What is the MYP?
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (MYP) caters to students aged 11-16 years and is part of the International Baccalaureate’s 3-tier program of education, which goes from the primary years through the MYP to the Diploma Program. The MYP is designed to teach students to become independent learners who can recognise relationships between school subjects and the world outside, who can adapt to new situations and combine relevant knowledge with practical and social intelligence to solve real-world problems, either alone or with a group.
The program aims to enable students to build upon their spirit of discovery to develop an understanding and enjoyment of the process of learning, acquire knowledge and understanding and recognise the extent to which knowledge is interrelated. They learn to communicate effectively in a variety of ways and develop a sense of personal and cultural identity with respect for themselves and others. They also acquire insights into local and global concerns affecting health, the community and the environment, and develop a sense of individual and collective responsibility and citizenship.
The MYP is a challenging framework which comprises of eight subject groups, providing a broad and balanced education for early adolescents.
What are we learning?
MYP1
Homework Timetable
Curriculum
SUBJECT | taught by: | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Arts: Drama/ Theatre | Mrs Summers | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | Devising Drama | Devising Drama |
Arts: Music | Mr Richards | A World of Rhythm | Christmas Cover Song | Exploring Genre | ISA Composition Competition | Pitched Percussion Composition | |
Arts: Visual Arts | Ms Hopkins | The Natural World | Jelly Fish | ||||
Design | Ms Riach | Unit 1: Teaching You, All About Me! | Typography | Bird Houses | |||
Indv & Soc: Geography | Mr Swann | How can maps provide us with a sense of time, place and space? | Europe & The Renaissance | Expressing Belief Through Art & Architecture | |||
Indv & Soc: History | Mr Swann | What can we learn from different civilisations? | |||||
Indv & Soc: Philosophy, Religion & Ethics | Mr Swann | ||||||
Language Acquisition: Spanish | Mr Allen | Recap of talking about ourselves Recap of talking about our school Describing hair and eyes Describing where you live Describing your town Using ‘a’, ‘some’ and ‘many’ | Telling the time Using ir in the present tense Food and drink Ordering in a café Saying what you are going to do on the weekend Using the near future tense | ||||
Language & Literature | Mr Allen | Oliver Twist | The Tempest | Short Stories | Animal Farm | Metaphors in Poetry | |
Maths | Miss Redmile | Construction, measuring and reasoning geometry | Sequences Algebraic notationEquality and equivalence | Place value Fraction, decimal, percentages | Addition, subtraction Multiplication and division Fractions and % of amounts | Directed numbers Adding, subtraction fractions. | Numbers sense, sets and probability Prime number and proof. |
Physical Education | Miss Redmile | Hockey; Netball; Dodgeball | Padel | Rounders | |||
Physical Social Health and Economic Education & CEIAG | Miss Jones | Transition & Safety | Financial Decisions | Diversity | Health & Puberty | Building Relationships | |
Sciences | Miss Redmile | How Science Works | Cells | Particles & Reactions | Energy | Reproduction | Forces and Motion |
Computing | Mrs Taylor | Introduction to ICT and best practice on Computers Touch Typing – Computer Literacy Skill Scratch programming – Game Design and Development in depth project | Completion of Scratch Game Spreadsheets – Computer literacy and life skill Publisher Unit – Focus on professional presentation skills | Vector graphic project looking at logos and advertising design in real world context. |
Assessment
Farm School

November 2024 – MYP1 constructed poppies during Outdoor Learning at Rollscourt Farm.
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Visual Arts

MYP2
Curriculum
SUBJECT | Taught by: | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Arts: Drama/ Theatre | Mrs Summers | Intro to Drama | |||||
Arts: Music | Mr Richards | Ambient Music Project | Original Christmas Song | Exploring Genre | ISA Band Competition | Music for Film – Musical Palindromes | Music for Film – Shepard Tones |
Arts: Visual Arts | Miss Hopkins | The Natural World | Dogon Tribe Masks | Jelly Fish | |||
Design | Ms Riach | Unit 1: Smart Water Bottle Trial | Unit 2: Emotion Monsters | Unit 3: Healthy Eating | |||
Indv & Soc: Geography | Mr Swann | How does exploration affect global interactions? | Migration | Middle East: Centre of the world? | |||
Indv & Soc: History | Mr Swann | What was life like in the Middle Ages? | |||||
Indv & Soc: Philosophy, Religion & Ethics | Mr Swann | ||||||
Language Acquisition: Spanish | Mr Allen | Recap of talking about ourselves Recap of talking about our school Describing hair and eyes Describing where you live Describing your town Using ‘a’, ‘some’ and ‘many’ | Telling the time Using ir in the present tense Food and drink Ordering in a café Saying what you are going to do on the weekend Using the near future tense | ||||
Language Acquistiiton: Latin | Mr Allen | Recap of nominative and accusative Recap of verb endings Recap of perfect and imperfect tenses Slavery in Ancient Rome Predicting the subject from the verb | Irregular perfect verbs Roman beliefs about life and death Accusative plural Gladiatorial shows Dative case | First person and second person plurals Comparatives and superlatives Education in Ancient Rome Dative of pronouns Questions | Roman elections Ablative case Imperfect and perfect first and second verbs Mount Vesuvius | ||
Language & Literature | Mr Allen | Sherlock Holmes | The Hunger Games | Shakspeare Sonnets | |||
Creative Writing | Ms Riach | Poetry | Descriptive Writing | The Cave of Requirement | Story Writing: Generic Plots | The Art of Revising and Editing your Work | |
Maths | Mr Allen | Ratio & Scale; Representing Data; Data handling; Measures of Location | Brackets, Equations & Inequalities; Sequences; Angles in Parallel Lines; Lines and Symmetry | ||||
Physical Education | Miss Redmile | Hockey | Padel | Rounders | |||
Physical Social Health and Economic Education & CEIAG | Mrs Jones | Drugs & Alcohol | Digital Literacy | Discrimination | Emotional Wellbeing | Identity & Reltionships | |
Sciences | Miss Redmile | Ecology | Waves | Health | Periodic Table | Our Planet & The Universe | Electricity |
Computing | Mrs Taylor | Online Safety; Vector Graphics; Get into Shape and Work With Multiple Objects | |||||
Outdoor Learning | Mrs Jones | Foundations of Outdoor Learning and Environmental Awareness | Orienteering, Mapping, and Navigation | Flora and Fauna Exploration | Environmental Art and Expression | Outdoor Adventure and Survival | Environmental Stewardship and Community Engagement |
Assessment
Science: Eye Dissection






Design: Smart Water Bottle Foam Prototypes






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