Primary Years
The Primary Years Programme
Being an IB World School means that it is our aim to educate for life. Our ambition is to create internationally minded and knowledgeable citizens with a strong foundation both socially and academically.
Knowledge: what do we want students to know?
As the PYP is a transdisciplinary programme, most subjects are taught within units of inquiry. Each academic year consists of six units of inquiry, based on a central idea that teachers and students explore over a number of weeks. Both students and families work actively with the central idea during the current unit, which helps students deepen their understanding and inquire further.
IB Elements: a guide for the Europaskolan community
Find out more about the essential elements of the IB programme: transdisciplinary themes, the inquiry cycle, concepts, learner profile attributes, approaches to learning and taking action.
Concepts, skills and attitudes
Key concepts
Form, function, responsibility, reflection, causation, connection, change and perspective — conceptual lenses that help students connect ideas across subjects.
Transdisciplinary skills
Thinking, social, communication, self-management and research skills, identified by the teacher for each unit and reflected on by the students.
Attitudes
Appreciation, creativity, independence, curiosity, integrity, confidence, empathy, respect, cooperation, commitment, enthusiasm and tolerance.
Action
The PYP believes that successful inquiry leads to responsible action. As an IB school it is our obligation to guarantee that there is an opportunity for action within units of inquiry. Teachers guide students in choosing, taking and reflecting on action in order to make a meaningful difference in the world.
The PYP Exhibition
In the final year of the programme, students undertake a collaborative interdisciplinary inquiry that requires them to identify, investigate and propose solutions to real-life issues, then present their findings to the community. As the culminating experience of the PYP, the Exhibition lets students demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning while celebrating their transition from the PYP to the MYP.
Sample daily schedules
IBEY standard schedule
- 7:30 School opens
- 8:30 Arrival
- 9:10 Unit lesson
- 9:30 Circle time
- 9:45 Literacy stations
- 11:45 Lunch
- 12:30 PSPE lesson
- 12:50 Math
- 13:30 After School Care
PYP standard schedule
- 7:30 School opens
- 8:30 Arrival
- 9:10 Unit lesson
- 10:00 Mathematics
- 11:15 Lunch
- 11:45 Outing
- 12:45 Swedish
- 13:45 Break
- 14:00 Music
- 14:30 After School Care