The subject goals are to convey information on the knowledge the pupil will gain and the skills that will be developed or practiced. Teaching goals in most cases overlap with the goals of specific school subjects included in the Polish curriculum.

Reaching personal goals means development and discovering by the pupils such traits in themselves as:

Insight — asking questions is helpful in acquiring knowledge, and so is drawing conclusions on the basis of the received answers.

Flexibility — the ability to find oneself in different situations, especially unfavourable ones, and accepting new ideas, roles, and strategies. The ability of unconventional thinking.

Consistency — completing the undertaken actions. The ability to accept failures and undertake new attempts.

Morality — familiarity with moral problems that may appear while discussing various issues, and an approach of accepting other moral standards.

Communicativeness — expressing one’s thoughts freely and the ability to communicate with different tools. Knowledge of more than one language. The ability to communicate with a larger group of recipients.

Reflexion — the ability to notice problems appearing in the course of the learning process and application of various techniques of solving them. Awareness of one’s strengths and developing them, as well as understanding one’s vices and eliminating them.

Openness — the ability to notice different points of view, traditions, and cultures and use them, as well as understanding different types of human behaviour.

Respect — for people, animals and the nature. Understanding and considering the needs of others in one’s actions.

The variety of units makes it necessary to engage in various fields. Some topics will be covered for 6 to 8 weeks, and emphasis will be put e.g. on science with the omission of issues connected with art. Other units, also covered for several weeks, will focus on history and art and will omit scientific problems.

Such an approach to teaching allows focusing on specific problem entirely, without the necessity to shift from one topic to another during successive classes.

Introduction — Every new thematic unit is introduced in an attractive way for the pupil, so that first contact with a new topic inspires interest and curiosity. Thanks to this, the pupils will participate in the learning process eagerly. Depending on the age and needs of the pupils, introduction may take an hour, a day, or even the entire week.

Harvest — At this stage we verify what the pupils know about the discussed topic. It may turn out that there will be a pupil who is particularly interested in the discussed topic and he or she will be able to help others a lot. This stage is very important and helpful as it helps plan activities properly, i.e. so that little time is spent on acquiring the skills that the pupils have mastered already.

Explanation — At this point the teacher discusses the details of the discussed problem.

Acquisition and use of knowledge — It is the main stage of the learning process. Pupils gain knowledge with various methods in different groups, and then use it, demonstrate it, explain it, and share it with others.

Ending — It is the time for summarising and systematising the knowledge gained by the pupils over the past weeks. At this stage the pupils also say goodbye to the topic in the form they choose.

International Primary Curriculum is based on the principle of block teaching, thanks to which the pupils do not switch from one subject to another all the time. Thanks to the application of thematic units, the entire knowledge gained by the pupils is coherent and inter-disciplinary.

The form of the classes is interesting and attractive for the pupils and lets them contribute to them and take active part in them, instead of only being a passive recipient of the messages sent by the teacher.

Thanks to a combination of IPC curriculum and active-learning methods, children do not only acquire knowledge. They also pursue their passions and interests, acquire numerous skills, from teamwork to public speaking and critical thinking, during the classes.