How We Express Ourselves

YEAR TWO - TERM 1A, 2021

Transdisciplinary Theme - How We Express Oursleves

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 2 students will explore focuses on the various ways we communicate and express our ideas and emotions. The students will focus on various emotions and the way they can impact others.

During this term the students will be participating in 'The Resilience Project'. Topics include the exploration of the values of Mindfulness, Gratitude and Empathy. The Resilience Project aims to deliver emotionally engaging programs to schools, providing practical, evidence-based, positive mental health strategies to build resilience and happiness.

Concepts

Perspective
Reflection

Lines of Inquiry

Exploring our emotions
The ways in which we share our ideas and feelings
The ways emotions effect 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.