Impington Village College – extending the IB model of creativity, activity and service to involve students from Years 7 to 13

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Impington Village College (IVC) is proud to have been an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School for over 25 years. Our international sixth form has students from 27 countries, from Brazil to the United States, and 20 different first languages, including Korean, Norwegian and Tagalog. We believe that the IB Diploma (IBDP) and Careers Programme (IBCP) provide a wonderful curriculum framework for our students to develop into inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people, able to create a better and more peaceful world, as set out in the IB mission statement (International Baccalaureate, 2019). The central components of the IB learner profile – the extended essay, theory of knowledge study and creativity, activity and service (CAS) elements – encompass a curriculum structure with tremendous breadth and detail. Tom Sherrington, in his book The Learning Rainforest, praised the values-driven intent of the IB and how these values should translate into a whole-school context (S

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