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The middle years programme (MYP) is designed for student between the ages of 11 and 16 . This period, encompassing early puberty and mid-adolescence, is a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development. Such a time of uncertainty, sensitivity, susceptibility, resistance and questioning requires an educational programme that will help students develop the knowledge, attitudes and skill they need to participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated world. In so doing, learning how to learn and how to evaluate information critically is as important as the content of the disciplines themselves.

The IBO is keenly interested in the development of ethics and values in young people. Not willing to prescribe for all the moral code of any one group, the IBO nonetheless is concerned that students develop a personal value system by which to guide their own lives as decent and thoughtful members of local communities and the world beyond.

Both the PYP and MYP offer a great deal to international school. They are both devoted to educating the whole child and to builling questioning, research, cultural awareness and personal development into the programme.

It not only challenges students academically, but also it encourages them to take responsibility for their own progress and to make a commitment to the future of others while pursuing their personal goals.

Introducing the MYP is a major undertaking, but we feel it is essential. It allows us to work closely with other international schools. It gives us a flexible curriculum which we can adapt to our own students here in Egypt. We are able to device a very strict assessment procedure that incorporates written, oral research, presentation and personal skills. All that we do will be moderated by the IBO so our high standards will be maintained.

Green Land School feels that by offering the complete IB continuum, we not only offer the best possible education to our students, we also prepare them for university and personal success in the future.