Primary Years Programme
Curriculum framework
The exhibition
Students aged 10 to 12 who are in their final year of the programme are expected to carry out an extended, collaborative inquiry project, know as the exhibition, under the guidance of their teachers.
The exhibition represents a significant event in the life of both the school and student, synthesizing the essential elements of the programme and sharing them with the whole school community. It is an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the student profile that have been developing throughout their engagement with the programme. It is a culminating experience marking the transition from the PYP to the Middle Years Programme (MYP).
Schools are given considerable flexibility in their choice of the real-life issues or problems to be explored and investigated in the exhibition.
Find out more
Read the Schools’ Guide to the Primary Years Programme [984 kb, PDF] for more information about how the programme is structured.
Read A Basis for Practice: the Primary Years Programme [118 kb, PDF] for more information about the aims and philosophy of the programme.
Read A Continuum of International Education [251 kb, PDF] for more information on the place of the PYP in the IB’s coherent sequence of education for students aged 3 to 19.
Programme standards and practices [168 kb, PDF].
Order IB publications relating to the Primary Years Programme.

