Weekly outline

  • General

    Primary Years Programme

    • 14 November - 20 November

      • WHAT IS THE PYP (PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME) CURRICULUM?

        The curriculum is made up of three parts:

         What do we want to learn?

        The Written Curriculum

        This includes:

        • Scope and sequence documents – these documents outline the conceptual understandings and learning objectives students learn while at Tung Chung
        • Programme of Inquiry – This is the overview of all units of inquiry the students will engage with over 2 years at Tung Chung
        • Units of Inquiry – These are the four detailed planners which make up each year group’s programme

    • 21 November - 27 November

      •  How best will we learn it?

         

        The Taught Curriculum

         This includes:

        • Learning engagements that make use of structured inquiry
        • Learning skills that enable children to take ownership over their learning
        • Developing attitudes
        • Understanding concepts
      •  How best will we learn it?
        • Learning knowledge
        • Developing the attributes of the learner profile
        • Taking action

    • 28 November - 4 December

      •  How will we know what we have learned?

        The Assessed Curriculum

        This includes:

        • Formative assessment – finding out what students know in order to plan the next steps in learning
        • Summative assessment – the culmination of teaching and learning where students demonstrate what they have learned
        • Recording – how we collect and analyse evidence of learning
        • Reporting – how we communicate information about learning

        The curriculum framework consists of five essential elements:

        • Concepts
        • Knowledge
        • Skills
        • Attitudes
        • Action

        The knowledge component is developed through inquiries into six transdisciplinary themes of global significance, supported and balanced by six subject areas.

        Transdisciplinary Themes

        Subject Areas

        Who We Are

        Where We Are in Place and Time

        How We Express Ourselves

        How We Organise Ourselves

        How the World Works

        Sharing the Planet

        Language

        Mathematics

        Social Studies

        Personal, Social & Physical Education

        Arts

        Science

        This diagram shows how all of these elements fit together to develop the curriculum framework.

        PYP-Eng

        For further information about the IB and its programmes visit http://www.ibo.org