by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 25, 2021 | Grade 4 (GS), Grade 4 (ICS)
What sort of government exists in your home country? Grade 4 students investigated this very question and produced wonderful posters to share their work. This was the final task for our How We Organise Ourselves unit about government systems. The students learnt that...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 18, 2021 | Grade 4 (GS), Grade 4 (ICS), Oman Week
Grade 4 enjoyed Oman Week so much we decided to continue some of our activities into this week. On Monday, we made Omani bread. Not the traditional way as that involved getting hands in the dough, which we just couldn’t do! Mr Eriks and Ms Kirsty mixed the dough...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 11, 2021 | Grade 4 (GS), Grade 4 (ICS), Oman Week
What an exciting Oman Week Grade 4 had. Our major classroom activity was a weaving project and it proved to be very educational. First, we learnt that there were many different ways to weave, and objects to weave with! The students learnt what a loom was. We used a...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 4, 2021 | Grade 4 (ICS), Grade 5 (GS)
For STEAM this week we investigated the M, Mathematics. The students were given a challenge. Design uncle Jack’s farm so that it has an area of 50m². We started by drawing all the regular shapes which would give us an area of 50cm² and used a scale of 1cm on...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Jan 28, 2021 | Grade 4 (GS), Grade 4 (ICS)
Don’t be sad that she is gone….. be HAPPY that she was part of our lives. This week we learnt that Marie Usher, the wonderfully bubbly, honest, adventurous Ms Marie had died far too young. She died at home in Liverpool, surrounded by family. For many of...