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Primary Years Programme
The PYP is all about teaching young students how to learn.
How to ApplyJK–Grade 6
The Junior School sparks a joy and interest in learning that will stay with a student for life. Caring teachers stimulate natural curiosity. Small classes allow for the personal attention that helps a young girl thrive and develop her self-esteem.
What PYP Offers
The Primary Years Programme (PYP) is a framework designed to foster holistic development and nurture a lifelong love of learning.
From Junior Kindergarten through Grade 6, the PYP challenges students to think critically, research deeply and develop globally minded perspectives on a broad range of issues.
Students experience learning that is engaging, significant, challenging and relevant as it spans between, across and beyond traditional subject boundaries.
The PYP Framework
The PYP framework is developed and revised based on the latest research related to brain development and how children learn.
The PYP Framework
The PYP curriculum framework encompasses five key elements: knowledge, conceptual understandings, skills, dispositions and action. These are developed through six transdisciplinary themes. Learners are empowered to take initiative, develop the attributes of the IB Learner Profile and engage in meaningful action within their communities through their learning.
Development of Approaches to Learning Skills
Students cultivate the Approaches to Learning that include thinking, communication, research, social and self-management skills. These transferable skills help students learn how to learn, equipping them to navigate new challenges, reflect on their thinking and take ownership of their learning.
Six Transdisciplinary Themes
Guided by six transdisciplinary themes of global significance, students broaden their learning by developing their conceptual understandings, strengthening their knowledge and skills across, between and beyond subject areas.
Inquiry-Based Instruction
Inquiry is at the heart of the PYP. Drawing from the transdisciplinary themes and students’ interests, purposeful, student-centered inquiry provides authentic opportunities for learners to explore, question and make sense of the world around them. It nurtures curiosity, deepens understanding, challenges assumptions and fosters a genuine enthusiasm for lifelong learning.
Who we are
An inquiry into identity as individuals and as part of a collective.
Where we are in place and time
An inquiry into histories and orientation in place, space and time.
How we express ourselves
An inquiry into the diversity of voice, perspectives and expression.
How the world works
An inquiry into the understandings of the world and phenomena.
How we organize ourselves
An inquiry into systems, structures and networks.
Sharing the planet
An inquiry into the interdependence of human and natural worlds.
Let Her Curiosity Lead the Way
Through Branksome's Primary Years Programme, young minds explore, question and grow every day.
How to Apply
