This article shows how grade 2 students expressed themselves through a unit on celebrations. They inquired into celebrations and festivities and how they are connected to belief systems, cultures and human spirit.
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Teaching art brut aesthetics and ocean pollution
This article exhibits how students from lower elementary develop creative and critical thinking skills using art to discuss the issue of water pollution. In connection to art, students were familiarized with the concept of aesthetics and the relation between the used artistic media and theme of water pollution.
Learners taking big steps for entrepreneurship
In this article it is delineated how Primary Years Programme philosophy of engaging learning activities, effective assessment and meaningful actions represents an ideal framework to assist students developing their sense of entrepreneurship, one of the key competences for lifelong learning.
Living our mission statement through play
This article highlights how the primary students highlight and realize their school’s mission statement through play.
To science or not to science – that is the question!
In this article you will read how a PYP school approaches science or, better to say, why the school does not have science class in lower school.
Using literacy to drive inquiry
This article highlights a PYP school’s journey towards fostering language and literacy inquiry as an essential tool for achieving the objectives of the programme of inquiry and ultimately, learner success.