The PYP Exhibition 2017

What is the purpose of an Exhibition?

❖For students to engage in an in-depth, collaborative

student-led inquiry

❖ For students to have the opportunity to demonstrate

independence and responsibility for their own learning

❖For students to synthesize and apply their learning of

previous years and reflecting upon their journey throughout

the Primary Years Programme

Action

Knowledge

Approaches to

LearningAttitudes

Concepts

❖An opportunity for students to bring together the

essential elements of the PYP and share them with the

school and wider community

❖ To enable students to use skills from all five sets of

approaches to learning

❖To demonstrate how students can take action as a result of

their learning

❖ To provide an opportunity for students to exhibit the

attributes of the IB Learner Profile

Action

Knowledge

Attitudes

Concepts

Approaches to

Learning

The Exhibition Display…The Exhibition display should include:• examples of written work• oral presentations• examples of technology• performances in any medium –

dance, drama, film, video, mixed media etc.

The Exhibition 2017• The Transdisciplinary theme

this year is ‘Sharing the Planet’• The students will investigate a

real-life issue that may be related to a personal interest or passion.

• They will use different forms of expression to communicate and present their understandings.

Sequence: Pre Exhibition, FebruaryTeachers share their passions and interests

about various issues.

Sequence: Pre Exhibition, FebruaryStudents develop their understanding of the

transdisciplinary theme ‘Sharing the Planet’.

Pre Exhibition: February

Individual students decide on the real life issue

they wish to investigate.

Exhibition: March• Teachers create student groups• Groups negotiate essential

agreements, key concepts, inquiry points and questions to guide their inquiry.

• Reflection writing

Exhibition: March• Inquiry using the Kath Murdoch cycle• ‘Mini skills’ workshops and Expert Sessions• Group meetings

➢Tuning in➢Finding out➢Sorting out➢Going further➢Making

conclusions➢Reflecting and

taking action

Exhibition: April• Individual, group and grade

display preparation • Presentation practices

Exhibition: May• Friday 5th of May and Saturday

morning 6th of May The Exhibition Presentation

• Follow-up week – reflection, evaluation, assessment.

Exhibition: May

• On the Exhibition days, please come and see students present their learning.

• Go around and visit groups throughout the day.

Homework• Reading, vocabulary and maths homework will

continue during the Exhibition unit but may reduce as the Exhibition work builds.

• The weekly Exhibition unit homework should focus on their personal inquiry. The children should use their time at home to work on their reflections, journal and prepare for the work in class.

• The actual exhibition work should be done in class.

Assessment• The students will keep a journal throughout the

exhibition that shows how their thinking and goals have developed. This journal may include pictures, diagrams, poems, timelines and writing as well as reflections.

• The assessment focuses on the process more than the product.

• Children will self assess – reflections, rubrics.• Teachers will assess by observation, by looking

at the journals, the process, the final product, the PYP transdisciplinary skills, attitudes, learner profiles and concepts and by using rubrics.

• These rubrics will constitute the assessment. There will not be one final grade at the end.

Student reflection

and planning example

Rubric Example

How can parents help?This is the STUDENTS’ Exhibition but parents can:• Keep informed about the process – ask the

children to talk about what they are doing, how they are going, their understandings, their plans etc.

• Help find and take their students on a field trip• Support and encourage the children• Provide knowledge• Help to locate resources – people, places, media

and information• Celebrate with the students by attending the final

presentations

How can parents help?

Parents can:• Encourage independent inquiry and your child’s

ownership over the learning• Listen, support, encourage, have faith in them• Assist with the collection of packing boxes and

other possible display materials

Thanks for coming!

If you have any questions, please see any of the

Grade 5 teachers or single-subject teachers.