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"Why is there global warming?" "What are the consequences of melting glaciers?" "How can we reduce the amount of rubbish in our lives?" To answer these questions, the primary students of ISA Wenhua Wuhan Primary School gave their own answers to the questions. On January 5th, ISA Wenhua Wuhan held the "UOI Open Month Activity", through the drawing exhibition, student presentations, experimental demonstrations, interactive games, parents' classroom, etc., for the members of the ISA community and parents from outside the school, a comprehensive demonstration of the complete inquiry course.

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ISA Wenhua Wuhan Primary School uses the Chinese National Curriculum as its main line of emphasis and the IB PYP curriculum as its teaching framework. The IB PYP UOI is a student-centred programme with an inter-disciplinary theme of inquiry, which is an important part of the IB curriculum framework.

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The programme covers six themes each year, each of which is studied over six weeks and has six specific steps. For example, before and after the Year 6 final exhibition, Years 3 and 4 will also have a final exhibition on the theme of "How do we express ourselves?", where students will demonstrate the beauty of the fusion of art and science by making T-shirts of world famous paintings and building model bridges and buildings.

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ISA Wenhua Wuhan Primary School uses the world as its teaching material, problem-based, concept-driven, and inquiry-based learning methods to broaden children's horizons, stimulate students' interest in exploring the world and critical thinking, and to help students develop a sense of lifelong learning and become global citizens with a sense of social service in a multicultural environment.

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In the Open Month activity on 10 January, Year 6 students carried out a final exhibition entitled "Interacting with Nature - Investigating the Mysteries of the Earth's Ecological Functioning", focusing on the theme of the current stage of the curriculum, "Sharing the Earth", and became "Little Teachers" for their parents, demonstrating their mastery and application of knowledge in the Parents' Classroom, and exploring the knowledge of the world with them, so as to nourish the friendship between them.

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Students used their own PPTs to talk about the environmental challenges facing the Earth, edited their own videos to visually reflect the dangers of rising sea levels, and students demonstrated the process of carbon dioxide production through chemical experiments. Jointly calling for a low-carbon life, starting from themselves, improving the use of goods to reduce the production of rubbish, save paper to protect the forest ......

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"Parents were not involved in the whole subject, and the children co-operated with each other, looked up information, did experiments, made PPTs and wrote manuscripts on their own, and were finally able to present confidently and generously." G6 Shine's mother, said." There are no standard answers in the UOI inquiry programme, the children don't have to learn by rote, but they exercise their data collection skills, scientific inquiry skills, teamwork skills, language expression skills and so on during the progress of the programme, which I think are exactly the abilities they should be required for their lifelong development."

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"The knowledge gained and the ability enhanced from one's own enquiry is the most precious." said Yang Hong, Deputy Head of ISA Wenhua Wuhan School and Principal of ISA Wenhua Wuhan Primary School. At the school, six UOI inquiry lessons are fixed every week for each grade, in which students take the lead through for pre-introduction, gathering information, organising information, conducting in-depth research, drawing conclusions, and finally taking action, all on their own, with the teacher adopting a guided approach to teaching. Students research, act and reflect on their activities, thereby acquiring interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, improving their thinking and learning abilities, and stimulating learning initiative.

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The UOI Unit of Inquiry Open Month activities are still going on, you are welcome to make an appointment to register and participate. If you want to know more about ISA Wenhua Wuhan Primary School's curriculum, teaching staff, settings, etc., you can scan the QR code of the poster below and participate in our Open Day to be held on Saturday January 20th, and we are looking forward to your participation.