Dr. Christine Orkisz Lang
Test the PYP Exhibition Cycle at your school, free for a limited time
The IB PYP Exhibition (PYPx) is a culminating, collaborative experience in which students explore, document, and share their understanding of issues that matter to them. It is student-led, inquiry-based, and grounded in action, and it sits at the heart of the IB Primary Years Programme as a celebration of student agency and learning.
At the same time, PYP coordinators and teachers know how challenging it can be to ensure that all elements of the PYP Exhibition are developed with clarity, consistency, and balance across the process.
To support this, we have developed the PYP Exhibition Cycle Guide and accompanying student materials. These are designed to provide a clear structure while keeping inquiry at the center, and are already available to all Qridi Core users.
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A seven-stage PYP Exhibition framework
The Qridi Core Exhibition Cycle is organized into seven stages, supporting the development of understanding over time. Each stage is built around purposeful learning experiences, with opportunities for students to pause, reflect, and capture their thinking.
From choosing a meaningful issue to sharing and celebrating learning, the materials guide both PYP coordinators and classroom teachers through a coherent journey that makes expectations and progress visible throughout the entire PYPx process.
Designed for balance across the IB PYP
A key feature of these materials is the intentional balance across:
Learning engagements are explicitly designed and distributed across all seven stages to support this balance. The materials can be used as a complete PYP Exhibition framework or alongside existing school practices to strengthen clarity and consistency.
This means that students are not only inquiring into an issue that is meaningful to them, but also developing the skills, conceptual understanding, and dispositions that sit at the heart of the IB Primary Years Programme.
Making learning visible throughout the PYPx
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The real strength of this approach comes from how learning is captured over time.
Students regularly pause at key moments to document their thinking through writing, audio, video, images, or models. Reflection is embedded throughout the PYP Exhibition process, supporting both deep thinking and ongoing progress.
This ensures that the Exhibition is not just a final product, but a visible learning journey, with genuine evidence of student agency at every stage.
An invitation to explore
We are currently inviting IB PYP schools to explore these materials within Qridi Core.
As part of our testing phase, a number of schools will be able to access the full PYP Exhibition experience free of charge, with no obligation, in exchange for feedback. This includes schools already using other platforms who may wish to use Qridi Core specifically for the Exhibition.
You can begin by downloading the teacher guide and Stage 1 materials here.
If you are interested in exploring the full PYP Exhibition Cycle within Qridi Core, and seeing how this structured approach can support your school, we would love to hear from you.
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