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Middle Years Programme
It is a programme of international education designed to help students develop the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and skills necessary to participate actively and responsibly in a changing world.
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) is designed for students aged 11 to 16.
This period, encompassing early puberty and mid-adolescence, is a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development and requires a programme that helps students participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated world. Learning how to learn and how to evaluate information critically is as important as learning facts.
Curriculum documents are published in English, French, Spanish and Chinese but schools may offer the programme in other languages.
The Middle Years Programme (MYP) is one of three programmes offered by the IB.
What does the curriculum contain?
The curriculum contains eight subject groups together with a core made up of five areas of interaction.
This is illustrated by means of an octagon with the five areas of interaction at its centre.
Students study subjects from each of the eight subject groups through the five areas of interaction: approaches to learning, community and service, homo faber, environment, and health and social education.
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