The IBMYP provides a framework of academic challenge and life skills appropriate to this stage of adolescence. The five-year programme offers an educational approach that embraces yet transcends traditional school subjects. It naturally follows the IB Primary Years Programme (IBPYP), and serves as excellent preparation for the IB Diploma Programme (IBDP).

The IBMYP, like the IBDP and IBPYP, is based on the premise that education can foster understanding among young people around the world. Intercultural awareness is central to the programme, to enable future generations to live more peacefully and productively than we do today.

Students at this stage – early puberty to mid-adolescence – are in a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development. This is a time of uncertainty, sensitivity, resistance, and questioning. Our educational programme provides them with discipline, skills, and challenging standards, but also with creativity and flexibility. The ACS IBMYP is built around these considerations but it is also concerned that students develop a personal value system by which to guide their own lives, as thoughtful members of local communities and the larger world.

The IBMYP insists on a thorough study of various disciplines, with an accent on their interrelatedness. Our teachers use criteria established by the IBO to assess all student work. The IBO does not set or mark examinations; rather it provides external moderation to validate our internal assessment standards.

As an authorised IBO world school, ACS campuses are visited and evaluated regularly. A team of professional educators reviews the delivery and effectiveness of the programme and makes recommendations for improvement.