Are You an IB PYP School? The Ultimate Inquiry Toolkit To Support You

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Are You a PYP School?

If you are opening a new PYP programme, welcoming a wave of new-to-PYP teachers this year, or simply looking for a complete resource to anchor your whole staff around concept-based inquiry, this one is for you.

Getting a school off to a strong start with the IB PYP takes more than good intentions. It takes a shared language for the concepts, a shared understanding of the Approaches to Learning skills, and practical, classroom-ready tools that every teacher, from Kindergarten through Grade 5, can pick up and use with confidence.

That is exactly why I built the Ultimate PYP Inquiry Toolkit Bundle.

Toolkit Bundles , Whole School Support for Every Level

The bundles come in two complete sets, so every teacher across your school is supported at their own grade band:

The K-2 IB PYP Inquiry Teaching Toolkit, with over 50 ready-to-use, practical resources built for your youngest inquirers.
The Grades 3-5 IB PYP Inquiry Toolkit, with 104 hands-on, ready-to-go resources covering everything from planning right through to the PYP Exhibition.

Together, these two toolkits give your school a genuinely complete, concept-based inquiry system, ready to open and use tomorrow, in every classroom from your youngest learners right through to your Grade 5 exhibition students.

How These Tools Support the IB PYP Framework

Our transdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning asks a lot of teachers. We are not simply delivering content. We are weaving together concepts and skills so that students construct genuine, transferable understanding. These toolkits were built with that exact goal in mind. Here is how they connect with the framework, piece by piece:

Concept-based planning tools that help teachers move beyond content and start with the question "what concepts live here?", so every unit is built around big, transferable ideas rather than a checklist of facts.
Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills resources that make thinking, research, communication, social and self-management skills visible and explicit, so students are not just doing activities, they are building the transferable skills the PYP asks of them.
Provocation activities designed to spark genuine curiosity and student generated questions right from the start of a unit, giving students real ownership of their own lines of inquiry.
Student agency and voice tools, so children are co-constructing their learning rather than simply receiving it, from goal setting through to reflection.
Assessment and reflection resources that support formative, on-going, student-led assessment, keeping the children's own thinking visible throughout the inquiry.
Explicit teaching paired with implicit practice, so teachers can directly teach a concept or skill and then give students genuine, hands-on opportunities to practise and apply it within real inquiry contexts.
Differentiated, classroom-ready activities across every transdisciplinary theme, so teachers can adapt with confidence for the range of learners in front of them.
PYP Exhibition preparation materials (Grades 3-5) that carry students all the way from their very first unit of inquiry through to their final, independent PYP Exhibition.

In short, these tools support the whole arc of concept-based inquiry: from planning, through explicit teaching of concepts and skills, through implicit practice within real learning experiences, and right through to the provocation that opens each new unit.

Why This Matters for Your Whole School

When every teacher across a school is working from the same toolkit, something wonderful happens. The language of the PYP, the concepts, the ATL skills, the Learner Profile, becomes consistent from classroom to classroom. Students move up through the grades already familiar with how inquiry works, because it has looked and felt the same, year after year. And teachers, especially those new to the PYP, are not left to build everything from scratch alone.

Your Personal Library of Professional Learning

Here is something else worth knowing. 😉By joining the PYP Teaching Tools Annual Membership, you get instant access to tools just like these, delivered straight into your own personal library of professional learning PLUS on-going professional learning through videos, audio and teaching notes.

The Annual Membership gives you:

Instant access to a growing library of classroom-ready, concept-based resources, yours to use again and again.
Fresh strategies for concept-based inquiry, delivered regularly, so your planning stays current and inspired.
Professional learning sessions that walk you through practical, transdisciplinary teaching strategies, grounded in real PYP classrooms.
All the tools to put the learning into practice tomorrow!

Whether you are building your own personal collection or resourcing a whole staff, the annual membership is designed to be the simplest, most cost-effective way in.

Ready to Get Started?

If you are asking yourself, "Are we a PYP school that's truly set up for concept-based inquiry, from Kindergarten right through to our exhibition?", these two toolkits are your answer.

👉 Grab the Grades 3-5 IB PYP Inquiry Toolkit here

👉 Grab the K-2 IB PYP Inquiry Teaching Toolkit here

And if you would like on-going support, fresh strategies and your own personal library of professional learning all year long, come and join us in the Annual Membership too.

Enjoy!

P.S. Whole school licensing is available if you're looking to provide a valuable learning experience in the membership for each of your teachers. Just reach out [email protected] for details.