Thank you to the entire ISPP School Community for a fantastic 2014 Grade 5 Exhibition!

Dear students, parents, mentors, experts, and teachers who were involved in the ISPP Grade 5 Exhibition of 2014,

The 2014 Exhibition teaching team would like to thank all of you for your support and participation in the Grade 5 Exhibition this year! The children grew a tremendous amount in the course of their research and the effects of this period before their transition to the secondary school will undoubtedly be a highlight of their elementary school experience.

This blog will now be shut down for the year. As posts will begin in January 2015 concerning the next Exhibition, you may want to UNSUBSCRIBE to this blog at this time.

Best of luck to all of you over the holidays,

The 2014 Exhibition Teaching Team

Exhibition Night, May 22, 2014 Schedule and Rotations

The Exhibition Evening is rapidly approaching. The students are busily putting together summative assessments, action plans, journals, and blogs to showcase their learning in an all encompassing presentation on the night of Thursday, May 22.

We would like to inform you of some times and procedures for this night that will hopefully ensure your enjoyment of this evening with your children and all of the Exhibition students. These procedures have been created to maximise the amount of discussion and presenting that the Exhibition students will engage in. We will allow everyone freedom to roam after each issue group has had the opportunity to discuss and present twice.

Exhibition Evening, Thursday, May 22

5:15 PM in Ms. Alison's Room (Students only): Grade 5 Exhibition students must return to ISPP. Students will, at this time, set up computers and technology for their kiosks, get into their Exhibition uniforms, and will be addressed by their Exhibition teachers.

6:00 - 6:25 PM on Basketball Court (All parents, teachers, mentors, experts, and students): Exhibition opening presentation. Welcome. Poems. Song.

6:25 - 6:30 PM: Exhibition students go to their venues in the Media Center, Ms. Bridget's room (36), and Mr. Jon's room (37). Parents, mentors, and experts follow their own children and students. Other guests choose which room venue to go to.

6:40 - 7:10 PM: Students do first round of short presentations followed by 10 minutes for parents to discuss issues with various groups in that venue.

7:10 - 7:15 PM: Adults rotate. From Media Center, adults go to Ms. Bridget's room. From Ms. Bridget's room, adults go to Mr. Jon's room. From Mr. Jon's room, adults go to Media Center.

7:15 - 7:40 PM: Students do second round of short presentations followed by short discussions with adults present.

7:40 - 8:00 PM: Adults and students may circulate freely and look at the Hall of Blogs, Guest Speaker Quadrants, and other issue groups' work while discussing learning with all students.

Thank You to Parents Who Came Into the Second Exhibition Open House and Exhibition 2014 Evening...

Again, the Exhibition teachers and students greatly appreciated parental visits on Friday, May 16! Students enjoyed discussing their action plans for how they will address their chosen issues and getting feedback from caring adults on group work, ideas, and presentations. As we discussed at the Parents' Information Evening, your continuing support of the students is a crucial aspect of their success during this unit. A million thanks go out to you for your efforts with all of our young learners.

We look forward to seeing all parents, experts, teachers, and mentors again at our 2014 Exhibition Evening this Thursday, May 22, at 6 PM on the basketball court. The children are preparing a short presentation to welcome all of you there before sharing their knowledge of their issues and their Exhibition journeys in Ms. Bridget's room, Mr. Jon's room, and the Elementary Media Center.

We will send out more detailed information about how the night will run closer to the evening itself.

Please fill out this survey about your perspectives on pollution!

Dear ISPP community members (and beyond),

If you have a few spare moments, please fill out this form from the Exhibition's Pollution Group. They would like to know your perspectives on pollution.

ISPP Pollution Survey

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Reminder: Tomorrow, Friday, May 16th, from 7:45 until 8:30, is parents' open house to discuss action plans and summative assessments!

Dear Parents,

As previously mentioned, tomorrow morning from 7:45 until 8:30 you are welcome to come to Room 36 and Room 37 to discuss the action plans and summative assessment plans of each issue group.

This will be an informal meeting as the children are very busy working on summative assessments to bring together all of the knowledge that they have been learning.

You may want to ask the students questions like:

• What are you working on this week?
• What action or actions has your group decided to take?
• Is your action a direct action, indirect action, or advocacy?
• Where will your action take place?
• Who will be the target audience for your action?
• What makes you think your action will help solve your issue?
• What are some challenges you might face in doing your action?
• What are you making to show all of your knowledge?
• What technology are you using as part of your action and/or your summative assessment?
• How are you dividing up the work between your group members?
• Is there a leader of your group?
• What things have you found challenging this week?

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Ms. Penny Fields, Country Director for the Peace Corps, Talks to Grade 5s About Action!

The Grade 5 Exhibition Teaching Team and the Grade 5 students greatly appreciated having a chat with Ms. Penny Fields, the Cambodia Country Director for the U.S. Peace Corps on Thursday, May 8. Ms. Fields discussed the activities of the Peace Corps around the world and talked about how volunteers assist in the development of Education and Health sectors in rural Cambodia. Students listened raptly as Ms. Fields told some of her own stories of being a Peace Corps volunteer in Gabon. Thank you for your visit and for inspiring the Grade 5s to think hard about the actions they will take next week to address their Exhibition issues!  

Thank you to all parents for coming to our Open House!

The Exhibition Teaching Team and the Exhibition students would like to express their deep thanks for your consultations from last Thursday, May 8! Students benefitted enormously from sharing their research findings with all of you.

Please check out their blog entries from our Useful Links page! We hope to see you all again this Friday, May 16 from 7:45-8:30 in Room 36 and Room 37 to discuss ACTION!

Please see photos of the Open House by checking out our Picasa Web Album.