INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL IN MONZA

11-16 years old

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The International School of Monza offers the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) which is the next step in the IB continuum of international education.
 

The MYP builds on the foundations acquired in Elementary school, encouraging students to become independent, internationally minded, and lifelong learners. Students aged 11 to 16 follow the IB Middle Years Programme which offers an educational approach that embraces yet transcends traditional school subjects. While studying disciplines form eight subject groups, the MYP accentuates their inter-relatedness and so advances a holistic view of knowledge.

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The MYP offers a highly challenging and future-focused education rooted in inquiry based learning. The teaching team at ISMonza bring their classrooms to life by providing exciting concept-driven experiences where students must solve problems that are relevant to the world today. The curriculum is extremely rigorous and develops lifelong skills that are critical for success beyond school years. In particular, the community project and personal project give students the opportunity to develop as well-rounded, mature and responsible citizens of the world.

— Vicki Mole, MYP Coordinator

MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME (MYP)

The International School offers the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) which is the next step in the IB continuum of international education. The MYP builds on the foundations acquired in Elementary school, encouraging students to become independent, internationally minded, and lifelong learners.

From the ages of 11 to 16, students at the International School of Monza follow the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IBMYP). The Middle Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate encourages students to make links between their studies and the real world. The MYP Curriculum includes 8 study areas and provides a broad, balanced education for the adolescent years.
 

OUR HOLISTIC OFFER

Our programme has been created to encourage students to take increasing responsibility for their own learning process, assuming awareness and using the knowledge and skills acquired, and their personal talents, autonomously.

Autonomy is the key that will enable students to apply what they have learned concretely and to evaluate the information they receive critically.

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At IS Monza, students develop their intellectual capacities and their awareness with the help of the scientific, IT and art laboratories. At the centre of the teaching activities, however, are the extra-curricular activities. These aim to include and, at the same time, go beyond the traditional subjects to emphasize their interdisciplinary nature. Students are therefore led to develop a “holistic” vision of knowledge.

All of our students receive a rich curriculum which is comprehensive and challenging, helping students build a strong foundation in the major subject areas as well as several foreign languages. Skills are developed alongside knowledge, and the students become thoughtful, creative and valuable members of the International and Italian communities. Our educators are caring and experienced and are aware that students in this age group need security, support and success.

By connecting with local and global communities, our IB programme encourages every student to experience learning both in, and out of the classroom.

CURRICULUM

Our aim is to deliver an International Education and at the same time, as for the primary school, we provide the important elements of the Italian State Curriculum. In these three years of middle school we take the Italian Scuola Media Programme and integrate it into the MYP programme so that Italian students are prepared for the end-of-year State Italian Exams which they invariably do superbly well in. Our international students in the main do not sit the Italian state examinations unless they wish to.

The MYP curriculum is organised around eight traditional subject areas:
 

ARTS INDIVIDUALS & SOCIETIES LANGUAGE & LITERATURE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION MATHEMATICS PHYSICAL & HEALTH EDUCATION SCIENCE DESIGN
Art, Music, Drama History, Geography, Economics, UN sustainable Development Goals English, Italian English, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin Mathematics extended, Mathematics     Biology, Chemistry, Physics Product design, Digital design