IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

Contribute to the "green issue" of IB World magazine

IB World magazine wants your thoughts on the environment for its green issue – what your school is doing to help the cause, how you can teach students the importance of going green, and what role IB World Schools have to play in promoting sustainability. We’re looking for opinion articles, or simply news from your school – please email editor@ibo.org by October 9 to discuss how you can get involved.

LOOKING FOR A Grade 5 CLASS TO WORK WITH US - on bullying

LOOKING FOR A CLASS TO WORK WITH US!!!Hi, I am Marcia, dual teacher at Gimnasio del Norte, Bogotá Colombia.  OUr 5th graders are startinog their own Exhibition and they would like to work about BULLYING. To start their work, we would like to contact a class in a school outside Colombia to share with us a global class the 21st, September (Peace Day).

PEP Planificador - “Las soluciones pacíficas a los conflictos contribuyen a una mejor calidad de vida”

pen pals by whole class in pyp grade 1

PYP unit planners relating to peace and conflict

Attached is a sample planner under the transdisciplinary theme Sharing the planet developed and trialled in a PYP school with the central idea “Finding peaceful solutions to conflict leads to a better quality of human life”.  This planner is included in the document Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry (2008).

New Book: Taking the PYP Forward

I've just come across a great new book, called Taking the PYP Forward.

According to the publisher:

The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme stands
in a proud tradition of reflective educators incorporating best
practice into international schools. For the PYP to maintain relevance
in education today, inquiry has to be rethought, refreshed and
reapplied. Taking the PYP Forward does exactly that.