At Fox in the Pine elementary we offer bilingual education to students aged between 6-12.  Students engage in 40 educational hours per week of which half are in Greek and the other half are in English. We follow the National Curriculum with the IB PYP as a framework and vehicle for learning. The National Curriculum outlines the skills and knowledge which will be acquired by the time our children leave elementary school; the PYP is a way of framing learning in order to help children develop academically as well as holistically.

Learning is organised into six ‘Transdisciplinary Themes’ which, alongside the learner profile, provide children opportunities to acquire the knowledge and develop the skills outlined in the National Curriculum with an overall view of creating conscientious global citizens.

Students embark on lines of inquiry stemming from a central idea. Within the context of the Central Ideas, learners acquire the ability to demonstrate and recognize the IB Learner Attributes. The attributes promote learners to be inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced and reflective. The ethos behind the programme is to create lifelong learners who ‘develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect’. The vast majority of the National Curriculum is covered through the framework of the IB PYP, however, where explicit skills teaching is necessary, for example, language and mathematics, this is done within isolated lessons to be then embedded through the lines of inquiry. All compulsory subjects outlined by the National curriculum are integrated and covered through the 6 Transdisciplinary units of inquiry.