For my PYP Exhibition I am doing public speaking. I chose to do public speaking because whenever I had to come up and speak, I was always scared and nervous. I chose this because it would really help me as a student and in the future as an adult. Although I thought that this would be easy, it was challenging in many different ways. At first I had no clue when things were due or when I had to present. So I ended up making my presentation at the last possible second. The other challenges were to do the presentation, try to work on the feedback, and try to keep the high scores and good progress. With the online learning, it makes all the challenges even harder. I also don’t get much help from teachers because we are at home all the time, but that doesn‘t mean I don’t get any help.

For my artistic piece I chose to make a drawing that shows myself presenting in front of people. My first artistic piece has myself, a board that says public speaking and the circles for people. The people had been colored to show that there was differences. Then I got feedback to work on where I should draw actual people, draw myself in different postures to show my confidence building up and to draw something that is different to just Public Speaking.

This connects to my journey through Exhibition because it shows a drawing of the start and the finish and in each different section, the person in the forest is at a different place. This shows how I started at the river, then to the road in the forest, to near the end, then to the clear patch of grass at the finish. I also tried different ideas like a mountain, roller coaster and ocean. Then I found out that a majority of people chose to do something connected with a roller coaster and a mountain so I chose to do the forest. I chose to draw a forest because it is really wild and because you never know what might happen while your in a forest. On the last section where everyone will be clapping and green, I want my drawing to be like that because I want my journey through Exhibition to end with a great reward.

For my exhibition I chose cooking because I was not confident at it and I got interested in this. Before I started the exhibition I thought it's going to be easy and always fun, however, when I started it was difficult and not always fun. Because now I am doing it from home and when I was researching I always got bored because research is not fun. In addition I need to do it by myself.

For my ATLs I chose time management because I don’t really feel confident with this. My artistic piece was related to time management so I drew what I always have to do before cooking and I drew a clock in the middle of the artistic piece because clock is a good symbol for time management

In the feature I can cook for my families because I am already confident at it. Aso sometimes when I am cooking I feel like I am the chef. I think exhibition was big big challenge for me because I can improve something new.

My Exhibition journey has been quite fun and successful. I have been doing art for my Exhibition and I have gotten really good at it. When we got told that we were going to be doing an Exhibition I thought it would be quite easy, but trust me, I was wrong. I think the hardest part about Exhibition was doing the journal. It took ages to set up but now it was worth it.

The skills that I learnt in Year 6 is to ask questions if you're confused, so you can get help. I also learnt to be a good communicator because when I joined the school it was already Term Three! So everyone else had friends to do stuff with but I didn't so I had to learn how to be a good communicator so I could make friends

My artistic piece is a picture of the shoe I drew, and coming out of the shoe were birds. The reason it is birds coming out of my shoes is because birds can go up and down when they are flying right? When birds are in the sky it means I am doing very well and if they fly close to the ground I'm doing ok but if they are on the ground I'm doing bad. This relates to my Exhibition journey because the background is my shoe and I drew it, I also put birds coming out of the shoe to represent the ups and downs of that drawing.

For my PYP exhibition I chose public speaking. Public speaking has been a real nightmare for me ever since I knew about it. I am a really shy person in class and that could be one of the reasons I’m so scared of it. I chose this topic because I wanted to not be afraid anymore and challenge myself, Guess what it worked! It turns out if you practice and practice and practice it tells your brain “I’m not scared anymore”.

In my artistic piece there is a stage with four pictures of me, In one I’m super confident and closer to the stage, two a bit scared but quite close to the stage, three I look hunched and really scared, and in the last one I’m running away because I’m too scared to even show up. As you can see I’m getting smaller as I go down and that represents my stages in confidence. If you look in the audience well I can’t see the audience, just a whole lot of eyes! The eyes represent that when I am presenting I feel like all eyes are on me and that is one of the reasons why I am afraid of speaking in front of a big audience but over time I realised they are just waiting for me to present my amazing presentation.

This artistic piece connect’s to my journey, what I am doing, and where I am right now so I am very proud of this artistic piece.