International Baccalaureate (IB)®
Fairmont Private School of Fresno is an International Baccalaureate® World School. We are authorized to offer the IB Primary Years Program. We provide a premier early childhood education that honors the whole child and fosters true student agency from the very start.
The International Baccalaureate Mission Statement
The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP)
Our school is proud to be an IB World School, offering the Primary Years Programme (PYP). The PYP helps children become curious thinkers, caring community members, and global citizens. Through hands-on learning, inquiry, and reflection, students learn to take ownership of their learning and take action to make the world a better place.
What Is the IB PYP?
The PYP is an internationally recognized program for students ages 3–12 that focuses on developing the whole child—academically, socially, and emotionally. The PYP helps students learn by exploring big ideas, asking questions, solving real-world problems, and connecting learning across subjects.
The IB Learner Profile
The PYP develops students who are: Inquirers, Thinkers, Communicators, Caring, Open-Minded, Knowledgeable, Principled, Balanced, Risk-Takers, Reflective.
These Learner attributes are the "heartbeat" of the PYP curriculum, and help our students grow into compassionate, curious leaders who are ready to make a positive difference in the world! Each month we highlight a specific IB attribute. Our teachers lead focused lessons and inquiry-based play designed to promote the attributes in the classroom, the garden, and at home. At the conclusion of each month, we celebrate our youngest learners who have demonstrated the attributes in their own unique ways.
What Students Learn:
PYP Program of Inquiry (POI)
Each Program of Inquiry shows the units our students explore at each grade level. These units help students investigate important world themes and connect learning across subjects.
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Exploring what it means to be human—our beliefs, relationships, health, and what makes us unique.
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Studying our personal histories, family stories, explorations, and how people and places change over time.
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Understanding how people share ideas, feelings, and creativity through language, art, music, movement, and culture.
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Investigating the natural world and how it works—including science, energy, forces, and how humans use scientific principles.
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Examining how communities, systems, and organizations are structured—like governments, businesses, jobs, and rules.
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Learning about living things, resources, environments, and how we work together to solve conflicts and care for our planet.
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