KINDERGARDEN AND THE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Kindergarten and MES primary school follow Russian national curriculum and the curriculum for initial stage of education at International Baccalaureate Organization known as the "The Primary Years Programme"(PYP).

UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CURRICULUM

Curriculum of MES primary school presumes that the students study the school material by means of research work done in cooperation with each other and the teachers. It is a model worked out by the best teachers of world's International schools. Three interrelated questions make up the frame of the model: What do we want to learn? How best will we learn? How will we know what we have learned?

The aims of the Curriculum are expressed as a series of desired attributes and dispositions that characterize successful students of MES primary school. By the end of education the children become:

• Inquirers
• Thinkers
• Communicators
• Risk-takers
• Knowledgeable
• Principled
• Caring
• Open-minded
• Well-balanced
• Reflective

Transdisciplinary Inquiry

At the heart of MES primary school is a commitment to structured inquiry as an ideal vehicle for learning. Teachers and students are guided by a series of basic questions as they design curriculum units for exploration and study:

• Who we are?
• Where we are in place and time?
• How we express ourselves?
• How the world works?
• How we organize ourselves?
• Sharing the planet?