by Andrew JOHNSON | Mar 24, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8
In English we have started a new unit called ‘How do I know what is right?’ Based upon the memoir ‘Red Scarf Girl’ by Ji-Li Jiang. This is based on her experience of the Cultural revolution in China. Students have explored the context of the book...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Mar 16, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
Grade 9 students have just completed their interdisciplinary unit called ‘Voices from History.’ They investigated different examples of persecution from across the world and recent history and studied ways that these have been reported, recorded or reflected on....
by Andrew JOHNSON | Mar 9, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In English students finished their poetry anthologies. They made sure that they had written a different types of poems, such as haikus, acrostics and those with an AA BB rhyming scheme. In addition they used different poetic devices such as personification, simile...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Mar 2, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8
Students have just completed their final summative tasks for their English and Individuals and Societies units. In English; after looking at the ideas of perspective, bias and fake news, they created captions for photos that outlined what was shown and what could be...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 23, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
Students have continued with their inquiry into voices from the past, which is an interdisciplinary unit with Individuals and Societies. Over the past three weeks we have identified the conventions of historical movies and applied those to the film ‘100 days’ which...
