by Magz BRAY | Apr 25, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, The Grades
If your mission was to transfer a message from point A to point B, but it had to move through multiple different brains before it got to the ears of the person who needed to act on it, do you think you could do it? Today, Grade 8 interactively engaged with their...
by Magz BRAY | Apr 18, 2024 | EAL, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
What a week! As I write this, I am conscious of how many members of our community will be feeling the very real effects of this weeks flooding, home and infrastructural damage, electricity loss, water contamination, and poor phone or internet services. It is my...
by Magz BRAY | Apr 4, 2024 | EAL, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, The Grades
Over the past number of weeks, G8 LA have been loosing themselves in the lives, loves and losses of a group of teens known as The Greasers. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is our first foray into analysis of literature, and has proved incredibly enjoyable for students and...
by Magz BRAY | Mar 21, 2024 | EAL, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
Today, G7’s group formative research project, on the features on the Mayan civilization, reached its culmination with final presentations. In their groups, students worked methodically through the process of planning for their research, defining roles and...
by Magz BRAY | Mar 7, 2024 | The Grades
In Grade 7 this week, we went a little deeper into considering different sources of information about past civilizations. We revisited the concept of primary & secondary sources. Using a number of images of archaeological artifacts, students began exercising their...
