International Baccalaureate
Patterson Elementary is proud to be an International Baccalaureate World School offering the Primary Years Programme (PYP).
The PYP is a curriculum framework for young learners aged 3-12. The PYP is based on the recognition of a child’s natural curiosity, creativity, and ability to reflect. It generates a stimulating, challenging learning environment to nurture the whole child and foster a lifelong love of learning for all.
IB Mission
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.
For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit www.ibo.org
IB PYP at Patterson
The Primary Years Programme (PYP) school fosters the development of the whole child as an inquirer, a lifelong love of learning, international-mindedness, and a strong sense of personal and social responsibility.
IB students learn about participation, advocacy, social justice, social entrepreneurship and lifestyle choices.
IB PYP students learn about agency, voice, choice and ownership.
IB students Approaches to Learning Includes social, research, thinking, communication, and self-management skills. Read for information on IB PYP Approaches to Teaching.
Central Idea is the primary conceptual lens that frames the transdisciplinary unit of inquiry and support students’ conceptual understandings of the transdisciplinary theme under which it is situated.
IB students use the following knowledge themes: 'Who We Are', 'Where We Are in Place and Time', 'How We Express Ourselves', 'How the World Works', 'How We Organize Ourselves', and 'Sharing the Planet'.
All IB programmes aim to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world.
These support higher-order thinking and provide lenses for considering knowledge related to the central idea in a range of ways. They help to frame a unit of inquiry and drive learning experiences.