The International Baccalaureate (IB) is an educational foundation founded in 1968 that offers four challenging educational programs to over 1 million students aged 3 to 19 globally. It started as a pre-university program and now also offers the Middle Years Program (ages 11-16) and Primary Years Program (ages 3-11). Lyceum-School 6 is an IB world school authorized to deliver the IB Diploma Program aiming to offer IB programs across ages. The school's vision is to produce internationally-minded and culturally aware students who challenge themselves and use future technologies, with parents as partners. The school's core values include love of learning, knowledge, citizenship, cultural identity, and international-mindedness.

1. Introducing the International Baccalaureate
The History of the IB
The International Baccalaureate® (IB) is a non-profit educational foundation, motivated by its mission,
focused on the student. Founded in 1968, it started as a pre-university curriculum and a common set of
external examinations for students in schools throughout the world that evolved into the IB Diploma
Programme (DP). In 1994 the IB added the Middle Years Programme (MYP) for students aged 11 to 16, and
in 1997 it adopted the Primary Years Programme (PYP) for students aged 3 to 11. The IB currently works
with 3,698 schools in 147 countries to develop and offer four challenging programmes to over 1,151,000
students aged 3 to 19 years. Its programmes aim to help students develop the intellectual, personal, emotional
and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.
Lyceum-School 6 is an IB world school with authorization to deliver the IB DP, aiming to deliver
programmes across the IB Continuum.
If you would like to know more about the IB programmes, you can visit: www.ibo.org.
Our Vision
Lyceum-School 6 is a state school. The international section aims to produce students who are creative,
international-minded, and active agents of change in society; students who are centred in their own culture,
but whose minds are opened to the world through mutual understanding, trust and respect. We aim to attract
international students who wish to study side-by side with Azerbaijani students in a community in which
they feel cared for, trusted, understood, valued and safe. We want our students to be active learners who are
challenged by expectations that are high, but realistic, in lessons which are driven by shared objectives. We
would like our students to develop critical thinking skills and have the ability to use the technologies of the
future. Parents will be welcome partners in our project. We expect that the majority of our students will gain
bilingual diplomas.
Our Core Values
Loveforlearning
We value our students’ curiosity and believe that a love forlearning motivates
students to learn more about themselves, other people and the world around
them.
Knowledge
We value the knowledge and the exploration of concepts,ideas and issues that
have local and global significance. We want our students to acquire in-depth
knowledge, as wellas develop thinking skills that will prepare them for the
future.
Citizenship
We value the positive response and impact our students make in the
communities they livein.
Cultural identity
We value the development of a strong cultural identity as a pre-requisite for
understanding the points of view of people from other cultures.
International-
mindedness
We value the world as a context forlearning. We want our students to
understand and appreciate the many links between people, cultures and
continents.
The International Baccalaureate Mission Statement
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.