PYP Parents Programme

As an IB PYP (International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme) World School, we view “partnerships with parents and legal guardians as benefitting the students and value the perspectives they bring to the learning community. The partnerships between home and school provide the foundation to support students’ learning, growth, health and well-being and agency”.

To that end, we are organizing monthly meetings to further involve you in your child’s education. Each month, we focus on one aspect of the PYP.

On 9 January Tuesday, our focus was ’Collaborative learning: Learning with and from each other, living peacefully together’.

From a PYP perspective, ‘Education is a social or collective endeavour and a benefit to the community as a whole, as well as to the individuals within it. Everyone in the learning community has agency; they see themselves as contributors to its ongoing strength and success, and take action to bring about change.’

During the workshop, we discussed an ideal: ‘Together the learning community:

• lives peacefully together

• prioritizes people and their relationships

• assumes shared responsibility for learning, health and well-being.’

We reflected on our roles in making that happen, as well as the current situation in our school. Please see the photos for some reflection notes.

We thank our parents and staff for assuming shared responsibility for learning, health and well-being in our school community.

Our next meeting will take place on 7th February 2023, Tuesday, between 15.00-16.00. This time we will be inquiring into ‘Inquiry based learning: being actively involved in and taking responsibility for own learning’. You can write to Selda.Mansur@acgedu.com if you would like to learn more about PYP implementation and please contact Mia.Sari@acgedu.com , if you plan to join our February workshop.