The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP) aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. The PYP encourages students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.  

The PYP is a transdisciplinary, inquiry-based and student-centred education with responsible action at its core.

The PYP curriculum framework begins with the premise that PYP students are agents of their own learning and partners in the learning process. They have innate potential to inquire, question, wonder and theorize about themselves, others, and the world around them. When learning communities recognise children’s emergent identities and competencies, they create an educational context that values children both for who they are in the present and who they will become in the future. 

This understanding of how students learn is foundational to the inquiry-based and concept-driven transdisciplinary model of learning and teaching. Through engaging with the programme of inquiry and reflecting on their learning, PYP students develop knowledge, conceptual understandings, skills and the attributes of the IB Learner profile to make a difference in their own lives, their communities, and beyond. They demonstrate the agility and imagination to respond to new and unexpected challenges and opportunities and to take actions for a better and more peaceful world.