Our IB Evaluation Journey: Growing and Shining Together

A Community Adventure at Tunas Muda School Kedoya

When we started our IB evaluation journey, we knew it would take all of us – teachers, staff, parents, and especially our students – to show who we are as a school. This wasn’t just a task and journey for school leaders; it was a chance for our whole school family to see what we do well and what we can do better.

Everyone Has a Voice

What made this journey special was how everyone joined in. Parents shared their thoughts in surveys and meetings. Teachers opened their classrooms’ doors, minds, and hearts. Staff members showed how they support learning every day. And our students – the real heart of our PYP programme – proudly showed their learning and shared what makes our school special to them.

Looking at Our School Through Four Windows

During our evaluation, we looked closely at four important areas:

1. Culture:
We developed, reviewed, and saw how our school policies aren’t just words on paper – they’re the living practices that shape who we are. From the way we greet each other in the morning to how we solve problems together, our culture shows in everything we do.

2. Environment:
We explored how our learning environment – classrooms, playgrounds, areas around the school, and even our virtual spaces – help children learn. A good learning environment is beyond furniture and facilities – it’s about creating spaces where everyone feels safe to ask questions, make mistakes, and grow.

3. Purpose:
Our school pedagogical leaders worked hard to connect our school’s vision & mission with the IB vision & mission. We want to shape young people who have international-mindedness and embody the IB Learner Profile attributes – young people who understand different perspectives, care about the world, and show the IB learner profile attributes like being caring, open-minded, and reflective.

4. Learning:
Ensuring a coherent curriculum that organizes learning and teaching within and across the years of its IB PYP programme including identifying, designing and fostering lifelong learners and an inclusive school to shape agentic learners, and approaches to teaching help students learn important things from year to year. We focused on creating lifelong learners who know how to find answers to their questions and who feel included and valued.

Our Special Focus: Differentiation – Learning That Works for Everyone

Our school programme development plan focus was about differentiation, that involves everyone to take part in ensuring the students’ learning is meaningful, engaging, and significant, and at the same time accessible for all learners. The preparation itself was including a long journey with some challenges; during the covid pandemic that we have to overcome, and involving collecting and analysing data from surveys, interviews, questionnaires, and living evidence from different stakeholders. In the end, it’s a very meaningful journey for our school community, and we received very good and meaningful results and feedback that will help us to move forward and build the next pathways until our next evaluation cycle in the next 5 years.

We thank everyone for their support, actions, time, dedications, and love to the school by engaging, enriching our learning community to be the best that we can be, as our school motto “Nurturing growth together” – “…everyone’s a shining star!”