International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

Calendar and deadlines

Students who miss any deadline may be ineligible for extracurricular activities (including sports, clubs, student council, All School Production), senior privileges, the senior service trip and other privileges/activities until work is completed. 

 

Students who submit final drafts by the fall trimester November deadline may be eligible for senior privileges.  

 

Students who miss final deadlines—in-school and IB deadlines—in addition to being withheld from extracurricular activities and being ineligible for senior privileges, may forfeit further supervisor assistance.

 

Please adhere to the deadlines. They are meant to help you in a positive way by keeping you on track and by preventing you from having too many assignments due at the same time in March.

End of May: First EE classes meet.

June: Choose subject and topic, meet with supervisor, draft research question and hypothesis, formulate research plan, conduct preliminary research, compile working bibliography, create essay outline, meet with supervisor again.

In short, get everything in order by the end of June so that you can do your writing over the summer. Well begun is half done.

September: Meet with supervisor. Discuss progress.

End of September: Submit first draft.

October: Meet with supervisor. Discuss first draft. Revise.

End of October: Submit second draft.

November: Meet with supervisor. Discuss second draft. Revise.

End of fall trimester, November: Submit final draft.

Please submit one paper copy to your supervisor, one paper copy to the IB office, and one electronic copy to the IB office at pheimer@senri.ed.jp.

For more information, please contact Peter Heimer, OIS IBDP Coordinator

(072-727-5290, pheimer@senri.ed.jp), or visit the IBDP office, room 324 (third floor, next to tennis court), or visit the IBO public website at www.ibo.org.