Webinar: Connect to a global view of early learning with the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate

About This Webinar

Join this panel discussion to discover how the IB Primary Years Programme Early Years (PYP) can enrich your curriculum and enhance best practice with children from the age of three to six.
Find out about the key components of the PYP and how its focus on the importance of children being free to learn through play means that the EYFS can be aligned with its learning aims. Gain insights into how it offers the best of international learning and supports your team’s professional development and retention.
Take the opportunity to ask questions to understand how the programme could work in your own nursery or setting.

Timings: 13:00 - 14:00

International Baccalaureate
Founded in 1968, the International Baccalaureate (IB) pioneered a movement of international education and now offers four high-quality, challenging educational programmes to students aged 3-19. The IB gives students distinct advantages by providing strong foundations, critical thinking skills, and proficiency for solving complex problems while encouraging diversity, curiosity, and a healthy appetite for learning and excellence. In a world where asking the right questions is as important as discovering answers, the IB champions critical thinking and flexibility in study by crossing disciplinary, cultural and national boundaries. Supported by world-class educators and coordinators, the IB currently engages with more than two million students in over 5,500 schools across 160 countries.

To find out more, please click here:
IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) in the early years - International Baccalaureate®

Presenters

Gemma Goldenberg (chair)

Gemma is an expert in education and research-informed practice, with 2 decades of experience in learning and psychology. She has worked as an Assistant Headteacher, Curriculum designer, Research and Learning Specialist for the Chartered College of teaching, and most recently – as a PhD researcher investigating the impact of early learning environments on children’s stress, attention and behaviour. Founder of Nestkids.co.uk which supports educators and parents in using neuroscience-informed approaches, she is a published author and journalist who frequently writes and presents on a range of educational topics.
Instagram: @phd_and_three @nestkids.co.uk

Ingrid Mccormack

Ingrid has lived and worked in schools in the UK, Africa and the Middle East. She has been a classroom educator, early years lead, primary principal and pedagogical coach. These roles have sparked continued passion for inquiry based, conceptually led learning and teaching engendering collaboration and purposeful education – all factors that are at the core of the IB Primary Years Programme.

Ingrid now works as an Education Consultant. She has served on a number of committees to advocate the student/child being at the heart of planning, learning and teaching.

Coaching and leading educators has been driven by the desire for them to guide students no matter their age, to fully achieve their potential.

As an early years lead and primary principal, it has been a privilege to co-design early childhood settings and develop learning environments that provide the backdrop to holistic learning.

Jan Dubiel

Jan Dubiel is a nationally and internationally recognised specialist in Early Childhood Education. He was recently identified by the Times Educational Supplement as one of the ten most influential people in British education and was previously Head of National and International development at Early Excellence. He has worked as a YN, YR and Y1 teacher, Senior leader, Consultant and adviser and national lead on the management of the (Early Years) Foundation Stage Profile with QCA. Jan has written widely on different aspects of Early Years policy ,pedagogy and practice. His first book “Effective Assessment in the EYFS” was published by SAGE in 2014.

Kelsey Winocour

Kelsey Winocour has been an educator and administrator for 25 years with work spanning the United States, Spain, Japan, and Hong Kong. She is deeply passionate about the International Baccalaureate program and has been able to work in both the MYP and PYP programs as a Teacher, Head of Year, House Director, IB Coordinator, and Curriculum Director. She has led training and curriculum development workshops for various global audiences.

Over the past three years, she successfully led the PYP IB authorization process at the Temple Emanu-El Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) in Dallas, Texas where the Reggio Emilia philosophy was aligned with the IB PYP framework to create a most unique, authentically constructivist, learner-centered, playful-inquiry based model for early childhood education. Kelsey is a focused advocate for teachers, learners, and education for a better future. She is excited to share her insights into the early years in the PYP with you!

Dr Peter Fidczuk

IB Development and Recognition Manager, UK and Ireland

Peter is the UK Manager for the International Baccalaureate, supporting schools, teachers and students in their development of an IB education. Additionally, Peter works closely with UK universities and government on the recognition of IB programmes. Prior to joining the IB, Peter was Assistant Headteacher at Dartford Grammar School, where as Director of International Baccalaureate he managed the school’s Diploma Programme and the introduced the Middle Years Programme so that the school became the first state school in the UK to become accredited for the MYP.