Middle Years Program
The Soundview School Middle Years Program (*MYP*; ages eleven through thirteen) is built on three basic truths of early adolescence.
Students need plenty of opportunities to build and nurture strong relationships with teachers and peers.
Middle School students learn skills and concepts best with a relevant, challenging interdisciplinary curriculum that allows them to make important connections between the academic disciplines and applications in their own lives and the world.
The right environment for middle school students is highly flexible with time for exploration, and is free from unnecessary disruptions and transitions.
“IB graduates move with ease in a diverse and global university that demands intercultural skill and adaptability. [They have] engaged in the kind of rigorous work that is likely to help them become not just an outstanding college student and citizen of the world, but an exceptional one.” P. Horne, Purdue University, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management“
The Middle Years Program consists of ten interrelated classes:
Class projects and assessments are designed to be interdisciplinary (interweaving two or more disciplines). Each unit of study is designed to develop subject-specific skills and concepts, in addition to exploring the essential and debatable questions of each discipline. The work of the subject areas becomes applicable and relevant through overarching global contexts which include identities and relationships, orientation in time and space, personal and cultural expression, scientific and technical innovation, globalization and sustainability, as well as fairness and development. Read more in this excerpt from the Family Handbook.