PYP

December –- Knowledgeable  

For the month of November, we are focusing on being knowledgeable. Students who are knowledgeable develop and use conceptual understanding, exploring knowledge across a range of disciplines. Students engage with issues and ideas that have local and global significance 

As they explore these ideas and issues, they begin to develop a broad range of knowledge across many disciplines. 

How we help students become more knowledgeable at Beaumaris North Primary School

• Incorporating the inquiry cycle into all units of inquiry. The inquiry cycle is a step-by-step guide that students and teachers can use to process information and transform that information into in-depth knowledge 
• Encouraging collaboration and student-driven learning.  By creating opportunities for collaboration in class, our students get to share this knowledge and learn from each other at a peer-to-peer level.  
• Celebrating student achievements in the Learner profile. The Learner profile consists of various traits, such as being knowledgeable, communicators, principled and thinkers. Whenever a student enjoys success with one of these traits, we recognise and celebrate them. 

How can your child practice being Knowledgeable at home?  

It can be useful to encourage your child to read books that are about their units of inquiry at school. 

You can encourage your child to access together with you, child friendly news website. Such as BTN and Kids News. 

Discussing with your child what they been learning about at school and prompt conversations:  

Why do you think this is important to know? 

Do you think there are such kinds of things in the World? 

Could it happen in the past? 

Interview with our students 

Prep 

Emilia and Archie 

What does being knowledgeable mean to you? 

Emilia: It’s about learning new things.  

Archie: It is about understanding how to be caring for the planet because you understand it. 

How you been knowledgeable in your unit of inquiry? 

Archie: We have been learning abut sea animals around the world. If there is rubbish on the beach you need to pick it up and put out  in the bin. Turtles always eat plastic bags because they think they are jelly fish and they eat jellyfish, 

Emilia: We need to pick them up and reuse them. 

Year 4  

Jack 

What does being knowledgeable mean to you? 

It means to be able to understand things and know what is happing around you. So that you know what is there, and you know how to react with the least amount of consequences. We also need to find out what is happening in order to be able to stop things happening. 

How you been knowledgeable in your unit of inquiry? 

That it is a right is to be able to go to school. That you have a right to be able to live in a comfortable, safe place as a child. There was a girl called Malala that was shot because she went to school in a country where it was hard for girls to go to school at a certain time. It was because a group didn’t think girls should go to school. This was going against the right for all children to have an education. 

Year 2 

Arabella 

What does being knowledgeable mean to you? 

Being knowledgeable, you know lots of things. You can help others when you need it.  

How you been knowledgeable in your unit of inquiry? 

We’ve been learning about what communities are. A community is a place with lots of people or a little bit of people. It can change depending on what communities you have. I have been knowledgeable learning about how a community can get really, really, big. Bigger than even a school. The whole world is a community and the whole world is a planet and that can get really big! 

Year 6 

Ada and Edelyn 

What does being knowledgeable mean to you? 

Edelyn: Being knowledgeable is when you know how to do something. You may already know what it is, but you want others to know. I know that as a wellbeing captain you need to be nice and kind, so that if someone is hurt I know how to support them. 

Ada: being knowledgeable, is when you have confidence in what you know and confidence that you can share that learning to other people. Your knowledge is something you can apply to other things. Like sport, if I have knowledge about how to jump for gymnastics, I can use that knowledge for other things like high jump and other sports. 

How you been knowledgeable in your unit of inquiry? 

Ada: We are using our knowledge in our unit of inquiry to apply what we are learning about in the solar system. We learnt that the stars and the saucepan that you can see in the stars is different to First Nations people. They see many different things like a water land bird. 

Edelyn: We already knew some things about space, but we are becoming more knowledgeable learning more. Some other things First Nation people could see were the possum and the emus. It was really interesting to learn.