Berkley Normal Middle School delivers the New Zealand Curriculum through the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP).
IB programmes aim to develop internationally minded people who, recognising our common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better, more peaceful world.
PYP learners strive to be inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers (courageous), balanced and reflective.
An important part of the PYP is that our learners show their understanding of the ideas delivered through action.
IB programmes aim to develop internationally minded people who, recognising our common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better, more peaceful world.
PYP learners strive to be inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers (courageous), balanced and reflective.
An important part of the PYP is that our learners show their understanding of the ideas delivered through action.
Attitudes
From: IB Learner Profile Booklet, 2008, updated 2009, IBO
Key Concepts
The concepts that are central to the curriculum are presented in the form of key questions. It is these questions, used flexibly by teachers and students when planning an inquiry-based unit, that shape that unit, giving it direction and purpose. It is in this sense that the key questions, and the concepts to which they relate, are said to drive the PYP curriculum.
PYP key concepts and related questions:
Form: What is it like?
Function: How does it work?
Causation: Why is like it is?
Change: How is it changing?
Connection: How is it connected to other things?
Perspective: What are the points of view?
Responsibility: What is our responsibility?
Reflection: How do we know?
From Making the PYP Happen, 2009.