About IB

　According to IB website, the International Baccalaureate (IB) offers a continuum of international education through four challenging, high quality educational programmes to students aged 3 to 19. Their programmes encourage both personal development and academic achievement challenging students to think critically, to ask the right questions and think across disciplines. An IB education also fosters diversity, curiosity and a healthy appetite for learning. Schools must be authorized to teach our IB programmes. Every school authorized to offer IB programmes is known as an IB world school.

IB Programmes

　In IB Programmes, there are four programmes called PYP(Primary Years Programme), MYP(Middle Years Programme), DP(Diploma Programme), and CP(Career-related Programme). These four programmes are separeted by the age. Diploma Programme is the oldest programme and first offered is in 1968.

Municipal Omiya International Secondary School

　Mois is a public school in Saitama City. This school This school has Middle years program and Diploma program. Middle years program is IB program for 12 years-16 years old students. Diploma program is IB program for 17 years-18 years old students. In MOIS, Everyone take Middle Years Program, but students can choose if go to DP course or not.

Interview to MOIS student

I interviewed four third grade MOIS students and ask questions about MOIS.

Q. What subject in MOIS do you like the most?

A. I like Design and music class. Last lesson, we played the game in design(technical art) lesson. It was very fun. Also, we’re doing a choral ensemble with own laptop individually. I think it’s effective to learn own part individually.

Q. What kind of class in MOIS do you enjoy?

A. I enjoy discussing with groupmates. In MOIS, we have a lot of discussion time, especially in japanese class. We can get different idea from different perspectives in discussion, so it’s very interesting.

Q. Do you have test week?

A. No. We don’t have a test week. Instead of it, we have many homework and small tests. In math classes, there are mainly tests for each unit. Though we can call it ‘small’ test, it usually take about an hour. It’s a long test…

Q. What do you like best about MOIS?

A. I like 3G, an original subject in MOIS. It’s based on school precepts (Grit, Growth, and Global). We can choose the theme of the project, so each student can research what he or she wants to learn. It’s important to think about contributing to solve the social issues too, so we can learn about the world and society through it. 3G makes me grow.

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