Year 6 Art Gallery Excursion
On Thursday 20 July, Year 6 went on an excursion to the Art Gallery of New South Wales as a provocation for our PYP Exhibition. We visited the Art Gallery because the theme of the PYP Exhibition for this year is ‘How We Express Ourselves’. At the gallery, we examined artworks from the past and present in many different forms. We saw sculptures, paintings, installations, videos and sound rooms, abstract and historical art. We had the opportunity to participate in an artwork by shaping clay into spheres. It was great to get our hands on and be a part of the artwork.
During the week in class, we looked at various ways that humans can express themselves including, music, art, dance, writing, traditions, sign language and photography, just to name a few. When we returned from the gallery, we summarised our perceptions about culture and used this to formulate a draft of our own central idea: “Purposeful expression seeks to affirm or challenge cultural norms”. This will guide all of us throughout our Exhibition, regardless of what we end up inquiring into.
Year 6 is looking forward to proposing issues that we can investigate further in the coming weeks.
By Lawson Sutton and Viduk Ambegoda
2023 PYP Exhibition
The PYP Exhibition is the culminating experience for students in their final year of the International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme. Students explore, document, and share their understanding of an issue or opportunity of personal and global significance.
This year the PYP Exhibition will provide the students with the opportunity to engage in a collaborative inquiry into the transdisciplinary theme of ‘How We Express Ourselves’. Students will be inquiring into the central idea “Purposeful expression seeks to affirm or challenge cultural norms”.
Stay tuned for more information, but for now you can ‘Save the Date’!
Year 6 PYP Exhibition, 2023:
- Term 3, Week 10
- Wednesday September 20
- 6.00pm
All are welcome - Parents, Carers, Grandparents, Aunties, Uncles, Siblings other PYP Schools, members of local community
The more, the merrier!
Mr Mark Gannon
Assistant Head of Junior School & PYP Coordinator