Middle Years Programme 11-16yrs

The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) is a curriculum designed to meet the educational needs of students between the ages of 11 and 16.

Young people at this stage of their education require an engaging and holistic curriculum that is relevant to the important real world issues that so concern them - from the personal to the global. In preparation for further academic studies, they need to become experts at learning; the ability to locate, process, critically evaluate and communicate information is essential. As members of an international community, they need to develop intercultural awareness and an understanding of the history and traditions that underlie cultural identity.

Underpinning the Middle Years Programme is the learner profile. Students are taught to become; inquirers, thinkers, communicators, risk-takers, and to be knowledgeable, principled, caring, open-minded, balanced and reflective. Our students develop these attributes throughout their school experience, within and outside the classroom.

In Grade 10 students give personal project presentations where they show themselves to be able communicators.

Southbank's classes are organised slightly differently from some other school systems. Click here to see our class organisation compared to other systems.