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Middle Years Programme

In our school, the MYP aims to develop active learners and internationally minded young people who can empathize with others and pursue lives of purpose and meaning.


The programme empowers students to inquire into a wide range of issues and ideas of significance locally, nationally and globally. The result is young people who are creative, critical and reflective thinkers.


  • build confidence in managing their own learning

  • learn by doing, connecting the classroom to the larger world

  • outperform non-IB students in critical academic skills

  • consistently have greater success in IB Diploma Programme examinations

  • thrive in positive school cultures where they are engaged and motivated to excel

  • develop an understanding of global challenges and a commitment to act as responsible citizens

The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) comprises eight subject groups:


Language acquisition Mathematics
Language and literature Arts
Individuals and societies Physical and health education
Sciences Design

MYP students also complete a long-term project, where they decide what they want to learn about, identify what they already know, discovering what they will need to know to complete the project, and create a proposal or criteria for completing it.

Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and their experience of the world that they have experienced.

Using global contexts, MYP students develop an understanding of their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet through developmentally appropriate explorations of:

identities and relationships scientific and technical innovation
personal and cultural identity fairness and development
orientations in space and globalization and sustainability
time conceptual understanding

The MYP aims to help students develop their personal understanding, their emerging sense of self and responsibility in their community. MYP students use concepts as a vehicle to inquire into issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance and examine knowledge holistically.