Mrs Inkson (Head of Year 6)
On Wednesday 29th June, the much-anticipated Year 6 PYP Exhibition took place. The Primary Years Programme (PYP) Exhibition is an opportunity for the classes to collaborate in small groups to demonstrate all the skills they have developed throughout their time at BGS Junior School. This was the culmination of all our hard work researching and presenting our learning on global issues that we feel passionate about.
Each group produced an exhibit that not only shared information about the issue in the form of written work, statistics, creative art work and digital content, but also provided information about what action people can take to help address the issue. The range of global issues chosen was huge including sustainable fashion, prejudice, world hunger, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality, deforestation and poaching. The exhibits were vibrant, creative and beautifully presented.
In addition to all the prepared work the girls had done, they had to plan and practice what they were going to say to our visitors. The groups had the opportunity to ‘practise’ their presentations skills during the day when the rest of the Junior School came around to visit. In the evening, we welcomed friends and family to see our Exhibition and share our learning.
View photos from the exhibition here.
Student reflections about the exhibition:
Elaina: “It was really fun. We worked with new people and developed our communication skills. I loved researching and finding out more about Homelessness. I never realised that homeless people felt invisible – at least we could all give them a smile!”
Francesca: “It was an enjoyable experience. You had to put in a lot of work and depth to be able to put the exhibition all together. Our research was important to ensure that we had the depth that we wanted. Our action has taught us to spread awareness about endangered animals and maybe this will make different people want to help support that issue.”
Natalie: “I felt that we developed our collaboration skills when we were working as a group as we had to make compromises when we all had different ideas. As we were looking into LGBTQ+ rights, it was difficult trying to rephrase some of the content so that it would be appropriate for younger classes.”
Sasha: “We had to really think carefully when planning our lesson about endangered animals for Year 3 to make it accessible, fun and interactive for them.”
Miya: “Making our creative element out of clay was quite challenging as it kept falling apart so we had to use our problem-solving skills to figure out how to make it work.”
Esme: “I really liked that we got to choose what we researched and how we did it which meant that we could choose a topic that we felt really interested in. We all did something quite different for our creative art work which was an exciting experience.”
Violet: “We would like to thank everyone who has helped us work towards our Exhibition, including the catering staff at Green’s Kitchen who made our lovely celebration cake!”
Woodside Church on behalf of Bedford Food Bank: “I wanted to send a big thank you to everyone at the school who kindly donated. To know that we have such warmth, kindness and generosity within the Bedford community is such a blessing.”
