Primary Years Programme – IB Community Blog

They are helping to bring lasting, sustainable change to a village in need of clean water

This article shares a strategy of planning a unit that helped in creating a fair and equitable process for evaluating student learning.

A PYP teacher in Denmark has created a whole unit on the concept of the growth mindset. She tells IB World about the changes she has seen as a result

Kindness posters encourage compassionate acts throughout the school

One PYP student is spreading the message about the harmful effects of palm oil and doing all she can to raise awareness

An inquiry into the impact of deforestation led to the creation of a company that encourages sustainable living

This article encourages the use of nature in authentic inquiry and promotes the hope that every class can spend time outside.

An IB World School in Thailand brings together local, national and international artists, to enhance creative thinking, agency, and overall engagement

This article encourages inquiry at every step in a PYP classroom.

This article shows how children’s hand-on learning in science activities enable them to understand the world. Children are born with innate senses. They try to understand the world by seeing, touching, hearing, tasting and smelling. Their senses lead them to inquire about life, like scientists. For example, they find some problems to solve, they observe […]

How does a scientific mind look at the world, and how do students learn the thinking behind the doing? Be part of an exciting project to understand what it means for a student to develop scientific inquiry skills throughout their IB education from 3-19 years. We are looking at both how scientific protocols are unpacked […]

Have you thought about joining one of the IB networks or associations? In this article you will learn about how the IB World Schools collaborate through networks in the gulf region.

Leah Magana, Primary Years Programme (PYP) Building Quality Curriculum (BQC) reviewer, shares her experience with the BQC as an active member of the IB Educator Network (IBEN) and IB Workshop leader. Q: Why did you become a PYP BQC, reviewer? I got involved in the service because I thought it was an excellent way for schools […]

In this article you will read how animal tracks of famous Gabon indigenous animals leaded students to QR coded information that—when scanned—revealed information about the animal.

This article is about how to provide students constructive feedback that gives the opportunity to take ownership and emerge as lifelong learners. It also highlights the practice of constructive feedback enabling parents to be more engaged with their child’s learning.

IB teachers tell IB World magazine how they encourage students to lead their learning

This article explains what the workshop approach and the PYP have in common and how both relate to each other.

This article explores one school’s journey to ensure the approaches to learning, an element of the PYP, are planned for in order to strengthen the transdisciplinary nature of their programme.

By Mairianne Walker Today, millions of people woke up, switched on their phones and digested the latest news from around the world. I was one of those people. What I read each day tells me we live in turbulent times. Fortunately, my social media feed is filled with inspiring quotes from people like Nelson Mandela […]

This article explores the notion of learner agency: how ‘kids are the boss’ in our learning environment.

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