The Exhibition
In the final year of the PYP at Young, Grade 5, all students complete a program-specific project that allows them to demonstrate a consolidation of their learning. The Exhibition represents a significant event in the life of a PYP school and students, synthesizing the essential elements of the PYP and sharing them with the whole school community. As a culminating experience it is an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the International Baccalaureate learner profile that have been developing throughout their years in the PYP. Students are required to engage in collaborative, transdisciplinary inquiry process that involves them in identifying, investigating and offering solutions to real-life issues or problems. The central idea selected must be of sufficient scope and significance to warrant a detailed investigation by all students.
Purpose:
- for students to engage in an in-depth, collaborative inquiry
- to provide students an opportunity to demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning
- to provide students with an opportunity to explore multiple perspectives
- for students to synthesize and apply their learning of previous years and to reflect upon their journey through the PYP
- to provide an authentic process for assessing student understanding
- to demonstrate how students can take action as a result of their learning
- to unite students, teachers, parents and other members of the school community in a collaborative experience that incorporates the essential elements of the PYP
- to celebrate the transition of learners from primary to middle/secondary education
Essential Features:
- demonstration of the attributes of the Learner Profile
- incorporation of all the key concepts and transdisciplinary themes
- use of all five sets of transdisciplinary skills
- engagement in action
- reflection on their learning
Exhibition 2011:
Theme- Where we are in time and place
Central Idea- Immigration is caused by hardships as well as opportunities people experience in any given location.
Exhibition 2012:
Theme- Sharing the Planet
Central Idea- Humans impact the Earth's water system in both positive and negative ways when they choose to conserve/ protect and use water resources.