EYP Programme

The international preschool with Early Years Programme (EYP) for ages 3-5 and Pre-EYP for ages 1-2. The preschool is placed in Hagabo.

The international preschool was established in January 2003 to cater for students from ages 1 through 5 years. As a result of the PYP re-evaluation in May 2016, it was recommended to rename it to Early Years Programme (EYP) for ages 3-5, while ages 1-2 remains the preschool class (Pre-EYP) following the Swedish approach and we bridge it with the EYP by developing small thematic play-based units.

Play

At our school, we believe that education influences and reflects the values of society. It is important therefore that in our school, even at this young age, we recognise a broad set of common values and purpose that underpin the school curriculum and the work within the EYP.

Children are curious and capable learners with a sense of agency, rich in potential, bringing valid skills, preferences and understandings of learning. Through play, children actively create meaning from their interactions with people and their environments. These meanings are revisited and revised in light of new experiences and further learning.

The EYP strives for a balance between the search for understanding, the acquisition of essential knowledge and skills, the development of positive attitudes and the opportunity for positive action through play.

Children are naturally motivated to play. The play-based learning approach uses this natural motivation and contextualizes it to learning. In the framework of the PYP, learners explore, experiment, discover and solve problems in imaginative and playful ways related to the Unit of Inquiry under study.

Our EYP Classrooms are purposefully set up with play stations linked to the Unit under study and the lines of inquiry (see the POI). There is a provocation to delve deeper into the inquiry, and students are encouraged to interact with the provocation and come up with their own hypothesis/understanding. For example: at a blocks station, the teacher can provocate the child further with posing inquiry questions on maths and science (connected to the subject scope and sequence of the school) like “how tall is this block tower…”, “How many blocks do you need…”, “Can you blow this house down..” etc.

This encourages the children to think and develop cognitive as well as social skills. This also build confidence in engaging with new experiences and environments.

ISÄ EYP Curriculum

The Primary Years Programme – Early Years (PYP-EY) offers a transdisciplinary, play-based-inquiry and student-centered education, enabling students to learn between, across and beyond traditional subject boundaries.

The framework serves as the curriculum organizer and offers a guide to achieve authentic learning that is engaging, significant, challenging and relevant for all students.

Through the Programme of Inquiry – POI (all schools develop their own in context to their own school) and by reflecting on their learning, students develop knowledge, conceptual understandings, skills and the attributes of the IB Learner profile.

Informed by constructivist and social-constructivist learning theories, the emphasis on play, collaborative inquiry and integrative learning honours the curiosity, voice, and contribution of the students. At the heart of the PYP curriculum are Approaches to Teaching (ATT) and Approaches to Learning (ATL). There are six subjects that are conceptually taught using the six transdisciplinary themes. The aim is to develop critical thinkers and lifelong inquirers.

In the PYP Enhancements, there are now three pillars of the curriculum – The Learner, Learning and Teaching, and The Learning Community.

  • The Learner: describes the outcomes for individual students and the outcomes they seek for themselves (what is learning?)
  • Learning and Teaching: articulates the distinctive features of learning and teaching (how best to support learners?)
  • The Learning Community: emphasizes the importance of the social outcomes of learning and the role that IB communities play in achieving these outcomes (who facilitates learning and teaching?)

The PYP Coordinator conduct Parent Information sessions throughout the year to support parents in understanding this curricular framework.

To simplify, there are subject specific scope and sequence documents (see attached) that the teachers weave into learning experiences, so that the students can build enduring understanding of the world around them through play and inquiry in the Transdisciplinary themes.

The PYP identifies a body of knowledge for all students in all cultures, in six subject areas:

  • Language
  • Social studies
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Arts
  • Personal, social and physical education

In the spirit of internationalism students are required to learn a second language in addition to the language of instruction of the school. At ISÄ EYP, we teach Swedish as a second language right from EYP 1.

Six transdisciplinary themes

The elements at the centre of the curriculum model are developed and applied in a context defined by the six transdisciplinary themes:

  • Who we are
  • Where we are in place and time
  • How we express ourselves
  • How the world works
  • How we organize ourselves
  • Sharing the planet

At ISÄ EYP we teach four units per grade level that run for approximately 9 weeks each.

Who we are, Where we are in place and time and How we express ourselves are mandatory to be taught in the EYP. Therefore, at ISÄ, we have ensured a balance of the other three themes, within the EYP years. For example, EYP 1 takes the first three themes and How the World works. EYP 2 takes the first three themes and Sharing and planet and EYP 3 takes the first three themes and How we organize ourselves.

EYP Calendar

Important documents: Welcome back to school PPTs, Parent Handbook, Preschool Rules, Scope and sequence.

Read more about the EYP on IBO's web site www.ibo.org External link.

Contact EYP/Preschool

Open between 7:30 AM-5:30PM

Email for all EYP

internationalpreschool@almhult.se

EYP Academic coordinator

Ann Castro Rava

ann.castro-rava@almhult.se

Cherries and EYP1

+46 476 - 551 34

EYP2 and EYP3

+46 476 - 555 24

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