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Primary Years Programme (PYP) SWIS is an authorized school that offers the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, from Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 5. The PYP at SWIS focuses on the development of the whole child, both within the classroom and wider world. The program encourages international mindedness and a positive attitude to learning by engaging students in inquiries and developing their awareness of the process of learning, so that they become lifelong learners. Learning Celebrations SWIS PYP encourages learning beyond traditional subjects with meaningful, in depth inquiries into real life issues. At its core is the commitment to a transdisciplinary model of themes, which are globally significant, where the learning is not confined within bound-areas of traditional subject areas but is supported and enriched by them. PYP Students study in the following areas Language (English and Chinese) Mathematics Science Social Studies Arts (Music, Visual Art, and Drama) Personal, Social, and Physical Education G5 Exhibition Classroom Without Walls PYP Programme Highlights Learning Celebrations Learning celebrations offer SWIS students the opportunity to share their current learning with their peers in the school theater. Students also develop the confidence to perform and present items on stage, as well as displaying their ever growing information unication and technology skills. G5 Exhibition In the Primary Years Programme, the Grade 5 students participate in a culminating project, the PYP Exhibition. This Exhibition represents a significant event in the life of a PYP school and students. As the culminating experience, the Exhibition reflects all major features of the Programme, which includes carefully planned assessment and feedback for the students. Classroom Without Walls The ‘Classroom Without Walls’ programme, provides PYP students with opportunities to become active participants in the world around them, learning through hands-on exploration and discovery. This program also provides students with opportunities to demonstrate their profiles as IB learners in an open environment, and to further reflect and make connections in relation to their Units of Inquiry. 11 INSPIRING GLOBAL MINDS
10 REASONS why the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) is ideal for students to become active, lifelong learners. It encourages students to inquire. PYP students are confident communicators. Learning how to learn. It encourages international-mindedness. Understanding a complex and interdependent world. Seeing things from different perspectives. Students take Action. Thinking about Issues. It involves the whole school learning community. Caring and responsible citizens. 03 INSPIRING GLOBAL MINDS 12
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