IDU co-planning guides

The pairing most schools choose — festivals as cultural systems meet analysis and creation of texts about identity and expression.

Festivals as cultural systems meet artistic expression — strongest where the Arts course carries a performance or visual culminating piece.

Texts and artistry in dialogue — a natural fit where both courses already share Personal & Cultural Expression.

The strongest fit for this unit — visual language and composition meet the community and identity questions a public wall raises.

Image and text as parallel ways of making meaning — good where students write the statement that accompanies their mural.

For schools without an Arts partner — public art as civic expression, analysed and argued for in writing.

Narrative craft meets the study of how communities explain their world across time and place.

Storytelling and performance together — a good fit where the Arts course covers drama, oral narrative, or illustration.

Legends as cultural evidence, retold visually or in performance rather than in extended writing.

Context-specific: only where English is the acquisition language, and only for students at MYP Phase 3 / CEFR A2 or above.

The strongest fit — community need and public space meet the Design cycle, from brief through to a justified solution.

Form and function together — atmosphere, materials, and visual identity alongside the design brief.

For schools without a Design partner — public space as cultural expression, developed visually.

Community need researched and then argued for — students make the written case for the place they have designed.