Information for parents of Year 10.

Pak Liam – Middle School Principal Ibu Popy – Acting MYP Coordinator

Year 10 the final year of their MYP

Years 1 – 6

Years 7-10

Years 11&12

PYP

MYP

DP

The IB Continuum

The IB Middle Years Programme?

• The MYP is designed for students aged 11 to 16. It provides a framework of learning which encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers.

• The MYP emphasizes intellectual challenge, encouraging students to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and to the real world.

• It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement, qualities that are essential for life in the 21st century.

MYP around the worldAugust 2013: 1,254 schools (in 91 countries)

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AMERICAS:961 schools

ASIA PACIFIC: 132 schools

AFRICA, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST161 schools

The History of MYP at Global Jaya International School

Year Event2003-2004 MYP introduced in Year 72004-2005 MYP in Years 7, 8 and 92005-2006 MYP in Years 7-102006-2007 First group of students complete

their MYP Personal Project2008 5 Year Evaluation Visit2013 Second 5 Year Evaluation Visit

Community & Service

The requirements• Year 7: 15 – 20 hours per year minimum• Year 8: 20 – 25 hours per year minimum• Year 9: 20-25 hours per year minimum• Year 10: 30 hours per year minimum

Students must complete their journal for a pass

Types of activities• Assist a teacher organising school events.• Assist in the school library • Take part in a recycling project. • Read stories to young children at an orphanage. • Participate in community clean-up projects. • Tutoring or sport coaching for young students in local

schools.• Volunteer to help a public service organization (Red

Cross, World Vision, etc.).• Volunteer at your old elementary school to help with

activities they have (e.g. Book Week, Performances etc.).

PERSONAL PROJECT

What is the Personal Project?

• Year 10 only• A summative assignment• Culmination of the MYP • Entirely student driven• Teachers as supervisors • Driven by an AoI

• Product & Journal• Written reflection about process• PP Fair

Elements of the Personal Project

Types of Personal Projects• Original work of art• A written piece of work• A piece of literary fiction• An original science experiment• An invention• Business, management organizational plan• etc

An International recipe book

A scientific model

A photo exhibition

• So how is it supposed to be driven by an Area of Interaction ?

• What are the Areas of Interaction again ?– Approaches to Learning (ATL)– Community & Service– Human Ingenuity (formerly Homo Faber)– Health & Social Education– Environments

Service for elderly Hansen’s disease patientsCommunity and Service

• Visited patients at a local leprosarium and then suggested improvements.

• researched the history, created a questionnaire and shared with peers

• Techniques that he used for improving the patients’ condition included ice-breaking activities, simple conversation and letter writing.

The other side of the fenceHealth and Social Education

• An essay designed to change people’s attitudes towards orphans and inform about their living conditions

• Researched on Internet.• Questionnaires & Interviews with orphanage staff and the

children plus other peoples attitudes about orphans• Surveyed people about their views on orphanages and

orphans, before & after reading her article.

A medical guidebook for Suzhou expatriates Health and Social Education

• user-friendly medical guidebook for English-speaking expatriates living in Suzhou, China.

Create a calendar for acharity based on the theme education?

Community and Service • Design and create a calendar

called “everybody deserves an education” and composed pictures, using students from her school, to represent 12 different school subjects.

• A professional printer & identified a sponsor in a medical company.

• She decided to donate the proceeds from the calendar sales to UNICEF.

Creating a comic human ingenuity

• produced a comic for the patients in the hospital in which he was born. (100th anniversary. )

• He therefore chose to design a comic to give to children in the hospital, to entertain them during their long and difficult periods of treatment.

• He also received financial support from the organization Fondation Jeunes-PROJET.

Due Dates

• Project due = 28th Feb• Report Due = 11th April• PP Exhibition = 24th April

More information ?

• www.ibo.org (public website)• www.globaljaya.net portal website

– username = parent.secondary– p/w = secondary

• www.gjismyp.wordpress.com• Email liam@globaljaya.com or popy@globaljaya.com