As our grade 5 students march closer to achieving another milistone i.e graduating from the Primary Years Programme to move on to the Middle years Programme, they would be required to complate their IB-PYP Exhibiton, a culminating event for all the IB schools wordlwide which takes place in the final grade level of the Primary Years Programme. The PYP Exhibition is a celebration, an event, which brings together all that [ Read More ]
Location:Vienna, Austria Date:17 November 2011 — 19 November 2011 Registration Date:15 April 2011 — 3 November 2011 Workshops:The Learning environment and inquiry. Language:English. This workshop is organized by Vienna International School “in cooperation with the IB” Vienna International School’s workshop registration and contact details: Website: http://www.vis.ac.at/show_content.php?sid=302 Tel: +43 1 2035595-311 Fax: +43 1 2030366 Email: kdalton@vis.ac.at Overall aims/objectives and target audience of workshops in our region Please read these carefully [ Read More ]
Student reporter Aruna Kharod attended John Plommer’s breakout session, entitled Understanding Cultures and Societies: Past and Present Through Art, on the last day of the 2011 IB Conference of the Americas. Here she shares her thoughts on the global community and her own personal experience on the subject. It all started out with a zoomed-in picture of an old stone arch with floral motifs and a crown. When our presenter, [ Read More ]
2012 Conference of the Americas We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2012 IB Conference of the Americas in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, from 12-15 July 2012 is now open! This will be the first Conference of the Americas held in Latin America since the creation of IB Americas in 2009. Register by 31 December 2011 to receive a USD$100 discount off the full conference fee. Please visit [ Read More ]
How can teachers incorporate the IB learner profile and PYP attitudes into their programme of inquiry in meaningful and relevant ways? This is a question we were faced with at the beginning of the year after receiving a large intake of new students into Year 5. New to the PYP, the new students were not familiar with the key elements of the PYP curriculum framework. We had the task of [ Read More ]
