On rare occasions, students join the school while the MYP5 (grade 10) academic year is already underway.

• Students transferring from IB schools who have already started their Personal Project journey will be required to continue on that journey.

• Students arriving before the end of the first quarter of the year (usually mid-October) will have to complete the Personal Project. They will work with the Personal Project coordinator and their Homebase Mentor to make a plan for catching up and being successful. 

• Students arriving after the first quarter, but before the end of the first semester will be exempt from completing the full Personal Project, but will be required to complete a shortened version of the project in order to be able to participate in the Personal Project Exhibition in March.

• Students arriving after the end of the first semester will be exempt from completing the Personal Project.

For many students, the Personal Project constitutes the biggest independent academic project they have undertaken in their school life so far. We acknowledge that some students might be more ready for this than others.

Students qualifying for Learning Support in other areas of the curriculum will usually be assigned a supervisor with a professional background in Learning Support.

The MYP personal project at UNIS is almost always developed and presented in the school’s language of instruction. Students do however have the opportunity to report on their Personal Project in any language when the following conditions can be met.

• An objective supervisor can be found. If no professional in the school is able to supervise the student in the language of their choice, the school can choose a supervisor from the community.

• The standards used in the assessment of such projects are the same as those applied to all personal projects in the school.

• The chosen language is one of the IB-supported languages for the Personal Project.

• If the chosen language is not one of these languages we are required to indicate this with the IB 19 months before the registration deadline for the session the student registers for. This is usually not possible.