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IB Philosophy and Training Objectives
IB philosophy, aims and objectives: "IB is committed to cultivating proactive lifelong learners and well-rounded, socially responsible citizens, through whom a better and more peaceful world can be built." Primary Principal Yang said In her introduction.
Executive Principal Yan agreed, saying that “the greatest thing about IB is that it recognizes the universal needs of humanity and our shared responsibility for protecting the planet."
International Principal Dr. Tim Fryer added: "the IB Learner Profile attributes underpin the IB philosophy and we strive to inculcate in our students these characteristics so they become well rounded individuals and critical thinkers. Through the IB inquiry cycle, students are intrinsically driven by their curiosity to question, take action and then to reflect on their learning. This process leads to deeper understanding."
Curriculum: The integration of the Chinese national curriculum within the IB framework.
"The IB programmes include the PYP in primary, MYP in middle school and the DP in high school. Our school will offer all three, providing 15 years of world-class international education, that is highly regarded in China”. Executive Principal Yan introduced our school's integrated curriculum design:
"In the kindergarten, we use the kindergarten curriculum of Repton School, which is the English Early Years Foundation Stage, integrated with the PYP framework."
"In primary school, we integrate the first five years of the nine-year compulsory curriculum with the PYP and From grades 6-9 in secondary school we integrate the last four years of compulsory education with the MYP.”
"In grade 10, students take the Repton Diploma which is a holistic curriculum that will give them a solid foundation for success in high school and beyond at top-tier universities" Explained Dr. Tim Fryer.
Primary School:the integration of compulsory education curriculum and PYP
Primary Principal Yang also described the integrated curriculum of our school: “The IB approach is integrated with the national curriculum through the POI (Programme of Inquiry) which has six transdisciplinary themes: "who we are", "where we are in space and time”, "how we express ourselves", "how the world works", "how we organize ourselves" and "sharing the planet”
International Principal Dr. Tim Fryer explained that the six topics are explored at each grade level: ”From grade 1 to grade 5 in primary school, students explore these six topics but in an increasingly sophisticated way, where the questions go deeper, so it is a spiral of exploration”.
"When children understand their roles in different groups, including their classes and their families, it is easier for them to clarify their relationships, thoughts and to understand their responsibilities” Explained Executive Principal Yan.
Secondary school: integration of compulsory education curriculum and MYP
International Principal Dr. Tim Fryer agreed that “We pay great attention to the cultivation of the whole child and encourage them to ask questions and take agency for their own learning”.
Secondary school: integration of compulsory education curriculum and the MYP:
Executive Principal Yan introduced the integrated curriculum from grades 6-9 and emphasized four features shown below. Please see the full version in the video for more details.
On behalf of the parents and friends in the comments div, Primary Principal Yang asked Executive Principal Yan "We all know that project learning (PBL) is a very popular trend in the world, so do we have a special method to select the topics?"
"Topic selection is based on familiar problems identified by the students and then we need to build on the knowledge the students have learned, and add a small number of challenge areas”, explained Executive Principal Yan.
International Principal Dr. Tim Fryer talked about the core of PBL: "the most important part of PBL is again the inquiry cycle where students question, take action and then reflect on their learning about how to solve problems."
Dr.Tim also pointed out the differences between traditional learning and IB learning: "In traditional education, subjects are taught separately but in IB programmes, students learn to make authentic connections between subjects and this is real world learning”
Executive Principal Yan agreed and spoke more directly about the future, saying: "in this way, students will be able to live and use what they learn and their learning will be more meaningful. In fact, our education is facing an uncertain future. What we can best do now is to equip children with appropriate skills and thinking approaches, so that they can b confident young people. This is one of our themes today, developing "Future competence”.
Cultivation of achievement: practice and presentation
Cultivation of achievement: practice and presentation
International Principal Dr.Tim shared with parents the details of the Grade 9 MYP Community Project which focuses on community and service activities: "The IB learner profile attributes include being caring, open minded and principled and we want our students to be socially responsible citizens”.
"Our children will take the academically challenging Zhong Kao exams in grade 9 and the Community Project provides a good balance of skills development" Executive Principal Yan added.
International Principal Dr.Tim introduced the approach to teaching English, which is one of the most important aspects for parents and students in a dual-language school: "The English teaching materials are from the Cambridge system and we will measure the children’s proficiency on the numerical Cambridge scale which is aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)”.
Primary Principal Yang also discussed the four components of how to cultivate children's English proficiency in our school: "differentiated grouping, mother-tongue teaching, immersive learning and extended support".
"The process of learning from primary school to secondary school will provide a solid foundation for children's learning and enable them to transition to high school smoothly."
The content above is a summary of the presentation and in the comments div our parents and friends have also asked a lot of questions!
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Chiway Repton School Xiamen
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