Guiding Philosophy

The Homeroom curriculum can be divided into four sections; ‘Looking After Me’, ‘Study Skills’, ‘Personal Project’ & ‘Community & Service’. There is equal emphasis on the student developing their study skills, meeting the various components of the Middle Years Programme and on the student developing life skills and learning about how to progress safely and happily into adulthood. The programme will support students as they work through the process of making decisions for their future.


Study Skills

The Homeroom programme fits into the MYP by ensuring that ‘Approaches to Learning’ are actively taught as part of the Homeroom period. We will work on developing the students’ study skills that students will depend on to get them through M5 such as organisation, time management, prioritising, presenting, planning and reflecting.


Looking After Me

Working on the premise that students are also human beings that are learning about where they fit into the world, time is allocated on giving the students the opportunities to learn about, discuss and reflect upon life challenges that they may come across. The emphasis is on helping the student to stay safe and stay happy as they mature and grow. Because of the nature of this subject, we may revisit material that students were exposed to in M4, but at a greater depth appropriate to M5 maturity level. M5 students will cover; decision making techniques, making smart decisions, managing change, sex education, managing conflict, dealing with stress, depression and life skills (budgeting & managing cash).


Community & Service

An integral aspect of the Middle Years Programme is ‘Community & Service’, where students are expected to make an impact on the neighboring communities and or regional communities by sharing their ideas & donating their time. During M5, students will need to ensure that they work to fulfil the MYP requirements and that the documentation is developed throughout the year.


Personal Project

During the fifth year of the Middle Years Programme, students have to complete a personal project and write up their learning experience in the form of an essay. In support of the student’s undertaking of the Personal Project, some Homeroom time is allocated to the tutoring of the project and on developing the skills necessary to complete the Personal Project successfully.