P8 PYP Exhibition 2012 “Our passion and interests can lead to action”

P8 Newsbeat
March, 2012
P8 PYP Exhibition 2012
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the
means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open
for you to do more.
Robert Collier
P8 Parent Teacher Conferences
Action
Wednesday 29 th , Thursday 1st
• student initiated
Please • sign a result up of the for learning your process conference
• grounded in students’ concrete
experiences
time outside the homeroom class.
Central Idea:
“Our passion and interests can lead to action”
Key concepts:
Responsibility, Connection
Related concepts:
Action, levels of need,
Lines of inquiry:
Our passions and interests
How our passions connect us with others at a local and global
level
How we can take action to share and promote our passions
and interests.
“Before this exhibition inquiry, I didn’t
realize the importance of sharing our
world with those less fortunate.”
P8 Student, 2010
"Before I didn't realize the issues in the
world apart from those of North America,
but now I realize the whole world is
connected." P8 Student, 2011
Mother Tongue Day in P8
P8 students, Agil and Simon,
working with refugee
children on some Judo
techniques.
One of the many PYP
Exhibition actions completed
by P8 students in the local
community.
How can you support the P8 PYP Exhibition 2012?
Support and provide opportunities for your child to
work consistently, on a daily basis, towards completing their
daily goals
Help your child to locate experts in the community that
can support or extend their study
Stay in touch with your child’s progress and needs
Allow your child to own the process
Join us on May 16th, 2012 to celebrate the learning of
our P8 students!
P8 students participated in the school
wide Mother Tongue day with interest
and initiatives. Languages and games were
shared by all.
Thank you to all the parents who helped
to make this day an intercultural and
learning one.

Math
Language Arts
Math Integration with the PYP Exhibition Inquiry
A wide range of math skills and understandings
will be used as the student progresses through
the exhibition process. This is an excellent
opportunity for students to apply and extend
their math skills and understandings.
Students will continue to investigate and further their
understandings and application of “Parts of a Whole”,
including fractions, percentages, decimals and ratios.
We continue to develop number skills on a daily basis. We
have moved into time and shape and space, exploring 2D
and 3D shapes.
Reading
Students will continue with their novel study, gaining an in-depth
understanding of emotions and character development. They
will be reading and responding to their self-selected novel on a
daily basis.
Articles and polls related to student exhibition choices will be
used to further students’ understandings of the various
components of their passion and issue related to self, local and
world connections.
Writing
Written reflections on their daily process will take on a variety of
writing genres as students reflect on their exhibition process.
Developing questionnaires and interviews related to students’
exhibition inquiry with written interpretations will be developed
during class instruction.
Oral
Students continue to present their understandings, skills and
process to the class using their developing presentation skills.
Visual Expression
An important part of the student PYP Exhibition is developing
visuals which will support them in showing the results of their
“passion” inquiry.
Ongoing throughout the year
Operations
Students will consolidate and extend skills, knowledge
and understanding of strategies and recording
methods for:
Adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers
of any size.
Multiplying and dividing numbers involving four or
more digits
Whole Numbers
Students will further extend their skills, knowledge and
understanding of numbers representing quantities
beyond 100,000 and will further consolidate the
relationships described by place value for numbers
with more than five digits
Patterns and Functions
Students will extend and apply skills, knowledge and
understanding of using rules to generalize the
repetitive features of a range of patterns in sets of
numbers
“Experience is the child of Thought,
and Thought is the child of Action.”
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
P8 PYP Exhibition
Thanks to all P8 parents who participated in
the two PYP Exhibition parent information
sessions held in the P8 Class.

This has been Irada’s last week with us as she will
be on leave to have her wonderful, new baby. We
wish her health, happiness and fulfillment.
We are fortunate to have Gulnara as our
assistant, replacing Irada until her return.
Gulnara has fit in well and enjoys her new
assignment with the children of P8.
P8 Student Council
Our P8 representatives continue to model collaborative and
pro-active attitudes and skills within the Primary Student
Council’s weekly meetings.
Recent Initiatives are:
Dr. Seuss’ Birthday Celebration
Leap Day Celebration
School Safety Check
PTA- Shed Equipment
Clothes for Disabled Children
P8 Shared Sessions
P8 students discussed UNESCO’S “Rights of the Child”, viewed
Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and brainstormed in groups to
create their own hierarchy of needs, based on their reality.
The P8 teaching team
has invited a variety
of adults to share
their passions with the
P8 students in our
common sessions.
These sessions will
focus on how people
developed their
passions, how they
were formed and how
they are used.

P8 Students in Action
Demonstrating the essential elements of the
PYP Transdisciplinary Skills
Thinking Skills-Analysis
Separating into component parts;
seeing relationships, finding
unique characteristics.
Self Management-
Spatial Awareness
Displaying a sensitivity to the
position of objects in relation to
oneself or each other.
Social Skills-
Cooperating
Working cooperatively in a group;
being courteous and respectful.
Learning with you: Mr. Terry, Ms. Nicole, Mr. Michael, Ms. Sheila, Miss Gulnara, Miss Natasha