The MYP provides a framework of learning that encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers. The MYP emphasizes intellectual challenge, encouraging students to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and the real world. It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement—essential qualities for young people who are becoming global leaders.

The MYP consists of eight subject groups: Language Acquisition (Arabic and Spanish), Language and Literature (English, Arabic and Spanish), Individuals and Societies (Humanities), Sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), Mathematics, Arts (Music, Visual Arts), Physical and Health Education, and Design. The MYP aims to help students develop their personal understanding, their emerging sense of self and responsibility in their community.

MYP teachers organize the curriculum with appropriate attention to:

• Teaching and learning in context. Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and the world that they have experienced. Using global contexts, MYP students explore human identity, global challenges and what it means to be internationally minded.
• Conceptual understanding. Concepts are big ideas that have relevance within specific disciplines and across subject areas. MYP students use concepts as a vehicle to inquire into issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance and examine knowledge holistically.
• Approaches to learning (ATL). Learning how to learn effectively is a fundamental goal at SEK Qatar. Through Approaches to Learning, students are provided with the tools to enable them to take responsibility for their own learning.
• Language and identity – MYP students are required to learn at least two languages. Learning to communicate in a variety of ways is fundamental to their development of intercultural understanding and crucial to their identity affirmation.
• Service as action (community service). Action (learning by doing and experiencing) and service have always been shared values of the IB community. Students take action when they apply what they are learning in the classroom and beyond. IB learners strive to be caring members of the community who demonstrate a commitment to service—making a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment.

In Grade 8, students complete the Community Project. This project encourages students to explore their right and responsibility to implement service as action in the community. Students may complete the community project individually or in small groups.

In Grade 10, each student develops a Personal Project independently, producing a truly personal and creative piece of work that stands as a summative review of their ability to conduct independent work.