Grade 5 TIS students explaining their exhibition piece to other students and a teacher. CHRISTOPHER FROST.
Tokyo International School’s grade five students held an exhibition last month, to showcase the skills they learned throughout the International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (IBPYP).
The IBPYP is designed to prepare students to become lifelong learners. Each year, students design and carry out their own, independent large-scale inquiry. Student groups take control of the whole process while teachers sit back as facilitators rather than instructors.
Universal concepts such as poverty, interdependence, health, and exploration shape the content of the curriculum. An emphasis on discipline skills such as experimental design, mathematics, IT, and reading also play a major role.
The exhibition day culminated with multi- media presentations and information booths where students creatively communicated their learning to the whole school community.
PYP Coordinator Christopher Frost said, “I felt great pride and delight in the accomplishment of our grade 5 ‘exhibitionists.’ The children demonstrated with confidence that they were indeed well along the road of lifelong learning!”
