Why choose the IBpyp?
ACS Egham is proud to offer the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP) to all students aged 4-11.
The IBPYP is an exploratory and free-thinking curriculum, that challenges students of all abilities to develop their skills, interests, and ask questions. It nurtures and develops our students as caring, active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.
Benefits of the IBPYP
Play-based learning
Our Early Childhood programme focuses on purposeful play, active learning, creativity, and critical thinking.
We encourage children to actively explore the world, developing individual and shared enquiries, and creating a dynamic, joyful community of young learners.
Enquiry-led learning
Our teachers help move the learner to a new and deeper level of understanding.
Children are encouraged to explore, wonder, and question, engaging in experimentation and play with various possibilities. This involves researching, collecting and reporting back, clarifying ideas, reassessing events, testing theories, making predictions, and developing solutions.
International perspectives
The IBPYP at ACS Egham synthesises the best from educational systems around the world, promoting intercultural understanding, global citizenship, and appreciation for diversity.
It aims to develop international sensitivity through key questions derived from the concepts and through the content of the written curriculum.
The variety of backgrounds, cultures, and languages enriches our learning and makes for an interesting and lively environment. Working in the Primary Years Programme has enabled me to grow as an inquiry teacher and puts the children at the centre of everything that we do. We learn together on a beautiful campus where we can take the students’ learning outdoors in our Forest School sites or the fields surrounding the school.
Core subject learning
The IB programme offers a balanced and comprehensive curriculum that sets children up for life with a well-rounded education.
There are six key unit themes that develop and evolve as the students progress through the IBPYP programme:
- Who we are
- Where we are in place and time
- How we express ourselves
- How the world works
- How we organise ourselves
- Sharing the planet
Students learn and play with specialists to explore language and culture, social studies, mathematics, art, science, music, and physical education. Embedded into the curriculum are the key transferable skills that will help prepare students for higher education, including critical thinking, communication, research, self-management, and social skills.
Learning how to learn
Alongside the core subject areas and units, the IB Primary Years Programme (IBPYP) develops a dialogue between the teachers and students about how we learn, and how they can enhance their own learning.
This understanding of how students learn is foundational to our enquiry-based and concept-driven method of learning and teaching.
Children are also encouraged to manage their own learning through collaborative working groups, setting tasks, being mindful of time and note-taking, and ensuring that everyone is included and has a voice.
Why choose an international education?
