Forms of assessment

1. This Week in Our Learning: • Last week, students received feedback from their diagnostic assessment and this will be shared with parents today. This week, students had their first formative assessments. On Monday, they did a practice writing in which they paired...

Film!

1. This Week in Our Learning: • We have started our first unit, which is a unit on film analysis. We have started by looking at film clips and discussing the ways that directors and film makers communicate their message through camera techniques, the dialogue, and...

Welcome back

1. This Week in Our Learning: • We welcomed everyone back and introduced DP expectations, timetables, and spaces. In English, we started our first unit examining political cartoon. The students demonstrated some phenomenal background knowledge with especially poignant...

So long and thanks for all the fish

It’s been another wonderful year. Thank you for all your support as parents, thanks to your children for being great students, and I look forward to seeing most of you again next year. In grade 10, we covered film reviews, academic writing, creative writing, and...

Vocab-a-thon

With the last few weeks of school, I wanted to find something to help our grade 10 students prepare for the diploma program while still keeping the class engaged and enjoyable as we countdown to the summer holidays. The result was a vocabulary themed competition, I...