Secondary School
The Middle School Programme for students aged 11–16 integrates the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme with Kazakhstani educational standards, fostering creative skills, critical thinking, and global awareness.
5–9
Grades
11–16
Age Range
8
Educational Areas
6
Global Contexts
Programme Overview
Developing Creative, Critical, and Globally Aware Learners
The Programme encourages students to develop their own creative skills, critical thinking, and ability to understand connections between learning subjects and the real world.
A special attention is paid to communication skills, intercultural understanding, and global interaction — qualities which form a successful person within the conditions of the rapidly changing modern world.
Curriculum
Eight Educational Areas
In accordance with the IB Middle Years Programme requirements, there are eight educational areas in the current curricula for each grade.
English, Kazakh, Russian
Second languages: Kazakh, English, Russian and French
Comprehensive mathematical studies across all grades
Natural studies, Chemistry, Physics, Biology
History of Kazakhstan, World History, Human Rights and Society, Geography, Economy and Business
Computer technologies and Digital Design
Visual and Performing Arts
Physical development and well-being
Global Contexts
Learning Through Global Perspectives
The content of educational programmes is considered through the prism of key and subject-specific concepts, ideas, and issues of global significance.
Globalization and sustainability
Fairness and development
Identities and relationships
Orientation in space and time
Personal and cultural expression
Scientific and technical innovation
Programme Features
What Makes Our Programme Distinctive
The Personal Project
The culmination of the Middle School Programme is the compulsory Personal Project for Grade 9 students. Students choose a topic based on their own interests and needs.
The project reflects a student's understanding of global contexts and their ability for independent learning.
When assessing the project, primary attention is paid to the level of skills used by the student in their work.
The Personal Project is not a final work on a certain subject — it demonstrates growth across all areas of learning.
Pathway Forward
From MYP to Diploma Programme
Grade 9 completes the international school level integrated educational programme with optional external final examination in subjects from each IB subject group, leading to the certificate of completion and preparation for the IB Diploma Programme (Grades 11–12).