The MYP 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, and serves as excellent preparation for the IB Diploma Programme (16 – 18).

The MYP, like the IB Diploma, 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 MYP 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 MYP insists on a thorough study of various disciplines, with an accent on their interrelatedness. Our teachers use criteria established by the International Baccalaureate Organisation (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.

ACS Hillingdon is a candidate school for the MYP and is currently pursuing authorisation as an IB World School through careful modification of our existing programme and curriculum. The accreditation period varies, but it will most likely be a minimum of three years. We have chosen to become an MYP school because we believe that it will enhance the excellent educational opportunities that our students already have.

ACS Hillingdon already holds IB World School status for the IB Diploma Programme. All IB World Schools share a common philosophy – a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that we believe is important for our students.

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