Taipei Kuei Shan School 奎山學校

Primary Years Program
(G1-5)

Primary Years Program (G1-5)

Where Curiosity
Meets Discovery

Since our authorization to implement the IB PYP in 2014, Kuei Shan has tirelessly (faithfully) developed the program to make it future-focused for students to be able to respond to the challenges and opportunities in our rapidly changing complex world as lifelong learners. Our program evolves mainly in areas of inquiry, transdisciplinary learning, conceptual understanding, and dual-language immersion.

Learning through Inquiry

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Inquiry, as the leading pedagogical approach of the Kuei Shan PYP, recognizes the importance that students actively involve in their own learning by taking resp...

Building Conceptual Understanding

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The six themes of the PYP are already models of application of using concepts for organizing the entire Program of Inquiry (the school curriculum). Concepts are...

Learning through Transdisciplinary Themes

Learning through

Transdisciplinary Themes

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Transdisciplinary learning unifies learning in all subjects and focuses on personal and social significance. Regardless of where PYP learners are in the world a...

Kuei Shan
Dual-Language Immersion

Kuei Shan

Dual-Language Immersion

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Wittgenstein (1921)

Student Language Profile

The Kuei Shan student language profile now (2024) has changed significantly compared to what was in 2013 shown on the left. The August 2024 elementary PYP enrol...