PYP Exhibition

The Primary Years Programme (PYP) Exhibition represents a significant event in a PYP school and the life of its 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 (IB) learner profile that have been developing throughout their engagement with the PYP.

What is the PYP Exhibition?

In the students’ final year of the PYP there are five units of inquiry and the Exhibition. Exhibition is a time for students to engage in action. They are required to work collaboratively, using a variety of transdiciplinary skills of research, communication, thinking, social and self-management. Students design interviews, surveys, science investigations, research and more, to identify, investigate, understand and offer solutions to real-life issues or problems that combines global significance.

The PYP transdisciplinary theme for our AIS Exhibition this year is Sharing the Planet.

What is the purpose of the PYP Exhibition?

There are many things we hope the students will achieve during exhibition but critical ones include:

• students having an opportunity to demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning
• students having an opportunity to explore multiple perspectives
• students exhibiting the attributes of the learner profile, attitudes and skills
• students synthesizing and applying their learning of previous years and reflecting upon their journey through the PYP
• students celebrating their learning and the transition from primary to the middle years programme

What will the PYP Exhibition look like?

At the end of a seven week inquiry, students celebrate their learning at an Exhibition Gala. Parents, students and staff are invited to attend the event and students interact with the guests, sharing their understanding of the inquiry, the development of the conceptual understanding, the process of their inquiry and presentation of their work, as well as extending it to Global action beyond the community in a variety of ways.

For example, some groups may decide to create a PowerPoint presentation, blog, iMovie, a drama or musical composition, or display their information with maps, illustrations, and/or posters.