by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Jan 18, 2024 | Grade 12
Hello! It’s only a week away before we start our DP mock exams. This tends to be a time of high stress and we have been meeting with the grade 12s to discuss methods of mitigation. The students will be sitting exams from January 28th-February 4th. Please help...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Oct 12, 2023 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
Well, the movie we chose to see wasn’t in the cinema yet! So, we did some last minute changes and agreed to see Paw Patrol, a film with a much younger audience in mind than the nine of us. However, it still works for our film summative as the students are...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 27, 2023 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
Next week, we will be finishing up our film unit in grade 10. This exciting unit culminates in an exciting field trip to the cinema. We have been studying how to analyze film and more recently how to produce film reviews, including through writing, video and audio...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
As a vocabulary building exercise, I have instituted a “word of the day” competition in the DP classes. Each class, we start off with a word (usually drawn from SAT vocabulary lists), which the students then need to define and provide an example for. They...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 6, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
We are already finishing up our first unit in DP year 1 English and Literature. We have been studying film reviews, returning to our first unit from grade 10, but this time as critical readers rather than creators. From next week, we will be starting our first novel....
