn to function comfortably within it.
To do this, the students must integrate a great deal of information and apply this accumulation of knowledge in a cohesive and effective way. The subject-specific bodies of knowledge, together with the transdisciplinary themes, provide a comprehensive, well-balanced curriculum.
At CCIS the PYP section is governed by the PYP Head and monitored by the Curriculum Coordinator. We deliver a curriculum grounded in constructivism, inquiry, and concept-based learning to develop critical-thinking skills.
The PYP Curriculum Framework
The PYP curriculum framework begins with the premise that students are agents of their own learning and partners in the learning process. It prioritizes people and their relationships to build a strong learning community.
By learning through inquiry and reflecting on their own learning, PYP students develop knowledge, conceptual understandings, skills and the attributes of the IB Learner profile to make a difference in their own lives, their communities, and beyond.