AKA Global Connections
From the school to the world
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The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
International Baccalaureate® Organization
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PYP Programme Model 
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Making Connections
Here at ISM we actively seek and maintain local and global connections with other schools and students around the world:
Global Read Aloud
During October our students have been making connections all around the globe by joining the Global Read Aloud – One Book to Connect the World.
Grade 3-4 Book 
Grade 5 Book
This year our grades 3 – 4 listened to A boy called BAT and grade 5 discovered the story of Amal Unbound. Through Global read aloud we are able to connect with various other classes around the world by using apps like Flipgrid, Seesaw, Skype and Google Docs. This gives our students the opportunity to learn about similarities and differences of opinions, values and norms of children of their own age.
Mystery Skype
Our G5 is taking part in skyping with schools around the world in a friendly guessing competition. It is a global game that gets kids learning about geography, culture, and the similarities and differences of how children live in other parts of the world.
Travelling Tales
We connect, collaborate and create to tell a tale.
Each tale is created in 5 parts. This is based on a Story Mountain.
- Beginning
- Build Up
- Problem/Dilemma
- The resolution
- The ending
A topic/idea is agreed upon. This is being linked to our Units of Learning/Inquiry.
Each class is thinking of using it for a different purpose. Class 1 could be thinking of making it a focus on adjectives. Class 2 could be thinking about using exciting ways to begins sentences/ transition words etc.
Each class/school is assigned a part of the story.