The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organisation works with schools, governments and international organisations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
Leigh Academy Hugh Christie is an IB candidate school, delivering the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme Programme to all students in Year 7, 8 and 9. IB World Schools share a common philosophy – a commitment to improve the teaching and learning of a diverse and inclusive community of students by delivering challenging, high quality programmes of international education that share a powerful vision*. We have become part of the IB World School community, joining over 4,700 schools worldwide in delivering IB programmes.
Leigh Academy Hugh Christie is a Candidate School* for the Middle Years Programme (MYP). This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Leigh Academy Hugh Christie believes is important for our students. *Only schools authorised by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme, or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit www.ibo.org
The MYP focuses on developing 10 qualities (the IB Learner Profile) in our students which are evident throughout academy life.
These attributes are: inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced and reflective.
The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) comprises eight subject groups:
Leigh Academy Hugh Christie students also study a unit of interdisciplinary learning each academic year to support the main subject disciplines via a project or body of work in the summer term (modules 5/6)
The purpose of the unit is to help build a connected curriculum that addresses the developmental needs of students and support them to make connections between different concepts. It also provides students with an authentic purpose for the learning and connecting it to a real-world context. Consequently, the learning becomes meaningful, purposeful and deeper resulting in learning experiences that students retain.
It also supports learning in a greater depth through considering the many and varied perspectives from which a topic can be explored.
Students will also be utilise and develop critical thinking skills as students look across disciplinary boundaries to consider other viewpoints and also begin to compare and contrast concepts across subject areas. The unit also aids the consolidation of learning by synthesising ideas from many perspectives and considering alternative ways of acquiring knowledge.
Another key aspect of our three-year MYP curriculum is service-as-action, which is delivered explicitly in our advisory programme and implicitly within our MYP curriculumThe skills and work produced culminate in an MYP community project which is launched in the second half of Year 9.
Students take action when they apply what they are learning in the classroom and beyond. IB learners strive to be caring members of the community who demonstrate a commitment to service—making a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment.
The community project encourages students to reflect on their learning and the outcomes of their work – key skills that prepare them for success in further study, the workplace and the community.
For further information, please visit: www.ibo.org/programmes/middle-years-programme/curriculum/myp-projects/
For each subject group there will be an achievement level breakdown for each of the 4 criteria (A,B,C,D).
Achievement levels across the four criteria are added together creating a total number out of 32. Using the table on the right, this is converted into an MYP Grade from 1-7 with 7 being the highest.
During the course of the academic year students will be awarded an MYP Interim Grade. At the end of the year an MYP Final Grade will be awarded based on the summative assessments that have taken place during the course of the year.
