Junior School Our Junior School fosters a love of learning in students from Reception to Year 5, using the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.

The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) develops the whole child as an inquirer, in the classroom and beyond. It enables students to explore their world through a series of guided inquiries that enrich the curriculum, providng them with increasing responsibility for their learning.

Quality educational experiences are planned with consideration of the needs, abilities, and backgrounds of all students, and our learning environments are designed to stimulate and promote international mindedness, and a love of learning, wellbeing, friendship, and community.

The PYP acknowledges the unique needs of early learners. Early learning in the PYP is a holistic experience that integrates socio-emotional, physical and cognitive development. In the PYP classroom, learning takes place in dynamic environments that promote play, discovery, and exploration.


PYP Learning Areas

The PYP framework incorporates a balance between five essential elements.

  1. Knowledge
  2. Concepts
  3. Skills
  4. Attitudes
  5. Action.

Units of Inquiry

Learning under the Internationall Baccalaureate is deliberately transdisciplinary, with the PYP using a variety of subjects to explore six themes known as 'Units of Inquiry'.

  1. Who we are.
  2. Where we are in place and time.
  3. How we express ourselves.
  4. How the world works.
  5. How we organise ourselves.
  6. Sharing the planet.

Subject Areas

Units of Inquiry help our young learners connect to what is real in the world, conveying learning with relevance between, across, and beyond six PYP subjects.

  1. Language
  2. Social studies
  3. Mathematics
  4. Arts
  5. Science
  6. Personal, Social and Physical Education

The PYP Exhibition 

At the end of their PYP learning experience, Year 5 students participate in an exhibition demonstrating their search for a solution to a real world problem of global significance.

Working in small groups with a dedicated Teacher Mentor, students engage all of the inquiry skills they've developed in the PYP to establish a global concern they want to approach, and diligently research potential solutions that the community can take to allieviate or solve that concern. The result of this work is then presented in a multi-media display that incorporates imagery, text, 3D modelling, digital technologies, interactive experiences, and more.

The Exhibition presentation is student-led, with teams exploring their findings with families, Teachers, and peers in a demonstration of their knowledge and leadership skills.