IB Program

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME

Roberts Elementary is an authorized International Baccalaureate - Primary Years Programme (PYP) school. Roberts received authorization on March 10, 2005. The IB program is administered by the International Baccalaureate Organization.

IB MISSION

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

IB COMMUNITY THEME

The IB community now includes more than 2,376 schools, 643,000 students, teachers, parents, staff, examiners and other colleagues in more than 128 countries. In an effort to strengthen this large and growing community and the IB mission, which we share, the IB has initiated an exciting new project— the IB community theme.

Asian child with puzzle The idea of a community theme was conceived in 2006 and the first theme: sharing our humanity, was officially launched in April 2007 at the annual general meeting.

The theme, which will last three years, is intended to serve as a focus for the IB and IB World Schools. We aim to capture the excellent initiatives that are already underway in many schools and encourage and inspire new activities, in and out of the classroom, around the following topics:

Global poverty
Education for all
Peace and conflict
Global infectious diseases
Digital divide: uneven access to information and communication technologies
Disasters and emergencies.
(High Noon by J.F Rischard, 2002)

The IB community theme in the Primary Years Programme (PDF, 56kb)

IB LEARNER PROFILE

At the heart of all IB programmes is the Learner Profile which aims to develop internationally minded people who in recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world.

IB learners strive to be;

Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective

IB ATTITUDES

It is vital that there is also focus on the development of personal attitudes toward people, toward the environment and toward learning attitudes that contribute to the well being of the individual and of the group.

In IBPYP schools, learners should demonstrate;