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Our Vision & Mission
Our Vision
“Inspiring Individuals”
Our Mission
To offer a challenging and dynamic international
education that inspires and supports students in
developing the knowledge, skills, and characteristics to
take responsible action for the betterment of their local
and global communities.
Core Values (QLBs)
Inspiring Individuals Strive for Understanding…
Our forums and workshops aim to provide a deeper understanding of the programmes on offer in the
Primary school, including taking a deeper look at the PYP. Your questions are valid and always
answered. Your depth of understanding will enable you to better support your children and the
teachers as well as enhance the school home partnerships.
Inspiring Individuals nurture passion in self and others…
Your children are your passion, you want what is best for them, you want them to have a quality
education, be safe and be happy at school. Those are our aims too, for each individual child. Working
together in partnership can only provide a better support system for our students.
Inspiring Individuals take action ethically…
Understanding the programme and the expectations allows us to offer more connected and authentic
support. Answering your questions and being transparent about the teaching and learning,
philosophes, experiences at KIS ensures open dialogue and added value to our partnerships.
Inspiring Individuals create a caring and inclusive community…
KIS is a community that brings together families, children and teachers from around the world,
listening and sharing perspectives and ideas helps us to become an inclusive and caring community.
What are your wonderings?
What would you like
to know about the
PYP in the Early
Years?
What are you
wondering?Jot your thoughts down on post it
notes and keep them close!
The PYP Framework
Students demonstrate Agency
when they:
● Influence and direct their own
learning
● Make choices and voice their
own opinions, take action.
● Ask questions and express
wonderings
● Construct new meanings &
communicate new
understandings
● Participate in, and contribute
to the learning community
Learning & Teaching:
● Whole School POI - includes all
the Elements of the PYP; such
as:
● Key Concepts - deeper
thinking & Understanding● Related Concepts - knowledge
areas (Language, Math,
Science, Social Studies, PSPE
& Arts
● Approaches to Learning - skills
● Learning through Inquiry
● Reflection - Self & Peer based
on collaborative designed criteria
● Evidence of Understanding -
Assessment
The Learning Community:
● Supporting Learner Agency through Technology; design of
Learning Spaces and Student Leadership
● Strategies on connecting all aspects of the Learner,
Learning & Teaching and the Learning Community to
support a deep understanding of International Mindedness
(IBLP)
Your thoughts and predictions!
What Learner Profile
attributes do you
think you will need to
demonstrate during
this workshop?
What makes you
say that?
Jot your thoughts down on post it
notes and keep them close!
Transdisciplinary Programme
• Who we are
• Where we are in place and time
• How we express ourselves
• How the world works
• How we organize ourselves
• Sharing the Planet
KIS Curriculum Programme of Inquiry (POI)
• Making authentic curricular
connections
• Units of inquiry (UOI)
• Mapping and bringing it all
together across the
primary school
• Vertical and horizontal
curriculum alignment
• Review and flexibility
KIS Curriculum (knowledge areas)
Written Curriculum Areas:
• Language
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Personal, Social, Physical
Education(PE)
• The Arts (Music, Visual Arts,
Drama and Dance)
What are your thinking?
What subject areas
do you think are
focused on?
What makes you
say that?Jot your thoughts down on the
sheet provided!
The KIS Curriculum (knowledge areas)
KIS Language Arts Curriculum document Strands:
• Listening and Speaking
• Written Language Reading
• Written Language Writing
• Viewing and Presenting
• Knowledge about Language
The PYP Elements
Key Concepts:Cultivating a depth in thinking
Knowledge Areas:Learning about conceptual
understandings
Approaches to
Learning: (Skills)Learning how to build
conceptual understandings
Action:Learner Agency
Form - What is it?
Function: How does it work?
Causation: Why is it as it is?
Change: How is it
transforming?
Connection: How is it linked
to other things?
Perspective: What are the
points of view?
Responsibility: What are
our obligations?
Math - Number; Data
Handling; Measurement -
Shape & Space; Pattern &
Function
Language - Oral (Listening
& Speaking); Visal (View &
Presenting); Written
(Reading & Writing)
PSPE - Identity; Active
Living; Interactions
Arts - Creating &
Responding through Drama;
Music; Dance; Visual Arts
Science & Social Studies -
strands that directly reflect
Units of Inquiry
● Self Management Skills:
Organisation; States of
Mind
● Social Skills: Positive
interpersonal relationships
& Collaboration; Social
Emotional Intelligence
● Communication Skills:
Exchanging information;
Literacy; ICT
● Thinking Skills: Critical
Thinking; Creative
Thinking; Transfer;
Reflection
● Research Skills:
Information Literacy;
Media Literacy; Ethical
use of Media/Information
Understanding myself
as a Learner
Knowing:
● what I already know
● what I will do next
● how my thinking is
changing
Transferring and
applying my
understandings to new
experiences
Parent Agency - what next?
Central Idea:
Play extends ideas, develops creativity and encourages social interaction
Lines of Inquiry:• Exploring ideas and
• Expressing creativity
• Positive interactions
Pulling it all together
Students demonstrate Agency
when they:
● Influence and direct their own
learning
● Make choices and voice their
own opinions, take action.
● Ask questions and express
wonderings
● Construct new meanings &
communicate new
understandings
● Participate in, and contribute
to the learning community
Learning & Teaching:
● Whole School POI - includes all
the Elements of the PYP; such
as:
● Key Concepts - deeper
thinking & Understanding● Related Concepts - knowledge
areas (Language, Math,
Science, Social Studies, PSPE
& Arts
● Approaches to Learning - skills
● Learning through Inquiry
● Reflection - Self & Peer based
on collaborative designed criteria
● Evidence of Understanding -
Assessment
The Learning Community:
● Supporting Learner Agency through Technology; design of
Learning Spaces and Student Leadership
● Strategies on connecting all aspects of the Learner,
Learning & Teaching and the Learning Community to
support a deep understanding of International Mindedness
(IBLP)
What are your new understandings?
How have your
wonderings and
questions been
answered?
What makes you
say this?Refer to your initial questions and
wonderings at the beginning of this
workshop (post it note recordings)