January 2011 - Mini Gryphon.indd - Meadowridge School

Page 15 | JANUARY 2012 Las t year you helped us IMAGINE. This year, please help us DESIGN the nex t 25 year s.
G R A D E 5 E X H I B I T I O N
It is hard to believe that our current Grade 5 students are
coming to the end of their PYP years. In the near future,
these students will be engaged in one of their last PYP
units of inquiry, the Exhibition. One of our traditions here
at Meadowridge is to present a laptop bag to the Grade 5
students to acknowledge their effor ts as PYP leaders, for
their par ticipation in the Exhibition and for their graduation
to MYP. Mr. Diniz, Ms. Metz and I presented these bags to
the students last week.
The goals of the PYP Exhibition are to synthesize the
essential elements of the PYP and share them with the
whole school community. As a culminating experience it is
an oppor tunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the
IB Learner Prof ile that have been developing throughout
their PYP years. The PYP exhibition has a number of key
purposes:
• for students to engage in an in-depth, collaborative inquiry
• to provide students with an oppor tunity to demonstrate independence and responsibility for their own learning
• to provide students with an oppor tunity to explore multiple perspectives
• for students to synthesize and apply their learning of previous years and to ref lect upon their journey through the PYP
• to provide an authentic process for assessing student understanding
• to demonstrate how students can take action as a result of their learning
• to unite the students, teachers, parents and other members of the school community in a collaborative experience that
incorporates the essential elements of the PYP
• to celebrate the transition of learners from primary to middle/secondary education.
More information will be for thcoming in the next few weeks as the Grade 5 students begin this journey.
- Mr. Terry Donaldson, Director of Academics