Diploma Programme

Jason Blackstone - IB Diploma Program Coordinator

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is an optional two-year program for the academically motivated student in Grades 11 and 12. It has been adopted by more than 1,355 schools around the world and is designed to facilitate admission to universities worldwide. The IB Coordinator assists students in planning their programs and monitors their progress.

The curriculum contains six subject groups together with a core made up of three separate parts.

Students study six subjects selected from the subject groups. Normally three subjects are studied at higher level (courses representing 240 teaching hours), and the remaining three subjects are studied at standard level (courses representing 150 teaching hours).

All three parts of the core — extended essay, theory of knowledge and creativity, action, service — are compulsory and are central to the philosophy of the Diploma Programme.

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