PYP
Year 6 PYP Exhibition
A huge congratulations to all the Year 6 students and teachers who presented their exhibition to the school community. It was wonderful to move around groups and learn about their journey, lines of inquiry and their solutions.
The exhibition is huge learning journey for all students as they model many Learner profile attributes some including being inquirers, as they develop their understanding, being balanced as they managed their time, open minded as they collaborated with their peers and communicators as they shared the exhibition with the school community.
What Is The Exhibition?
The Primary Years Programme (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 their engagement with the PYP.
Students are required to engage in a collaborative, transdisciplinary inquiry process that involves them identifying, investigating, and offering solutions to real-life issues or problems.
The Purpose of the Exhibition
The 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.
Primary Years Programme (PYP)
Beaumaris North Primary School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School authorised to teach the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP). It is an internationally recognised programme and provides the framework for implementing the Victorian Curriculum.
The aim of all IBO programmes is to develop internationally minded people who recognising their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help create a better and more peaceful world.
The Primary Years Programme is a programme of teaching and learning that focuses on the education of the whole person emphasising intellectual, emotional, social, and physical growth whilst also involving the traditions of learning languages, humanities, mathematics, sciences and the arts. In order to promote this development, you will see there is an emphasis on recognising and developing the attributes of the IB Learner Profile in conjunction with acknowledgment of the demonstration of particular Attitudes. The ‘Learner Profile Action Board’ is a focal point in each classroom.
The ‘Learner Profile’ and ‘PYP Attitudes’ are displayed in every classroom and around the school along with the School values – Essential Agreement on a variety of topics including expected classroom and playground behaviour.
IB learners strive to be:
Learner Profile
- Inquirers
- Knowledgeable
- Thinkers
- Communicators
- Principled
- Open-Minded
- Caring
- Risk-takers
- Balanced
- Reflective
PYP Attitudes
Action in the PYP
- Appreciation
- Commitment
- Confidence
- Cooperation
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Empathy
- Enthusiasm
- Independence
- Integrity
- Respect
- Tolerance
Five Essential Elements of the PYP
- The acquisition of essential knowledge.
- The mastery of skills.
- Development of conceptual understanding.
- Demonstration of positive attitudes.
- Taking of responsible action.
Transdisciplinary Themes
- Who We Are
- Where We Are In Place & Time
- How We Express Ourselves
- How The World Works
- How We Organise Ourselves
Unit of Inquiry
Students explore the six transdisciplinary themes through Units of Inquiry throughout the year. The Units of Inquiry that your child will be exploring each term are available in our Year Level Information and posted on Compass as they commence. An update on the Units of Inquiry being explored is also provided each term in our Curriculum News.
Please note that the Curriculum News – Current Unit of Inquiry & Specialist News can always be found under the heading LOOKING FOR SOMETHING? on the newsfeed.
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