Primary School
Starting school year 2025/2026!
The three pillars of the PYP curriculum framework
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The learner
Describes the outcomes for individual students and the outcomes they seek for themselves - what is learning?
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Learning and teaching
Articulates the distinctive features of learning and teaching - how best to support learners?
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The learning community
Emphasizes the importance of the social outcomes of learning and the role that IB communities play in achieving these outcomes - who facilitates learning and teaching?
Primary school at Bodø International School
The learning programme at Bodø International School (BOINT) is designed to engage students in learning that is relevant, challenging and significant. As an International Baccalaureate (IB) school offering the Primary Years Programme (PYP), our philosophy and approach is based upon the teaching and learning principles of guided inquiry, development of globally significant conceptual understandings, collaborative learning, differentiation and assessment for learning.
Guided inquiry enables our students to integrate information across traditional subject areas and apply the accumulation of their knowledge in a cohesive and effective way. What matters is the development of our students’ capability to take what they have learned and to apply this learning to new situations. Engaging in guided inquiry involves students and teachers in a collaborative process of identifying questions about a unit of inquiry that they then work towards answering before communicating, reflecting and acting upon newly acquired understandings and skills.