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2012 2013 Parent Inductionto the PYP Exhibition

@ NIST

Thursday 21st March, 2013

7.45am 8.45am

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Where We Are in Place and

Time

Playing with ideas reveals

possibilities and can causeshifts in thinking

Transdisciplinary Unit of Inquiry

Social Studies Strand: Continuity and change through time

PSPE Strand: Identity

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Where We Are in Place and

TimePlaying with ideas reveals possibilities

and can cause shifts in thinking

Broad and abstract Universal in application

Timeless

Represented by different examples

Two or more concepts stated in arelationship

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PurposeDoing something that matters

What would your photo

show?Adults will: Students will:

Share what would be in their

photo with the other adults

sitting at their group

Answer the questions they are

asked by the student

Listen carefully to the

conversations of the adults

Interview their adult using the

5 why questions

Record their adults answers on

the cardboard strip

Students feedback

JK

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PurposeDoing something that matters

What would your photo

show?Adults will: Students will:

Share what would be in their

photo with the other adults

sitting at their group

Answer the questions they are

asked by the student

Listen carefully to the

conversations of the adults

Interview their adult using the

5 why questions

Record their adults answers on

the cardboard strip

Students feedback

JK

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PlayCreatively engaging our imagination in

ways that make time disappear

While you are creatively engaged,what are you:

- Thinking? (Head)

- Doing? (Body)- Feeling? (Heart)

KK

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PlayCreatively engaging our imagination in ways that make time

disappear

While you are creatively engaged, what

are you:

- Thinking about? (Head)

- Doing? (Hands)- Feeling? (Heart)

Adults will: Students will:

Share their thoughts, feelings

and actions with other adults in

their group

Answer the questions they are

asked by the student

Listen carefully to the

conversations of the adults

Interview their adult using the

three play questions

Record their adults answers on

the cardboard strip

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PlayCreatively engaging our imagination in ways that make time

disappear

While you are creatively engaged, what

are you:

- Thinking about? (Head)

- Doing? (Hands)- Feeling? (Heart)

Adults will: Students will:

Share their thoughts, feelings

and actions with other adults in

their group

Answer the questions they are

asked by the student

Listen carefully to the

conversations of the adults

Interview their adult using the

three play questions

Record their adults answers on

the cardboard strip

KK

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PonderNaturally thinking, questioning and seeking

What natural thinking is taking

place as you are engaged in play?

What questions do you have?

What new skills do you need to develop?

How will you find out?

Who will you talk with?

JK

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PonderNaturally thinking, questioning and seeking

What natural thinking is taking place as you are engaged

in play?

What questions do you have?

What new skills do you need to develop?

What new information do you need to acquire?

Adults will: Students will:

Share their natural thinking with

other adults in their group

Answer the questions they are

asked by the student

Listen carefully to the

conversations of the adults

Interview their adult using the

four ponder questions

Record their adults answers on

the cardboard strip

JK

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PonderNaturally thinking, questioning and seeking

What natural thinking is taking place as you are engaged

in play?

What questions do you have?

What new skills do you need to develop?

What new information do you need to acquire?

Adults will: Students will:

Share their natural thinking with

other adults in their group

Answer the questions they are

asked by the student

Listen carefully to the

conversations of the adults

Interview their adult using the

four ponder questions

Record their adults answers on

the cardboard strip

JK

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PossibilitiesThe opportunities that emerge as we think about what we are

doing

What opportunities emerge as:

your questions are answered?

your skill levels develop?

your understandings

grow?

KK

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PossibilitiesThe opportunities that emerge as we think

about what we are doing

What opportunities emerge as:

Your questions are answered?

Your skills level develops

Your understandings grow?

Adults will: Students will:

Share thepossibilities that

they see

emerging, with

other adults at

their table

Answer thequestions they

are asked by the

student

Listen carefullyto the

conversations of

the adults

Interview their

adult using the

four possibilityquestions

Record their

adults answers

on the cardboard

strip

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PossibilitiesThe opportunities that emerge as we think

about what we are doing

What opportunities emerge as:

Your questions are answered?

Your skills level develops

Your understandings grow?

Adults will: Students will:

Share thepossibilities that

they see

emerging, with

other adults at

their table

Answer thequestions they

are asked by the

student

Listen carefullyto the

conversations of

the adults

Interview their

adult using the

four possibilityquestions

Record their

adults answers

on the cardboard

strip

KK

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Would anybody like to share?

KK

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ActionSuccessful inquiry leads to responsible

action(Making the PYP happen: A curriculum framework forinternational primary education pp.25)

GD

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Time Line- NIST PYP Exhibition Staging Thursday 9th May

and Friday 10th May, 2013

- Exhibition opening for parents only, morning ofThursday 9th May

- Practise run through for the Year 6 students onWednesday 8th May

GD

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Check Points- Regular check points

- Parents invited into classrooms to become part

of the process

- Parents as coaches

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Home Learning- Teacher set or monitored

- Focused on the exhibition

- Personal reading should continue

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My role as a

Parent?

GD

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Your role as a parent: Play a supporting role the key word is support, be an encourager(GD) Recognising the exhibition as a whole process and not as a product (GD)

If possible, attending the class Checkpoints sessions (CW)

Respectingyour childs process it is theirwork and it should be done by

them (CW)

Asking questions about what your child is doing and what they think about

what theyre learning (CW)

Listen to what your child tells you about his/her progress (JB)

Talk with your children about their learning in their home language(JB x2)

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Questions?GD