Individual Oral Presentations

After the February break, we will be starting our oral presentations. This is the formally assessed internal assessment for the English language and literature course. For this task, students examine a global issue through a close examination of a literary and...

One more to go

It has been a hectic week of exam, exam, chocolate. The grade 12s have managed this with incredible poise and maturity. They have approached the exams with the right attitude and arrived prepared. Now, we are only two exams done from being finished. In the next two...

DP Mock Exams

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...

Out to the Movies

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...

To the Cinema

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...