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MYP PERSONAL PROJECT
In their final year of the IB Middle Years Programme, Grade 10 students are challenged to demonstrate the skills they have developed throughout the programme by designing and completing a project of inquiry based on their own personal interests and passions.
Katy Hourston Personal Project Coordinator
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he Personal Project is a body of work completed throughout Grade 10. Students go through four stages of inquiry: Investigating, Planning, Taking Action and Reflecting. Essentially another MYP ‘subject’, students must pass the Personal Project in order to obtain an MYP certificate. In the Personal Project, students produce three different products. In their Process Journal, students document the whole process, and organise the progress and development of their Project. The product or outcome of the project demonstrates their new understanding or the result of their inquiry. This can be a physical creation (such as a musical instrument or