by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Mar 17, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
Thank you to all of those who came out to the DP art exhibition on Wednesday. It was a great success. The incredible art work and wonderful music made for a fantastic evening. Congratulations to Lizzy Wray for her phenomenal display and the completion of her visual...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Mar 10, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
We will be celebrating our country of residence soon. Oman week may still be a few weeks away, but we are already planning for it. Today during advisory, we had a rare opportunity to get together across the upper high school and think about what we could do to...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Mar 2, 2022 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
We have been getting political in grade 12. We have been examining political speeches and exploring how the choice of language and technique can help a speaker connect to their audience, achieve multiple purposes, and downplay stereotypes or labels without ever being...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Feb 23, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
Last week, we spent time consolidating our understanding of the many concepts and connections between what we have been studying and what we are learning. The grade 11 class finished up this week through a creative exploration of how this would translate into...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Feb 17, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
As a reflective exercise in grade 11, we divided into groups to explore what we had learned from the study of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The task was to identify the central concepts of the unit and to write a statement that represented that learning. Both groups...
