The Australian International School (AIS) will continue implementing the Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IB). The Programme at AIS is designed for students from Infant Kindergarten through to Year 6. The curriculum framework provides for the development of the whole child. The PYP is a uniquely international programme focusing on the total growth of the developing child. It encompasses social, physical, emotional and cultural needs in addition to academics.

The PYP provides a shared, transdisciplinary curriculum for primary schools, with a balanced programme of concepts, knowledge, skills and action. The PYP transdisciplinary curriculum brings individual disciplines together into a coherent whole, while preserving the essence of each single subject.

The approach to learning focuses on children developing skills and acquiring knowledge that will assist them in becoming successful life-long learners. Children are encouraged to participate in the development of learning experiences and are challenged to hypothesise, reflect, question and test in order to construct their own understandings and thus gain further knowledge.

Across all curriculum areas, your child will:

- Develop a deep understanding of important concepts: Change – Connection – Form – Function – Perspective – Causation – Responsibility

- Conduct research into knowledge which has local and global significance

- Acquire and practice a wide range of essential skills in Languages, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology, Art, Music and Physical Education (PE)

- Learn more effectively by using the inquiry based learning approach

- Learn and use the skills of a second language and be encouraged to develop positive attitudes towards learning, the environment and other people.

By balancing the PYP with concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes and action, it becomes academically challenging, personally engaging and globally, nationally and locally relevant.

At AIS and through the PYP curriculum, we set high standards and high expectations, as teachers collaboratively plan the curriculum to ensure a coherent education. Our curriculum incorporates a range of assessment, reporting and recording strategies in order to give parents clear information about their children’s progress. AIS parents receive this information via newsletters, update letters, parent-teacher conferences, the sharing and displaying of student’s work, student led conferences, parent information sessions and through the Primary Years Curriculum Guide.

At AIS your child will develop, acquire and practise a range of essential skills, and be encouraged to develop positive attitudes towards their own learning, the environment and others. Children at AIS will also have the opportunity to be involved in responsible action and social service.

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