Primary Years Programme

The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) is a curriculum designed for students (ages 3-11). The central purpose of the Primary Years Programme is to develop the attributes and traits identified in the IB 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 the classroom, during Town Meetings (assemblies), on the playground and while participating in the school's many after school activities.

The PYP has designed a transdisciplinary curriculum, which draws the individual disciplines together into a coherent whole, while preserving the essence of each subject.

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