My Exhibition is about resolving conflict with game design. I chose this because with my friends I have lots of little tiny arguments that don’t matter. Another thing I wanted to focus on was to learn about game design because I thought it would be an interesting skill to learn. When I am playing my games I control myself so there is no conflict. If there is conflict then I help other people resolve it or I can calm myself down. The exhibition has helped me not have so many arguments with my friends. That means that we have more time to play games, and if we do have conflict now I know how to handle them. During the Exhibition it was quite challenging when we went into home based learning. I found it challenging because I wasn’t happy that I had to do all my attempts on a call. It made making the games so much harder since I couldn’t do all of my ideas.

My artistic piece is a snake and ladder board. In every box is how I reacted to the conflict. At first it was all red but after some time it turned to all green. There is also a big piece sign near the end of the snakes and ladder. It represents peace at the end of the problem. I was hoping from now on I could find peace with my friends. My faces represent my feelings during the attempts in the exhibition. I got inspired to do it when I was thinking about symbols in the brainstorm. I was thinking what could I do that represents game design and resolving conflict. I thought of my idea and it was perfect.

For my exhibition I decided to explore organisation and time management in cooking. I wanted to challenge myself at these atl’s. Cooking was easy and hard, I had ups and downs. I did baking and cooking. It wasn’t easy. I had to make sure I was organised and my time wasn’t a waste. I think I have done well throughout this journey. Cooking was definitely for me. I think I have made a good decision and I’m not going to look back and regret this.

My symbolic piece was a clock with food as the numbers. It’s about my time and the arrows facing are where I’m at out of 10. The food is what I cooked through this journey.

The journey connects to me because it shows what I have done and how I feel. The symbolic piece isn’t just about me but also my exhibition. It connects to me and tells about my journey and what I did with it.

Text cut and paFor my exhibition, I chose to do public speaking. I wanted to do public speaking because I am really uncomfortable with doing it. Throughout the exhibition, I learned that when things are tough, you have to keep going, because that’s the key to success in life. You also have to push yourself and don’t allow yourself to make boundaries or limitations for yourself.

So I decided that for my art piece, I would create something that really sums up how my year 6 has been, with a lot of ups and downs, positives and negatives, and lots of great opportunities to expand my skill set.

The colour blue represents the sad times that I have had. The red shows the times I was scared, for example, when I was about to give my first speech/presentation, I was really scared and upset, so already I have just connected 2 of my emotions! The yellow stands for proud, during this exhibition I have tried to get my best work done, and that hasn’t been easy with all that has happened, but during home-based learning, I haven’t had to do anything other than exhibition due to my eyes, so it hasn’t been too hard (still hard). The colour orange represents “relief”. And what I mean by that is, when I finish presenting, I have a big sigh of relief and I feel good. Green means healthy. During the exhibition, I have been trying to stay healthy and positive. This year hasn’t been easy for anyone, and I’m just trying to get through it with a smile on my face (as much as possible). Lastly, the colour pink. It means happy and I think it is a good colour to represent “happy” because it’s nice and bright and it never really means anything negative.

I put a reflection of the crowd of people I was “presenting” to in my drawing to show that I was presenting a speech to link the picture in with the exhibition.

This year I have grown a lot as a learner, and a person. Having an IPad has given me more responsibility and trust. I also had to stop wearing glasses because I recently found out that they were not helping, so now at the time of writing, I am doing therapy 5 days a week.

Ilearned a lot about myself, and others this year, and I am excited for what could happen in the near future,

I chose to learn Spanish for my PYP Exhibition, hoping that learning a language will improve my perseverance, resilience and time management. Learning languages is something that I knew I enjoyed and could challenge me. I started off too overconfident and didn’t rate myself on what I deserved, however I started understanding that it wasn’t true, and I wasn’t being hard enough on myself. I thought about what the exhibition was about “Individuals grow by challenging their personal limits,” and realised that was not what I was. I was way too dependent, but that’s what the PYP exhibition helped me in and over the weeks I was trying to improve my Spanish as well as my ATLS and independence. I think the PYP exhibition is the best exhibition I have ever done for self-improvement.

I named my art piece “Evolution Through art”, as my art piece shows how I felt as a learner and how I am growing. I tried to focus on the idea of showing my learning journey as a forest. I chose the forest idea because a forest represents stepping into the unknown, into something new, the monkey climbing its way steps to the next tree and getting ready for the next. The symbols around represent different ATL’S. For example, the bird represents growth and the owl represents learning. Together this entire forest represents my journey throughout the exhibition.

The connection between my art piece and my exhibition journey is that I am learning something extremely new to me and with the help of other people in the ecosystem, I am able to accomplish my goal. I think that this was an art piece to state my thinking, emotions and journey.