At the end of Grade 5 all students participate in the Primary Years Programme Exhibition. It is a significant event in the life of a PYP school and student: an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the IB Learner Profile that they have been developing throughout their engagement with the PYP and to celebrate their transition from Primary to Middle/Secondary school.

The PYP Exhibition:

• presents an occasion for students to demonstrate their abilities to be self-directed learners
• requires students to synthesise their prior learning and apply it to an unfamiliar situation, thus providing an appropriate assessment strategy for real understanding
• provides an opportunity for greater involvement and for the School community as a whole to gain more insight into the PYP programme
• facilitates all of the student profiles and attributes (most of all risk-taking)
• focuses on all key questions that drive the inquiry (form, function, causation, change, connection, perspective, responsibility, and reflection)
• requires the application of all the transdisciplinary skills
• incorporates all the transdisciplinary themes
• offers opportunities to develop positive attitudes
• allows for positive “action” contribution by students.

In 2008, Hampstead and Kensington students investigated the following areas for their PYP Exhibitions:

• The different pressures that face young people in our community
• How students can have a greater role in school decision-making
• Issues facing the elderly
• The impact of technology on young people
• Addiction
• Friendship
• Physical health
• Sibling relationships
• How animal group dynamics relate to human group dynamics.

Action resulting from these projects included the establishment of a Friendship Garden at Kensington and a buddy system between Hampstead pupils and local elderly folk.