How will my child be learning?

The PYP focuses on inquiry-based teaching and learning. It allows students to be "actively involved in their own learning and to take responsibility for that learning. Inquiry allows each students' understanding of the world to develop in a manner and at a rate that is unique to that student" (IB 2007).

Inquiry can mean:
• Exploring, wondering and questioning
• Experimenting and playing with possibilities
• Making connections between previous learning and current learning
• Making predictions and acting purposefully to see what happens
• Collecting data and reporting findings
• Clarifying existing ideas and reappraising perceptions of events
• Deepening understanding through the application of a concept
• Making and testing theories
• Researching and seeking information
• Taking and defending a position
• Solving problems in a variety of ways.