How We Express Ourselves Place

Transdisciplinary Theme

'How We Express Ourselves'

​CENTRAL IDEA

Communication is influenced by feelings and emotions

As an International Baccalaureate world school, authorised to teach the Primary Year’s Programme, we explore six transdisciplinary themes each year. 

The first unit the year two students will explore focuses on the various ways we communicate and express our ideas and emotions.

During this year the students will be participating in ‘The Resilience Project’. Topics include the exploration of the values of Mindfulness, Gratitude and Empathy.

The Resilience Project delivers emotionally engaging programs to schools, providing practical, evidence-based, positive mental health strategies to build resilience and happiness.

Concepts

• Perspective
• Reflection

Lines of Inquiry

• The ways in which we share our ideas and feelings
• Exploring our emotions
• The way our emotions affect our communication

Action

Action in the PYP is initiated independently by the student as a result of the learning process. Action may be bringing a book or artefact related to the inquiry to school, or student-initiated drawings/posters/research. We celebrate our students’ ACTION every day in our classrooms. If you see your children taking independent action at home encourage them to share their action with their class.

We will be demonstrating these Learner Profile Attributes

• Caring 
• Risk taker

Approaches to learning

• Cooperation skills
• Communication skills
• Self-management skills

The Year 2 Team

Ms Tania Purton, Mrs Sharon Demetriou, Mr Doug Bray & Mr Peter Stanbrook