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The IB programmes incorporate quality practice from national and international research and the IB global community. They encourage students to be internationally-minded, within a complex and hyper-connected world.
WIS offers 3 high – quality IB Programmes, which:
Informed by values described in the IB Learner Profile, WIS students strive to become inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective.
These attributes represent a broad range of human capacities and responsibilities that go beyond intellectual development and academic success.
Throughout all IB programmes, students develop approaches to learning skills and the attributes of the IB learner profile. Students are able to take responsibility for their own learning and understand how knowledge itself is constructed. Students are encouraged to try different approaches to learning and to take responsibility for their own educational progress.
The IB Primary Years Programme – PYP, is a transdisciplinary, inquiry-based and student-centred education with responsible action at its core. Through the PYP, students experience learning that is engaging, significant, challenging and relevant as it spans between, across and beyond traditional subject boundaries.
The IB Middle Years Programme – MYP is designed for students aged 11 to 16 years; at WIS this is from Years 7-11. It provides a framework of learning that encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers.
The IB Diploma Programme – DP is a 2 year pre-university course open to students between the ages of 16 to 19 years; leading either to the IB Diploma or to separate subject courses, depending on the student’s plans for further education
Westwood International School is an English medium international school in Gaborone, Botswana. It was founded in 1988 with sponsorship from the American and British governments and in collaboration with the Botswana Ministry of Education.
