by Andrew CLARKE | Oct 23, 2014 | Creativity, Action, Service, Front Page, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
This week we announced the start of Peer Tutoring in the SLS! Receiving tutoring from a peer is a great way to support learning. Studies show that peer tutoring can be highly effective for both parties, helping students and tutors to consolidate their knowledge and...
by Andrew CLARKE | Oct 23, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
Our new goats have been very inspiring! Students from G6 studying Paleolithic art have been drawing them to experience how cave artists might have made their art: they observed the goats and then went back to their paper and charcoal and tried to make a drawing. Some...
by Andrew CLARKE | Oct 16, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
Grades 6, 7 and 8 have completed their Elements of Art project this week. This has consisted of various investigations such as studying the seven elements, analysing the work of artists, practising drawing skills, colour theory and paint-mixing. Grade 6 will progress...
by Andrew CLARKE | Oct 16, 2014 | Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
Grade 10s are half-way through the preparatory stage of their IGCSE coursework projects. They are now taking their ideas into an experimental stage: they have been and will be using media such as charcoal, pen and ink, chalk pastels, oil pastels, watercolours, acrylic...
by Andrew CLARKE | Oct 15, 2014 | Grade 9, Secondary English
How well do you know your neighbor? Are childhood memories reliable? What is the significance of perception? Do different realities exist? These are all questions that we’ll be answering as we read the first IGCSE novel of the course: Spies by Michael Frayn. Set...
