Middle School Programme (MSP)
DISK has adopted the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) framework for Grades 6 to 10.
Our Middle School Program (MSP) is designed to meet the needs of students aged 11 to 16. It is a broad, rigorous curriculum focusing on contextual, conceptual, and inquiry-based learning across eight subject groups.
Our MSP enables connections to be made between subjects while maintaining the integrity of the disciplines. Students experience authentic learning experiences with real-world connections to promote critical and creative thinking.
Our MSP:
Our Middle School Program (MSP) is designed to meet the needs of students aged 11 to 16. It is a broad, rigorous curriculum focusing on contextual, conceptual, and inquiry-based learning across eight subject groups.
Our MSP enables connections to be made between subjects while maintaining the integrity of the disciplines. Students experience authentic learning experiences with real-world connections to promote critical and creative thinking.
Our MSP:
- Addresses holistically intellectual, social, emotional, and physical well-being.
- Provides opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to manage complexity and take responsible action.
- Focuses on breadth and depth of understanding through concept based learning.
- Requires the study of at least two languages to support students in understanding their own cultures and those of others.
- Empowers students to participate in service-related activities within the community and locally.
- Prepares students for further education, the workplace, and lifelong learning.
Subject Groups
- Art
- Design
- English
- Individuals and Societies
- Japanese
- Math
- Music
- Physical and Health Education
- Science
Approaches to Learning
A unifying thread throughout all MSP subject groups, approaches to learning (ATL) provide the foundation for independent learning and encourage the application of knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts. Developing and applying these social, thinking, research, communication, and self-management skills helps students learn how to learn.
The ATL categories of interrelated skills aim to empower students to become self-regulated learners. Who know how to ask good questions, set goals, pursue their aspirations, and the determination to achieve them.
ATL skills also help to support students’ sense of agency, encouraging them to see their learning as an active and dynamic process.
The ATL categories of interrelated skills aim to empower students to become self-regulated learners. Who know how to ask good questions, set goals, pursue their aspirations, and the determination to achieve them.
ATL skills also help to support students’ sense of agency, encouraging them to see their learning as an active and dynamic process.
- Communication skills
- Social skills: collaboration
- Self-management skills: organization, affective, reflection
- Research skills: information literacy and media literacy
- Thinking skills: critical thinking, creative thinking, transfer
Personal Project
Our Middle School Program culminates in a Personal Project in grade 10. The Personal Project is an independent and challenging endeavor. Students demonstrate their ATL skills by researching an in-depth a topic of their choice. The students choose an area of interest and passion, identify a goal and the impact on others, and create a product over six months. The process and skills developed throughout the project help students prepare for the Extended Essay required in the IB Diploma Program in grade 11 and 12.
Updated Nov'22
