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Last Friday, our Grade 4 French and Spanish students had a wonderful opportunity to integrate their learning from the 'How we organize ourselves' unit of inquiry with their additional language. Using the French and Spanish expressions that they have learned, the students sold a range of items from artistic creations to yummy treats, putting their entrepreneurial skills into practice. Thank you to all of the students and parents who visited the market.
Last Thursday, our Grade 4 students had their own Experience Zambia opportunity. Working closely with Monkey Orange Crafts, our students learned about environmental sustainability by understanding how monkey oranges can support the local economy in creative ways while protecting the trees that grow them. Our students sanded, cut, carved and painted monkey oranges to create artisan banks, proving to be an engaging day for all of them. This project flowed into an afternoon and early evening of activities connected to their units of inquiry, before having a fun sleep out on campus in our tents. It was a fun experience for everyone.
This week was an exciting week for our Grade 5 students as they showcased their PYP Exhibition with the school, parents, and the broader community. The PYP Exhibition is a milestone event in the life of a PYP student and is the culminating celebration of a student’s learning throughout primary school. For the past ten weeks, the Grade 5 students have engaged in an independent, in-depth, inquiry into an issue of their choice. The diverse range of issues aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and included animal welfare, early marriage, fast fashion, overfishing, pollution, gender inequality, and access to education; to name just a few.
This year’s Exhibition was connected to the transdisciplinary theme, How We Express Ourselves, and students explored how to express their message and engage an audience with their issue. With the agency to choose their mode of expression, students impressed our community with their originality and creativity when sharing their learning and action through the visual arts, performing arts, and the use of a range of technology tools. The presentations, both in the Performing Arts Center and the Pavillion, highlighted the students’ ability to articulate and demonstrate their findings in creative ways and were truly commendable. They inspired many of their parents, peers and other community members to consider these important issues in new and deeper ways and to take action. The PYP Exhibition was a community event in the truest sense, extending well beyond the walls of the Grade 5 classrooms. Students were supported by their peers, homeroom and specialist teachers, teaching assistants, mentors, administrators, parents, and experts within our local and broader community. Thank you to everyone who came and supported our PYP Exhibition and our Grade 5 students. It was a wonderful celebration of learning and has highlighted how ready our fifth graders are for the transition to middle school. Well done, Grade 5! On Wednesday, our Grade 1 students showed off their invertebrate books to their parents. The children worked very hard researching elements of a chosen invertebrate such as appearance, habitat, life cycle, and food. With the help of Mr. Louw, the G1 students shared their information on Book Creator, adding nonfiction text features such as a table of contents, glossary, headings, labels, and captions. Students also created and displayed a sculpture of their invertebrate, which they worked on with Mr. Mulangala in Visual Arts. There was a wonderful turnout and a very positive energy in the two classrooms today. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend.
Last Friday, was a big day for our ELC students. They began by creatively sharing how they discover and appreciate the natural world through singing, puppetry, movement and music. From song medleys, to free-form puppet stories to percussion explorations, the students won the hearts of the audience. After the assembly, families were invited to their Celebration of Learning which highlighted much of their learning from the Sharing the Planet unit of inquiry. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us. Below are a few highlights from the afternoon.
On Friday, our KG performers shared many ways we can be part of a loving community. Connected to their 'Sharing the Planet' unit of inquiry, the students demonstrated the concepts of responsibility, interdependence and self-management through singing, a musical ensemble, drama and dancing. They also exhibited their sculptures, made from found materials, in the gallery as part of their visual art exhibition. Thank you to all of the families who were able to join us.
On Friday March 3rd, Grade 3 students celebrated the end of their How We Organize Ourselves unit with their parents and family members. Throughout this unit, students explored how the interdependent systems in cities meet the needs of communities, and are planned purposefully to accommodate the anticipated needs of the future. They examined the design cycle and connected their learning to the hands-on task of building bridges, gaining perspective for cityscapes and architecture in visual art, and by synthesizing their learning by planning and developing their own cities, which they defended through opinion writing. Congratulations third grade students on your creativity and collaboration throughout this unit. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us.
On Friday 3rd March, the Grade 2's welcomed their parents to school to celebrate the end of the How We Express Ourselves unit of inquiry. They performed folktales for their families and showed some of their artwork, including Tinga Tinga pictures and cave paintings. They also shared folktales which they had written. The students greatly enjoyed sharing their learning with their parents through this storytelling experience. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us.
On Tuesday, our Grade 1 students interpreted their understanding of how sound affects the way we experience the world. In their Performing Arts assembly, students connected to their ‘How the world works’ unit of inquiry, by interpreting sounds through creative movement, choreographing dances, playing together as a percussion ensemble and singing together. Well done to our G1 performers and a big thank you to Ms. Carolyn and Mr. Edwin for orchestrating the performance. We were so happy to see that many families were able to join us.
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