PYP

October – Inquirers 

For the month of October, we are focusing on being inquires at home and at school.   

We nurture our curiosity, developing skills for inquiry and research. We know how to learn independently and with others. We learn with enthusiasm and sustain our love of learning throughout life. 

Inquirers do more than just ask questions. They also have the skills to seek answers.  

Inquirers may do research, they may read a book, perform a small experiment, or pull something apart until they have found the answer.  

How can students practice being inquirers?  

• You can make a visit to a library to borrow books that are about their interests and hobbies. 
• You can encourage personal research on an area of interest. 
• Encourage your child to investigate their wonderings. 
• Being a role model to your child, when there is a subject that you also don’t have an idea about, admit your lack of knowledge and offer to search the solutions together. 

Being an inquirer, fosters lifelong learning. 

Prep

Masie  

We are learning about under the sea and the sea animals. We are learning that some sea animals are dying from rubbish in the sea. I was an inquirer when I learnt that there are 10 different types of sharks. 

Violet, Zoe and Jessie 

Year 1 

Being an inquirer is, putting your hand up when you don’t know the answer to find out more information. 

Giving it a go and finding information. 

Working well to find more information on what you do not know. 

We have been inquirers in our units of inquiry because we have been learning about habitats and animals. They live in lots of odd places.  

I was very interested in habitats and animals that people don’t really know a lot about. 

It is interesting being inquirers and learning how animals survive and how animals help themselves to survive. 

  Year 2

 Emma 

To be an inquirer, you join into the class and what they are doing and ask questions. I was an inquirer when we had a billy cart incursion. I learnt how forces made things move. You needed a person to push the billy cart. When it was the ‘ezy roller’ you were the engine doing it. 

  Year 4

 Nora 

Being an inquirer means to ask questions, so if you don’t understand something you inquire about it and learn more about it. An example of when I have been an inquirer in this unit was when I asked questions about plants that were in the Amazon rainforest that I could use as materials for building a shelter. I also asked my friends if I was correct too. 

Year 5

Edith 

I think being an inquirer is looking into new things, exploring a subject to find more information about it. I’ve been an inquirer in this unit when I investigated my ‘ugly’ animal and found out its habitat, diet and behaviour and turned the information into a poster.