ACADEMICS
Early Years Programme
The IB Early Years Programme (EYP) for children aged 3 - 6 nurtures and develops young students as caring, active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.
The EYP offers an inquiry-based, transdisciplinary curriculum framework that builds conceptual understanding. It is a student-centered approach to education for children aged 3-12. Play is more than fun—it’s the key to unlocking a child’s potential to learn and grow.
The EYP early years (for children aged 3 – 6) frees your child to play and learn, so they can build the proven curiosity, creativity, and confidence they’ll need to thrive today—and well into the future.
IB Programmes Offered
At the Democratic School we offered Comprehensive IB programmes tailored for every stage of educational development.
The EYP curriculum framework
The EYP early years offers a holistic learning experience that integrates socio-emotional, physical, and cognitive development, where:
Learners explore their environment and learn about their world through play and relationships with peers, teachers, family, and community members.
Teachers are partners, nurturers and guides who help facilitate the exploration of children’s interests as they work on long- and short-term projects.
Schools provide dynamic environments that nurture curiosity, creativity, and confidence.
It provide a felxible framework , supporting childrent to build the curiosty, creativity and confidence they'll need to thrive in school - and beyond lifke. the Framework encourages six transdisciplinary themes.
Who we are
Where we are in place and time
How we express ourselves
How th world works
How we organize ourselves
Sharing the planet
Embedded in the framework is the recognition of the importance of fostering an individual's self-efficacy. Students with a strong sense of self-efficacy are active in their own learning and take action in their learning community.
Why offer the EYP?
The EYP early years framework is informed by research and designed to give children choices, encouraging them to start taking ownership of their learning. The programme nurtures a child’s creativity and curiosity by:
giving them stimulating and appropriate preschool curriculum in the earliest years when their brains are optimally programmed to benefit from these experiences
acknowledging that young learners are intelligent, resourceful and creative individuals who grow, develop and learn at different rates
allowing play to be the primary driver for inquiry
enabling children to develop agency and be able to construct their own learning
Primary Years Programme
The IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) for children aged 3 - 12 nurtures and develops young students as caring, active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.
The PYP offers an inquiry-based, transdisciplinary curriculum framework that builds conceptual understanding. It is a student-centered approach to education for children aged 3-12. It reflects the best of educational research, thought leadership and experience derived from IB World Schools.
The PYP has evolved to become a world leader in future-focused education. The PYP is an example of best educational practice globally, responding to the challenges and opportunities facing young students in our rapidly changing world.
The PYP curriculum framework
The PYP curriculum framework begins with the premise that students are agents of their own learning and partners in the learning process. It prioritizes people and their relationships to build a strong learning community.
PYP students use their initiative to take responsibility and ownership of their learning. By learning through inquiry and reflecting on their own learning, PYP students develop knowledge, conceptual understandings, skills and the attributes of the IB Learner profile to make a difference in their own lives, their communities, and beyond.
The framework emphasizes the central principle of agency, which underpins the three pillars of school life:
Embedded in the framework is the recognition of the importance of fostering an individual's self-efficacy. Students with a strong sense of self-efficacy are active in their own learning and take action in their learning community.
Why offer the PYP?
The PYP focuses on the development of the whole child as an inquirer, both in school and in the world beyond. The PYP offers a transformative experience for students, teachers and whole school communities and delivers excellent outcomes by providing an education that is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant.
PYP learners know how to take ownership of their learning, collaborating with teachers to deepen understanding and increase their confidence and self-motivation. Through actively engaging in integrated ongoing assessment they become effective, self-regulated learners who can act on constructive feedback.
Guided by six transdisciplinary themes of global significance, students broaden their learning by developing their conceptual understandings, strengthening their knowledge and skills across, between and beyond subject areas.
Middle Years Programme
The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) is for students aged 11-16.
The IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) offers a challenging educational framework for students aged 11-16 that encourages them to think critically, creatively, and reflectively.
It bridges traditional subjects with real-world applications, fostering intellectual growth through an interdisciplinary approach. The MYP is flexible and can align with most national or local curriculums, making it adaptable to diverse educational contexts. Like the PYP, the MYP focuses on developing students as independent learners who understand global issues, preparing them for the academic demands of the IB Diploma Programme and beyond.
What is the MYP?
The MYP curriculum
The MYP curriculum framework comprises eight subject groups, providing a broad and balanced education for early adolescents.
The MYP requires at least 50 hours of teaching time for each subject group, in each year of the programme. In the final two years of the programme, carefully-defined subject group flexibility allows students to meet local requirements and personal learning goals.
Read about the MYP curriculum.
The MYP is a challenging framework that encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world.
The MYP is a five-year programme, which can be implemented in a partnership between schools, or in several abbreviated (two, three or four year) formats. Students who complete the MYP are well-prepared to undertake the IB Diploma Programme (DP) or Career-related Programme (CP).
Find out more about the MYP.
External assessment and recognition
In the final year of the programme, optional MYP eAssessment provides IB-validated grades based on examinations and course work. Students who undertake external assessment are eligible for MYP course results and the IB MYP Certificate.
Find out more about MYP assessment.
Access and eligibility
The MYP is open to any student aged 11 to 16, at The Democratic School that have been authorized to implement the programme.
The MYP is inclusive by design; students of all interests and academic abilities can benefit from their participation. Implementation of the MYP is a whole-school endeavour, although the programme can accommodate academically-selective models.
Learn more about students in the MYP.
