The Middle Years Programme is a programme for students aged 11 to 16 and it provides a framework of academic challenge and life skills, developing the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly changing, globalizing world. It is one of three programmes offered by International Baccalaureate, whose programmes are attended/followed by more than 778,000 IB students at 2,823 schools in 138 countries.

In our school/ At XV.gimnazija we offer the last two years of the programme (MYP 4 and MYP 5) for students aged 14 to 16.

From its beginning, the MYP has been guided by three fundamental concepts that are rooted in the IB mission statement- holistic learning, intercultural awareness and communication.

Find more about this in our Handbook or at www.ibo.org 

THE CURRICULUM MODEL
The student, also known as IB learner, whose development is the focus of the MYP, naturally appears at the centre of the curriculum model. Surrounding the individual are three concentric rings housing five ideas known as Areas of Interaction. These are not academic subjects per se as are the specific disciplines around the perimeter, but rather are common themes embedded within and visible across the academic subjects. The five Areas of Interaction are: Approaches to learning, Community and service, Health and social education, Environments and Human ingenuity.

THE SUBJECT GROUPS
The Middle Years curriculum model includes eight subject groups displayed on the exterior angles of the drawing. As with the whole design, the emphasis is on the fluidity of the system and the interrelationship of the subjects one with another. (find more in our Handbook)

Detailed descriptions of courses taught can be found HERE.

ASSESSMENT
Each subject group is provided with official IB Assessment criteria, depending on the nature of each subject. Subject teachers adapt the criteria according to a specific task. However at the end of term and school year the IB criteria are applied and students are provided with a subject report for each subject as well as a summative subject report card for all subjects.
The following are the grades that all MYP students receive on documents.

1. excellent ( 7 )
2. very good ( 6 )
3. good ( 5 )
4. satisfactory ( 4 )
5. mediocre ( 3 )
6. poor ( 2 )
7. very poor ( 1 )

Annual teaching plan for this school year can be found in attacment