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This year the unit is under the Transdisciplinary Theme:

Where we are in place and time

Focus subject areas: Social Studies, PSPE

Focus strand: Continuity and change through time

The study of the relationships between people and events through time; its

influences on the present and its implications for the future.The students will be guided by the central idea:

Playing with ideas can reveal possibilities and can cause shifts in thinking.

Big Idea: Potential

What is the Exhibition?

The PYP Exhibition represents a significant event in the life of a PYP school

and student, synthesizing the essential elements of the PYP and sharing them

with the whole school community. As a culminating experience it is an

opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the International

Baccalaureate (IB) learner profile that have been developing throughout theirengagement with the PYP.

Students are required to engage in a collaborative, transdisciplinary inquiry

process that involves them in identifying, investigating and offering solutions

to real-life issues or problems. The central idea selected must be of sufficient

scope and significance to warrant a detailed investigation by all students.Source:PYP Exhibition Guidelines, IBO July 2009

PurposeThe PYP Exhibition has a number of key purposes:

for students to engage in an in-depth, collaborative inquiry

to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate

independence and responsibility for their own learning

to provide students with an opportunity to explore multiple

perspectives

for students to synthesize and apply their learning of previous years

and to reflect upon their journey through the PYP to provide an authentic process for assessing student understanding

to demonstrate how students can take action as a result of their

learning

to unite the students, teachers, parents and other members of the

school community in a collaborative experience that incorporates

the essential elements of the PYP

to celebrate the transition of learners from primary to

middle/secondary education

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The Process (in brief)Students:

select an issue that is meaningful to them as well as connected to their immediate life

experiences.

engage in teambuilding activities and develop essential agreements on how to work

together.

form questions that help them gain a deeper understanding of the issue and view it

from multiple perspectives.

research the issue, using primary and secondary sources.

consider the probable and preferable future of their issue

consider ways of taking action.

choose a means of formally sharing their learning with the wider community.

formally reflect on the entire process.

What does the Exhibition unit look like?

The written partwill consist of the students research as well as individual ExhibitionJournals (these may be on the blogs). The Exhibition Journal is the ongoing record of the

thinking and work each student does leading up to the actual Exhibition. The journal

reflects the process and progress that is being made as a team, as well as an individual.

The expressive part of the Exhibition could include drama, dance, music, art, video,

demonstrations, oral and IT presentations, etc as the students share their new

understandings with the NIST community.

All assessment of the Exhibition will be done within the school. The class teacher will beinvolved in the monitoring of progress throughout the Exhibition process and the students

will be involved in self-assessment.

Evaluation and reflections will be carried out through the use of observations and rubrics.

Your role as a parent:

Play a supporting role the key word is support, be an encourager

Recognising the exhibition as a whole process and not as a product

If possible, attending the class Checkpoints sessions Respectingyour childs process it is theirwork and it should be done by them

Asking questions about what your child is doing and what they think about what theyre

learning

Listen to what your child tells you about his/her progress

Providing practical assistance when possible - connecting them with people who are

knowledgeable about their issue, helping them get to visits/interviews, etc

Attending the celebration on May 9th

, 2013 and celebrating the completion of the

incredible independent inquiry that your child has been involved in.

Not critically comparing your childs Exhibition to that of another All the ExhibitionJourneys will be completely different

Not pressuring your childjust let it happen! The teachers will be guiding the students

and making sure that everyone achieves