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Brazil, Rio De Janeiro
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Exhibition PYP is a major group investigative project in the final year of the Primary Years Programme. Students develop a complete Investigative Unit on a self-chosen, challenging topic. They present the five essential elements and demonstrate how each student has developed IB Learner Profile attributes: Investigative, Knowledgeable, Thinker, Communicator, Audacious, Principled, Caring, Open-minded, Balanced, and Reflective. The Exhibition is open to the entire school community.
The campus includes dedicated spaces for performing arts, including a ballet room and a space for dance, with an auditorium stage that hosts events and graduations. Ballet and dance are offered as activities within the timetable, and theatre is also part of the arts program. Workshops and hands-on arts activities occur in spaces designed for workshops and creative projects.
Languages taught include English, German, and Spanish. English is taught with five weekly classes, and bilingual instruction occurs in the IB Diploma Programme. Students prepare for Cambridge exams (Starters and Movers), and the school is officially certified as a Cambridge Exam Preparation Center, with certificates available from Goethe for German and Cervantes for Spanish.
In the 2nd through 5th years, extracurricular activities include Judo or Capoeira, Soccer or Dance, Swimming, Hands-on Crafts, and Library sessions. These activities are integrated into the school timetable alongside core subjects. They promote social skills, collaboration and personal development.
The Primary Years Programme includes a Student Agency component. Students have a voice to ask questions, a choice to decide how they learn, and responsibility for their learning and actions. The teacher acts as a facilitator, helping students develop self-regulation, self-monitoring, self-instruction, and lifelong learning dispositions.
The school provides spaces for sport and leisure, including a covered sports court, a synthetic grass field, a sand field, and a swimming pool. There are dedicated spaces for judo and ballet, and an auditorium with a stage for events. The timetable blends curricular classes with sports and artistic activities to support physical activity and well-being.
CIEI is an IB World School in Rio de Janeiro offering the Primary Years Programme and the Diploma Programme for students aged 4 to 18. The school day runs from 8:00 to 16:45 and incorporates learning in Portuguese, English, German, and Spanish, with English-language instruction used for Diploma subjects in the High School. The campus sits on about 10,000 square meters in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, surrounded by nature, and features modular buildings in Swiss chalet style, air conditioned classrooms, and verandas. Facilities include science labs, a computer room, a library, a culinary/experimental kitchen, a dance studio, a judo room, a stage, a pool, and multiple outdoor spaces. CIEI emphasizes inquiry, intercultural understanding, and sustainable attitudes through an integrated schedule that blends academics, sports, and arts. The school is certified as a Cambridge Exam Preparation Centre, and the Exhibition PYP project anchors its inquiry in the final year of primary school.
