With continued support and partnership in education, KES is able to offer the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program framework to its learners, ranging in age from 6 to 12 years (Grade 1 to Grade 5), a program of education that is valued and internationally recognized. This curriculum, engaging, relevant, challenging, and significant, has been chosen by KES for Grade One to Grade Five students. The IB Primary Years Program nurtures and develops young students as caring, active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.
- Acknowledges learner agency and importance of self-efficacy to enable students to become partners in the learning process.
- Addresses student's academic, social and emotional well-being.
- Encourages students to develop independence and to take responsibility for their own learning.
- Supports student's efforts to gain understanding of the world and to function comfortably within it.
- Helps students establish personal values as a foundation upon which international mindedness will develop and flourish.
- Provides the opportunity to learn more than one language from the age of six.