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IB MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME

Learning in the MYP

The IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) is an international curriculum framework designed to meet the educational requirements of students aged 11-16 years in Grades 6 to 10 (often referred to at OSC as MYP1-5). This holistic program-fosters internationalism, interculturalism, and skills for life-long learning within a framework of interrelated disciplines. As an IB World School, OSC offers the MYP as part of the IB continuum, linking with the Primary Years Programme and the Diploma Programme.
 
The IB MYP is a student-centred programme designed to learn through a constructivist approach. Through inquiry, action, and reflection, students apply their learned skills, knowledge and understanding to make sense of the world outside of the classroom. This process leads to independent learners who can identify and address real-life issues.

Middle Years Programme - Courses

The MYP framework includes 8 subject groups to organise our curriculum. However, the programme encourages students and teachers to connect their learning across different disciplines by using similar contexts or concepts as they explore the subject content.
 

Global Contexts in the MYP

To provide an emphasis on real-life issues, the MYP structures learning through six different Global Contexts. The Global Contexts help students to answer the question “why are we learning this?” and apply their learning beyond the classroom. The six global contexts are as follows:
 


Approaches to Learning (ATL) in the MYP

As students learn, they are encouraged to build a set of transferable skills that allow them to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world facing unseen challenges. This ability to learn how to learn is central in developing independent problem solvers who are curious about the world around them and empowered to take action. These Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills help students to develop a lifelong love of learning.
 
The Approaches to Learning framework below gives an overview of the skills we aim to develop across the MYP years 1 to 5:

Communication Communication skills
Social Collaboration skills
Self management
  • Organisation skills
  • Affective skills
  • Reflection skills
Research
  • Information literacy skills
  • Media literacy skills
Thinking
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Creative thinking skills
  • Transfer skills

BE A GECKO

 

IB MIDDLE YEARS AT A GLANCE


8

Number of consecutive years above the world average project grades


100%

Students involved in weekly service activities
 


6:1

STUDENT TEACHER RATIO
 


12

Languages studied as either mother-tongue or additional languages