HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

Students will explore how media connects with our thinking, shapes our views, and influences actions. They will inquire into how we consume media, its elements, and its impact. Through this concept-driven approach, students will develop understanding of perspective, function, and responsibility. They will learn to question what they see, recognize bias, and practise safe, respectful media use. This year-long unit builds research, communication, and thinking skills, helping students become informed, principled, and responsible users of media.

CONTENT CREATORS

In this unit, students will explore how content is created to capture and influence the attention of different audiences. They will investigate how media messages are created for different purposes and how the way information is presented can influence how people think, feel, and respond. Students will develop their critical thinking skills by considering how media can shape opinions, attitudes, and decisions, as well as recognising that people may interpret the same message in different ways. Alongside developing their understanding of media, students will have opportunities to become content creators themselves, learning how to plan, design, and create a range of media, including videos, posters, audio messages, and other digital and visual forms of communication.

FRACTIONS

Students will explore how fractions, decimals, and percentages represent parts of a whole and connect to each other. Through inquiry, they will model, compare, and operate with these forms using real-world problems. They will develop strategies to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and decimals. Visual tools and hands-on tasks will support deep understanding. Students will build skills in reasoning, communication, and problem-solving, learning to explain their thinking clearly and apply concepts flexibly in everyday contexts.

SHAPE & SPACE

Students will investigate how shapes, space, and position help us understand and interact with our environment. They will explore properties of 2D and 3D shapes, measure and construct angles, and use scale, coordinates, and geometric tools to solve problems. Through inquiry, students will develop spatial reasoning and visualize relationships between shapes. They will build skills in classifying, drawing, and transforming shapes, and applying geometry in real-life contexts. This unit deepens understanding through hands-on exploration, reflection, and collaboration.

PYP Exhibition 

In this unit, integrated with the PYP Exhibition, students will mobilise and apply the Portuguese language knowledge, skills and strategies developed throughout the PYP to inquire, construct meaning and communicate their learning independently and purposefully. According to the needs of their projects, they will select and produce different types of written, oral, visual and multimodal texts, making decisions about structure, language, register, organisation and presentation resources according to purpose, audience and context.

Students will critically read, select, interpret, synthesise and communicate information, construct and justify ideas, and integrate different perspectives and evidence. They may use interviews when relevant to their inquiry, formulating questions, listening actively and using responses as sources of information and perspective. Through planning, creating, revising and presenting their content, students will demonstrate increasing independence, creativity and responsibility in using the Portuguese language as a tool for inquiry, expression and action.

MOVEMENT,  MEDIA AND EXPRESSION

Students will develop their skills through Gymnastics and Artistic Swimming, with a focus on creativity, expression, communication, performance, and reflection. Integrated with the Year 6 How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry, students will explore how movement can communicate ideas and how media can influence the way we perceive athletes, performances, and success. They will create and analyse performances while considering how these may be presented and interpreted through media. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will adapt skills to new physical activities, collaborate with others, create increasingly complex movement sequences, and use movement to express personal and cultural ideas.