How We Express Ourselves

PREP - TERM 2A, 2022

Transdisciplinary Theme: 

How We Express Ourselves

​CENTRAL IDEA

Senses help people express themselves

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

In term two, the students will be exploring their senses. This inquiry aims to promote and develop a sense of curiosity- which allows students to explore and investigate the world around them.

The students will undertake many activities, exploration of their outside environment and experimenting with a variety of materials to discover their senses.

Concepts

• Function
• Reflection

Lines of Inquiry

• The five senses
• The different ways in which we use our senses
• The way  our senses help us function

Action

Action in the PYP is initiated independently by the student as a result of the learning process. Action during remote learning is as important as it would at school.  It may be independently finding items that help them explain their senses or finding books on their book shelf about a particular sense. It also could be in the form of student initiated drawings/posters/research. 

We celebrate our students’ ACTION every day in our classrooms. Please celebrate any action you see occurring in your home.

Approaches to Learning

• Communication skills
• Self Management skills
• Thinking skills

Learner Profile                                                     

• Open-minded

The Prep Team

Miss Sue Evins, Mrs Tanya Gibbon, Mrs Jen Lee and Mr Peter Stanbrook