UPPER PRIMARY

Through a rigorous international education, we empower our students to become self-directed communicators, collaborators and contributors.

Student inquiry at HKA is purposeful and authentic. Through our Upper Primary programme, students are encouraged to seek out problems and explore viable solutions through every unit of inquiry. By asking questions of personal and shared significance, HKA students build an individual and collective understanding of themselves, one another and their community. Inquiry is built upon meaningful contexts, allowing students to make connections between their learning and local and global opportunities and challenges.

In every classroom, teachers construct positive, caring and engaging cultures anchored by mutual respect. Students develop their identities as members of a learning community, believing that they have the capacity to drive the change they want to see in themselves and their environment.

THE Building blocks of learning

At HKA, the curriculum is designed to encourage students to make connections and apply skills across a variety of contexts. Our teachers use external standards and benchmarks alongside PYP planning frameworks to create grade level expectations and develop units of instruction.

Upper Primary students engage in rich and complex thinking during dedicated mathematics and literacy lessons, with the progression of learning clearly articulated across each grade level. As they weave their knowledge and understanding in these areas into their explorations within each PYP unit of inquiry, students have an opportunity to actively strengthen and apply their thinking as mathematicians and communicators.

Our specialist programmes are designed to further enhance this integrated approach, and in visual arts, music, library, technology, physical education and Mandarin, Upper Primary students are able to develop complementary skill sets that equip them for their learning journeys to come.

OUT OF the classroom and into the world

A key feature of our programme is the emphasis we place on students taking their learning beyond the classroom. HKA students begin to grow their identities as global citizens from a young age, and they become empowered to act with the recognition that they can make a difference in the lives of those around them. Through exhibitions, performances and assemblies, students learn how important each individual’s contribution is towards a collective goal. They are able to apply a wide range of skills and dispositions to their interactions with local organisations, through which they begin to see their potential for influencing their wider communities in positive ways.

Rigorous international Education

THE PYP EXHIBITION AT HKA

For our Grade 5 student leaders, the PYP exhibition is the culmination of their learning and growth as Primary School students at HKA. The PYP exhibition provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning, to synthesize and apply their learning from previous years and to take authentic and personal action. Students explore global issues through the lenses of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and are supported by teachers, mentors, parents and other HKA community members to inquire, analyse and act in personally relevant ways.

TRANSITIONING TO SECONDARY SCHOOL

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UPPER PRIMARY

THE Building blocks of learning

OUT OF the classroom and into the world

Rigorous international Education

THE PYP EXHIBITION AT HKA

TRANSITIONING TO SECONDARY SCHOOL

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