Play with purpose
Children investigate, imagine, negotiate and build understanding through meaningful play.
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Play with purpose.
Grow for life.
Learning is active, joyful and connected to real life. Children investigate questions, make choices, test theories, create, communicate and reflect.
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Our pedagogy
Follow the question
Curiosity leads to observation, conversation, experimentation and new connections.
Make learning visible
Educators document, reflect on and extend each child’s ideas, strengths and progress.
Grow in relationship
Trust, belonging, collaboration and empathy create the conditions for learning.
Primary Years Programme · Early Years
Ideas connect.
Understanding grows.
For ages 3-6, the PYP places the child at the centre of a transdisciplinary learning journey.
Central ideas and lines of inquiry help children connect language, mathematics, science, the arts, wellbeing and social understanding. Educators guide inquiry while children exercise voice, choice and ownership.
01Who we are
02Where we are in place & time
03How we express ourselves
04How the world works
05How we organize ourselves
06Sharing the planet
Our candidacy
Skill Stork Early Learning School is a Candidate School for the Primary Years Programme and is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted.
Programme of Inquiry
A journey of discovery and growth
Big ideas,
made meaningful.
Our Nursery, PP-1 and PP-2 Programme of Inquiry maps age-appropriate central ideas, concepts and learning connections across the year.
What inquiry looks like as children grow
From wondering to action
The same big idea.
Deeper each year.
Inquiry is carefully calibrated to children’s language, experience and independence. It is never a miniature version of older-school learning.
Notice and name
Children explore through their senses, talk about what they observe and represent ideas through play, movement and drawing.
Connect and compare
Children gather information, notice patterns, listen to other perspectives and test ideas together.
Explain and act
Children use growing literacy and mathematics to communicate understanding, make decisions and take meaningful action.
The whole child
Five connected domains
Mind, body,
heart and independence.
Children do not experience development in separate boxes. Every thoughtfully planned experience supports several domains at once.
Cognitive
Thinking, memory, investigation and problem-solving
Language
Listening, speaking, early literacy and expression
Social-emotional
Belonging, empathy, confidence and self-regulation
Physical
Fine motor, gross motor, balance and coordination
Adaptive
Independence, routines, self-care and decision-making
Learning beyond subjects
Language & literacy
Stories, conversations, rhyme, mark-making, reading and many ways to communicate.
Early mathematics
Pattern, number, space, measure and reasoning discovered through real experiences.
STREAM & inquiry
Building, testing, observing and solving through science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
Visual & performing arts
Painting, making, music, movement, dance, drama and open-ended expression.
Physical development
Outdoor exploration, swimming, movement challenges, sport and confident risk-taking.
Sensory exploration
Sand, water, clay, light, texture, loose parts and delightfully messy discovery.
Observation, documentation and reflection
Progress made
visible.
Educators observe children closely, document significant moments, reflect with colleagues and plan meaningful next steps. Families receive everyday updates, monthly newsletters, Unit of Inquiry communication and regular conferences.
- Developmentally appropriate observation
- Child voice and reflection
- Learning stories and portfolios
- Shared next steps with families
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Your child’s remarkable beginning can start here.
Meet our educators, explore the learning spaces and experience the calm, joyful rhythm of a Skill Stork day.