Gr.+5+Exhibition

Mark your calendars!

Grade 5’s PYP Exhibition will take place on the evening of **May 23**  from 18:30 to 20:00 in the Zielinskiego Campus Theatre.

The exhibition is an important, culminating event in the life of our school and the student who is graduating from the Primary Years Program (PYP) to the Middle Years Program (MYP). Students will put together all the elements of the PYP as they participate in a trans-disciplinary inquiry that requires a high level of personal and shared responsibility. Their results will be displayed in an exhibition that all members of the community will be invited to attend.

Each student will be assigned a mentor to help guide them throughout the exhibition process. This mentor will be another teacher from WIS who is volunteering both time and expertise. After deciding on their topics, students will be paired with their mentors and will become responsible for setting up meetings with their mentors. A mentor can help the students set and meet their goals by asking questions, suggesting resources, helping to interpret difficult information and facilitating interviews or telephone calls.

**How can you help as a parent?** Like the mentor’s role, the role of parents is to facilitate the process, //but not to do the work//. Even though the students will be working independently, and much of the work will be done at school, parental support will help them greatly. For example, you can: authorities that may provide additional information; child’s research;
 * become familiar with your child’s central idea;
 * take them to the library, government agencies or
 * take a packed lunch and visit the area that is the subject of your
 * encourage independent inquiry and respect student ownership
 * of the process;
 * celebrate with the students by attending the exhibition.

3 Stages As a school, we have chosen to have our exhibition fall under the organizing theme “Sharing the Planet”. Each Grade 5 student will create a central idea and decide which direction to take it and explore it. These are three main stages of the exhibition. Throughout each stage, everyone involved (students, teachers, mentors, parents) will be asked to reflect on the process.

**PLANNING** through collaboration (among students, teachers and the community) to decide:

What issues/problems to solve What learning should take place What activities to do How it will be assessed

**CREATING** using the elements of the PYP: What is it like? How does it work? Why is it like it is? How is it changing? How is it connected to other things? What are the points of view? What is our responsibility? How do we know? Social skills, research skills, thinking skills, communication skills, Self-management skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">8 Key Conceptual Questions:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Trans-disciplinary Skills:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Opportunities to display positive attitudes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Opportunities to engage in positive action

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**STAGING** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">the final presentations to include:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Examples of written work, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Use of technology, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Oral presentations and/or <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Performances in any medium– dance, drama, film, video, mixed media