Empower to Learn – Challenge to Achieve – Inspire to Excel
The Thompson School District offers the International Baccalaureate Programme to its students at three schools. Loveland High School, an IB World School, offers the Diploma Programme at the 11th-12th grades and the Middle Years Programme (candidate status) at the 9th-10th grades. LHS just celebrated its second graduating class of diploma students!
Lucile Erwin Middle School offers the Middle Years Programme (candidate status) for all of its 6th-8th graders.
Coyote Ridge Elementary School is in the beginning stages of the application process for the Primary Years Programme.
IB Mission Statement (via www.ibo.org):
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These 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.