1. What do you want for your children by the time they leave COPA?

2. 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 organization works with schools, governments and international organizations 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.

3. The Primary Years Programme (PYP) is a curriculum framework for young learners aged 3–12 designed by the International Baccalaureate (IB). Founded on a philosophy that recognizes a child’s natural curiosity, creativity and ability to reflect, the PYP generates a stimulating, challenging learning environment to nurture those assets and foster a lifelong love of learning in every child. The PYP, like all IB programmes, is transdisciplinary, meaning students learn across subject areas while investigating big ideas.

5. What ideas do we want children to explore?
CONCEPTS
SKILLS
KNOWLEDGE
LEARNER
PROFILE
ACTION
What ideas do we want children to explore?
What do children need to be able to succeed in a changing world?
What significant relevant subject matter do we want children to know?
What fundamental values, feelings and beliefs do we want the children to have?
How do we want children to act and when?
6 Transdisciplinary Themes
Approaches to learning
Guidelines for
implementation
7 Concepts
10 Attributes

12. What ideas do we want children to explore?
CONCEPTS
SKILLS
KNOWLEDGE
LEARNER
PROFILE
ACTION
What ideas do we want children to explore?
What do children need to be able to succeed in a changing world?
What significant relevant subject matter do we want children to know?
What fundamental values, feelings and beliefs do we want the children to have?
How do we want children to act and when?
6 Transdisciplinary Themes
Approaches to learning
Guidelines for
implementation
7 Concepts
10 Attributes

14. Concepts- what ideas do we want our children to explore?

15. Concepts- what ideas do we want our children to explore?

16. Concepts- what ideas do we want our children to explore?

17. Transdisciplinary Themes verses Topics
The environment’s natural
behaviour may lead to
adaptation for survival.