Welcome to Beacon Junior School, where young minds embark on an extraordinary journey of education, growth, and empowerment. As a distinguished institution, we are committed to providing an exceptional learning experience that sets the stage for a lifetime of success.
Central to the Primary Years Programme (PYP) are six transdisciplinary themes that hold global significance. These themes serve as the foundation for exploration and learning, utilizing the skills and knowledge acquired across six subject areas and various disciplines. Students engage with these themes not only in the classroom but also during group discussions, assemblies, on the playground, and through their involvement in extra-curricular activities. The PYP places a strong emphasis on fostering inquiry skills.
As a culmination of their PYP journey, all Year 5 students actively participate in the PYP Exhibition. This significant event provides an opportunity for students to showcase their learning and understanding in a comprehensive manner.
The PYP curriculum framework offers an inquiry-based, transdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes the central principle of a ‘student-centered approach’.
The programme aims to achieve the following goals by encouraging children to:
It believes in students as partners in the learning process.
It promotes an understanding of commonalities of local, national, and global significance.
It supports the well-being of students and creates a safe and engaging environment that nurtures lifelong learners.
A local and Global Outlook:
The Primary Years Programme (PYP) is a concept-based, inquiry-driven curriculum framework. The PYP strives for a balance between the search for understanding, the acquisition of essential knowledge and approaches to learning (skills), the development of positive attitudes and the opportunity for impactful action.
PYP emphasizes on four components:
Concepts – Powerful ideas that have relevance within and across the disciplines and which learners must explore and re-explore in order to deepen understanding
Approaches to learning – Skills the learners need to be able to succeed in a changing, challenging world such as thinking, research, social, communication and self-management skills.
Knowledge – Significant, relevant, subject matter.
Action – Taking positive action within and beyond our community
At each grade level, students explore knowledge that is of importance in understanding the human condition and has significance for all students of all cultures. The topics studied are engaging and challenging, and have the potential to actively involve students in their own learning.
PYP curriculum framework, has 6 transdisciplinary themes. These themes have a local and global significance and offer students the opportunity to explore the commonalities of human experience. By merging local and global perspectives, the transdisciplinary themes in our curriculum facilitate a comprehensive understanding of the world and its interconnectedness. These themes are thoughtfully designed to integrate local and global issues, enabling students to recognize their significance and relevance in the broader context.
The six transdisciplinary themes in PYP are :
Who We Are
Where We Are in Place and Time
How We Organize Ourselves
How We Express Ourselves
How the World Works
Sharing the Planet
Throughout the school year, each captivating theme is explored intensively for approximately five to six weeks. This extended duration allows for in-depth investigation, ensuring that students are actively engaged and faced with challenging learning opportunities. By delving into these themes, students develop a deeper appreciation for their place in the world and how their knowledge and actions can contribute to positive change on both local and global scale
As a culmination of their PYP journey, all Year 5 students actively participate in the PYP Exhibition. The learners draw on all their ATL skills, Learner Profile, conceptual understandings and knowledge to pursue a personal inquiry that includes action and present it to the school community. This significant event provides an opportunity for students to showcase their learning and understanding in a comprehensive manner.
Although our subjects are transdisciplinary and integrate through units of inquiry, we offer the following subjects in the PYP at Beacon Academy.
Mathematics
English
Bahasa
Mandarin/Hindi
Visual Arts
Performing Arts- (music/dance/drama)
Unit of Inquiry (Science & Social Studies)
Physical Education
Personal, Social, Education (PSE)
