Taking Action - Nepal Earthquake

Nepal Earthquake 25/04/2015

Nepal has had a major earthquake which caused lots of deaths, injuries and damage on homes. The earthquake was by the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. People are struggling to salvage what they’ve got and it will be hard for them the next few months. Lots of organizations from many different countries are working towards helping Nepal.

Nexus School has recently been solving this problem by donating coins for our own ‘Nepal Coin Challenge.’ Students had to collect all their coins and bring them into school for charity and later make them into a long trail.

Nexus managed to collect $8000SGD!

Editor's Update: It is being reported that there has been another earthquake in Nepal. Our thoughts go out to all those who are suffering terrible hardship there now. Please consider making a donation to legitimate organisations supporting those in need in Nepal.

Editor

Stage 3 Sorting Out: What's Important? What's Interesting?

Stage 3:What do we do with our information?

In stage 3 of our Exhibition Process we were focusing on ‘Sorting Out’.

We asked ourselves what to do with our information. We were also asked to evaluate how our information was connected and to show this on our Exhibition board. We had to think in depth into the concepts and how we could display everything together to show our learning journey.

Several of of us were making posters and presentations to display our information.

by The Year 6 Blogging Team

Finding out: What is it all about?

Our Year 6 classes have just started their second stage of the inquiry process: Finding out.  They have worked very hard over the last couple of weeks identify the issues that they would like to investigate further and decide on research questions, based on four of the PYP Key Concepts.  Now, they are all set to go forward with finding the answers to their questions.

They have also created note-taking guides to help them along as they find information that they think might be useful for answering their concept/research questions.

Exhibition Journey - Checkpoint one

Well done to all our learners. You have cleared the first hurdle along your Exhibition Journey.

The 'Tuning in' stage is now complete....

You are now ready to start 'Finding out' and researching your Key Questions.

Have fun! Before you start 'Finding out', remember to reflect on the first stage on the blog.

What were some of the initial challenges that you faced in your Exhibition group? 

How did you overcome your initial challenges?

Supporting you through the Exhibition

This is a great Prezi that will help you on your way

Our Exhibition gets into Full Gear - Exhibition Amazing Race

What an awesome start to our Exhibition 2015. Our groups completed the Transdisciplinary Amazing Race in their newly formed exhibition groups. All our activities were provided by the Single Subject specialists (Art, Music, PE, Languages and Library) and were made to develop both our collaboration and understanding of the PYP Key Concepts.

Mathematics Competition in Kuala Lumpur

Recently, about 8 children from Year 6 had the opportunity to take part in a Mathematics Competition in Malaysia for two and a half days!

By all accoumts everyone had a great time but were very tired when they returned.

All 8 did Nexus proud and according to Mr Potter and Miss Portra they put in an extraordinary effort throughout the gruelling competition.

Congratulations to you all!