Parents/Guardians

Parent(s)/Guardian(s) role and responsibilities:

Essential responsibilities:

• Allow your child to have voice, choice and ownership throughout the Exhibition process.

• Emphasise with your child that the focus is the process rather than the product.

• Be available to discuss the exhibition process with your child each week.

• Be supportive, encouraging, and provide positive feedback to your child throughout the process.

• Help guide and monitor your child in their setting/accomplishment of specific tasks/weekly goals.

• Attend the two Present, Connect, Reflect sessions on Zoom during the Exhibition process.

• Offer your expertise in areas that may support your child or other students in Year 6 during the process.

Weekly support focus topics may include (to be communicated weekly on the exhibition website):

• Suggest primary sources (in English or your home language), help interpret difficult information, guide your child to facilitate interviews or Zoom/telephone calls/emails.

• Support your child with developing their organisational skills, in particular, organising and filing relevant documentation, as needed.

• Be responsible for some aspects of ongoing assessments – provide opportunities for your child to reflect on their knowledge, understanding, approaches to learning (skills) and attributes of the learner profile in their Exhibition journal.

• Communicate your child’s successes and/or concerns to Year 6 teachers in a timely manner so they can follow up with the student.

Source: International Baccaulaureate Organization (2018). PYP: From Principles into Practice: The learner.