by Sian ATHERTON | Apr 30, 2025 | Grade 1
We have started to review and reflect on our understanding of the Learner Profile. We had a discussion about our understanding so far as we have been learning many new, difficult words and new concepts this year. Students told me that a learner is someone who learns...
by Sian ATHERTON | Apr 24, 2025 | Grade 1
The Student- led conference is a very special part of the IB programme and one of the highlights of the school year. Students get the chance to have the complete attention of their parents to show how much they have achieved during the past months. It was wonderful to...
by Sian ATHERTON | Apr 16, 2025 | Grade 1
Students have been busy using non-standard measures this week to find length, width and height of different things in school. Non-standard is a way for children to learn how to measure, why we measure, compare and progress towards understanding why we need standard...
by Sian ATHERTON | Apr 10, 2025 | Grade 1
Universal advice to new authors seems to be: “Write what you know” so we thought this was a good place to start in 1A this week and write our holiday stories. This is something we experienced: we were there, we know how we felt, what was said and who was...
by Sian ATHERTON | Mar 27, 2025 | Grade 1
Students had some super Maths experiences this week. Many children are trying to get the high score on the ipad Tell the Time game we have been using to learn o’clock and half past times. There has been fierce competition and, of course, improved time-telling. We were...
