In Lower School classrooms, teaching students how to learn is just as important as teaching the curriculum.
The IB philosophy emphasizes the explicit teaching of these strategies, skills, and attitudes – known as approaches to learning (ATL) – across all of its programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP); the Middle Years Programme (MYP); and the Diploma Programme (DP).
The key IB approaches to learning skills are as follows:
“We chose Ridley College for our daughter because it really stood out as an exceptional school. As a family, we researched many independent and private schools and it was clear that Ridley was the most comprehensive and progressive.”
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IB Primary Years Programme
The Lower School IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) is for students in Junior Kindergarten through Grade 6.
Our teaching process is enhanced by the Ridley College Learning Centre, which offers a variety of support services structured to help students succeed.
With more than 700 students from 60 countries, the largest boarding programme in Ontario and the third largest in Canada, Ridley College is a truly international, co-educational, day and boarding school of the world that prepares students for the world. It has provided enriching learning and life-shaping experiences focused on the arts, academics, and athletics since 1889. Ridley’s Lower School offers JK-Grade 8, its Upper School consists of Grade 9-PG, and Ridley graduates attend some of the top universities and colleges around the world. Ridley is the onlyco-edindependent boarding school in Canada and one of only three in North America authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) continuum programme.