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!

Happy New Year! Time to Dance!

  First day of school after a long holiday year, 4 came to our class to talk about their new dance club.They meet every Wednesday during lunch. 
The club is open to everybody so anybody can join in. This dance was really fun and we danced to a lot of songs like “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift, “Timber” By Pitbull Featuring Ke$a and a lot more. 
The whole point of this dance is to get you moving and have fun. It’s a great thing to get together with people who like to listen to good music and dance. This was after P.E (Gymnastics) and we were so tired but we did it and enjoyed it a lot. Although it made us even more tired - it was worth it!
Anna

Advertising - How We Express Ourselves

We are inquiring into how advertising  influences our beliefs and behaviours. Part of our Tuning In was to use QR codes to look at and try to work out the messages the advertisements were sending us as well as who was their target audience. We looked at about 20 QR Codes altogether.

The codes were split into two groups, one group with the text and company edited out and the other group had all of the text and advertiser's name included.

We started by looking at the group without the text and then, after we tried to work out the message, we looked at the second group. We thought about how having the text, and not having the text, made a difference to how we interpreted the ads and their messages.