Oxford Resources for IB
Primary Years Programme
Oxford Resources for IB
Primary Years Programme
My Reflection Journal is your place to reflect
on the approaches to learning skills:
Social Self-management Research
Communication Thinking
It helps you reflect on your learner profile and
consider which attributes you’d like to develop. My Reflection Journals
It helps you reflect on your inquiries, on the
concepts you are exploring and the action you take.
It helps you explore the UN Sustainable
Development Goals, and how they connect
with your inquiries.
It is your journal – to record your thinking, ideas
and emotions and to work with others.
Regular reflection makes you a better learner.
It makes you more aware of yourself and others.
Enjoy!
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Contents
Getting started Social skills
3. Using my journal................................ 27. Interpersonal relationships ............
4. Our Essential Agreements ................ 28. Collaboration ...................................
6. Reflecting on my learner profile ...... 29. Teamwork ..........................................
9. Taking action ...................................... 30. Taking action ....................................
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Self-management skills Communication skills
10. Setting goals .................................... 31. Exchanging information ..................
11. Planning achievable goals ................ 32. Listening to others speak ................
12. Persevering to achieve goals ..........
13. Taking action ....................................
14. Emotions in conflict .........................
pa 33. Speaking to an audience ..................
34. Asking for help and support ............
35. Giving and receiving feedback .........
15. Managing my emotions .................... 36. Taking action ....................................
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16. Finding solutions to conflicts .......... 37. Ways of communicating ..................
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17. Using strategies to resolve 38. Trying different types of
conflict ............................................. communication .................................
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18. Mindfulness....................................... 39. Planning how to communicate .........
19. Overcoming distractions.................. 40. Taking action ....................................
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20. Practising being present.................
21. Using the senses ..............................
22. Taking action....................................
23. Self-motivation ...............................
24. Using positive thinking ....................
25. Reflecting on my mindset ...............
26. Taking action ....................................
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Research skills
60. Sources of information ...................
Thinking skills Research skills
62. Forming questions ...........................
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41. Transferring knowledge ................... 60. Sources of information ................... T
63. Using my thinking skills to
43. My metacognition ............................. 62. Forming questions ........................... i
develop an inquiry ............................
44. Making connections .......................... 63. Using my thinking
64. Reflecting skills to
on my inquiry ................. T
45. Using metacognition to help develop an inquiry ............................
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66. Using media ethically....................... R
my learning ...................................... 64. Reflecting on my inquiry ................. a
67. Finding trusted sources of
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46. Critical and creative thinking ......... 66. Using media ......................................
information ethically....................... R
47. Thinking critically ........................... 67. Findingthe
68. Using trusted
internetsources of
responsibly .......
48. Applying creative thinking .............. information ......................................
69. Taking action ....................................
50. Thinking and planning action ..........
52. Transferring knowledge: pa
the SDGs ...........................................
68. Using the internet responsibly .......
Final
69. reflections
Taking action ....................................
70. Reflecting on my year .....................
Final reflections
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55. What is taking action?...................... 72. What’s next? ....................................
70. Reflecting on my year .....................
56. Reflecting on action .........................
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72. What’s next? ....................................
58. How might the learner profile
connect with change? .......................
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Practising being present
Use your sense of hearing to connect to the present moment.
Close your eyes for a minute and focus on what you can hear.
Record the sounds that were closest to you in the smaller circle.
Record the sounds that were further away in the bigger circle.
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How might using your senses help you to learn?
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Using the senses
Sometimes, when we are distracted, it helps to bring ourselves back to the present.
Practice this strategy:
• stop what you are doing for a moment
• notice what you can see, hear and feel.
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Things I can see
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Things I can hear
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Things I can feel
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Transferring knowledge
Being knowledgeable allows us to transfer our past knowledge
to help us with new understanding.
transfer
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My last inquiry My new inquiry
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Reflect on the graph below. What can you tell about this learner?
I am very
knowledgeable
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I don’t have
much knowledge
Insects Well-being Ecosystems Energy
Reflecting on what you already know can help you learn new things.
This person knows a lot about insects but very little about ecosystems.
Can any of their knowledge be transferred?
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Transferring knowledge
What are you most/least knowledgeable about?
Write an example in each yellow box.
Reflect on where you are today with your knowledge.
Colour the squares in the chart to show your self-assessment.
Five squares = lots of knowledge
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One square = little knowledge
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I am very
knowledgeable
about this
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I don’t have
much knowledge WW
about this HH
Things I am learning
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Reflecting
Reflecting on
on action
action
Young people around the world have been
principled and helped to create positive change.
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speechwaswasvery
verypowerful
powerfuland
andhelped
helpedtoto
encourage
encourageaction.
action.
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you wonder?
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Zach Bonner
After a hurricane (a big tropical
storm) hit his town in Florida, Zach
set to work helping people who were
homeless.
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st bottles to people in need when he
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was just six years old!
Leah Namugerwa
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Leah lives in Uganda, where climate change has caused
extreme weather. Sometimes there are droughts, where
there is no rain. Other times there are floods. Leah has
planted more than 3000 trees. These trees take up water
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when there is heavy rainfall. This helps to prevent floods.
pl
How might the learner profile connect with Zach
and Leah’s actions?
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Sa
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