Building our own country!

Unit

This week the classes of PYP7 have been developing the identity and first official documents of their countries.

In creating an identity for their country, the students have gained an understanding that traits like symbols, mottos and aspects of culture affect how the country is perceived by others.

PYP7Omega Portuguese assembly, discussing Brazilian political history.

Official constitutions have also been drawn up, with groups recording the rights and freedoms of its citizens and significant laws of their countries. In doing so, the groups have needed to consider how these laws came into effect, with some countries showing understanding of checks and balances and others showing outright autocracy!

PYP7 Beta presenting their governments 

Maths

This week has been all about angles – with PYP7 students using protractors to measure and classify angles. Next week continues our study of geometry - we will examine area and perimeter.

A group in PYP7Sigma - collaborating on their country's first official document. 

Language

Now that creation stories from around the world have been examined and students have identified common features – we are now going through the writing process of writing our own (based on our own invented countries!), with an emphasis on the editing phase.