The IB Diploma Programme at Wareham High School is an academically challenging and balanced programme of education that prepares students aged 16 to 19 for future success. It has been designed to address the intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being of all students. The programme is recognized and respected at leading colleges and universities around the world.

The Diploma Program prepares students for effective participation in a rapidly evolving and increasingly global society as they:

• develop physically, intellectually, emotionally and ethically

• acquire breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding, studying courses from six subject groups

• develop the skills and a positive attitude towards learning that will prepare them for higher education

• study at least two languages and increase understanding of cultures, including their own

• make connections across traditional academic disciplines and

• explore the nature of knowledge through the program’s unique theory of knowledge course

• undertake in-depth research into an area of interest through the lens of one or more academic disciplines in the extended essay

• enhance their personal and interpersonal development through creativity, action and service.