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November & December 2025

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TMSE IB Newsletter

November/December 2025

IB Primary Years Programme
Approaches to Learning:

Approaches to Learning (ATLs) are the skills students develop that help them become independent, lifelong learners and apply their learning across all areas of life.

Social Skills
  • Developing positive interpersonal relationships and collaboration skills
  • Developing social-emotional intelligence
Thinking Skills
  • Critical-thinking skills
  • Creative-thinking skills
  • Transfer Skills
  • Reflection/metacognitive skills
Research Skills
  • Information-literacy skills
  • Media literacy skills
  • Ethical use of media/information
Communication Skills
  • Exchanging-information Skills
  • Literacy skills
  • Oral, visual, and written communication
  • ICT (information & communication technology) skills
Self Management Skills
  • Organization skills
  • States of mind

 

IB Mission Statement:

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.