IB World School
From August 2025, BST will start delivering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) to students in Years 12 and 13.
What is IB?
The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a not-for-profit foundation, motivated by its mission to create a better world through education. It aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. IB 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.
What is IBDP?
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) is an assessed programme for students aged 16 to 19. It is respected by leading universities across the globe.
The Diploma Programme (DP) curriculum is made up of six subject groups and the DP core, comprising theory of knowledge (TOK), creativity, activity, service (CAS) and the extended essay.
Through the DP core, students reflect on the nature of knowledge, complete independent research and undertake a project that often involves community service.
© International Baccalaureate Organization 2018
Why IBDP?
International research shows that there are many benefits to choosing IBDP.
For example:
- DP students enrol, persist and graduate at higher rates than the national average in a study about postsecondary outcomes of DP graduates in the United States.
- IB students studying at higher education institutions in the United Kingdom have greater odds of achieving positive higher education outcomes than their A-level peers, according to a study comparing student performance.
- On average, DP alumni reported higher capacities for a variety of 21st-century skills compared to their non-DP counterparts according to a study in Asia-Pacific.
IB Learner Profile
The IB learner profile is the IB mission statement translated into a set of learning outcomes for the 21st century.
As IB learners we strive to be:
- inquirers
- knowledgeable
- thinkers
- communicators
- principled
- open-minded
- caring
- risk-takers
- balanced
- reflective
© International Baccalaureate Organization 2018
