The Middle Years Programme provides an international program of study designed to meet the educational requirements of students aged 11-16 years. The five-year program offers an educational approach that embraces yet transcends traditional school subjects. It follows naturally the Primary Years Programme and serves as excellent preparation for the rigors of the Diploma Programme.

The MYP is based on the premise that education can foster understanding among young people around the world. The three basic philosophies that underpin the IBMYP are:

• Holistic Education – ensures that teachers communicate and coordinate learning activities across and within academic disciplines. Special events and activities highlight cross-curricular links through the areas of interaction.
• Intercultural awareness is central to the program, and impacts how the school organizes its structure, the climate within and relations with the outside community. We hope to foster tolerance and respect and also empathy and understanding.
• Communication – MYP emphasizes communication as a key objective to learning. Communication supports understanding and allows student reflection and expression.

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. An educational program needs to provide them with discipline, skills and challenging standards, but also with creativity and flexibility. The IBO builds its program 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.