The International Middle Years Curriculum

The International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC) is a structured, rigorous, exciting tool to support improved learning, student engagement, international mindedness and personal development for 11-14 year olds. Offering 30 interdependent themes and subject-driven units, the IMYC is a jargon-free resource for teachers and a cost effective solution for schools looking for ways to improve learning. Click here to request your free IMYC Information Pack.

Rollover the three big challenges below to learn more about the IMYC.

CHALLENGE 1

Can you help us provide our middle school students with the kinds of learning children have when their schools use the IPC?

Solution 1

A curriculum for 21st Century Learning!

Based on explicit knowledge, skills and understanding learning goals

Interlinking subjects and themes coherently

Using best brain research

Linking the modern world and the past

Internationally minded

Rigorous

Integrated assessment

CHALLENGE 2

Can you help us do interesting stuff, please?
Can you help us keep learning interesting for our middle school students?

Solution 2

Interesting stuff!

Centred around the active development of skills

Vital themes and big ideas that students will recognise as valid and engaging

Journalling to encourage reflection and understanding

Linking the modern world and the past

Exciting unit exit points built around six key media activities

CHALLENGE 3

Can you do this in a way that doesn't make us change the entire structure of our school or the way we organise ourselves?

Solution 3

Not too much structural change

No major change in subject teaching structure

Teachers collaborate together at the beginning and end of each unit

Comprehensive Teacher Support File and membership programme