by Melodee PETERS | May 29, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
This week, grade 7 students completed a task about the Magna Carta. They then had to work together on fixing and improving their work based on feedback given to one/two team members. Thus, the team had to work closely by interpreting the feedback and applying it to...
by Melodee PETERS | May 22, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
This week has been testing Grade 7 students skills at task and time management. They had to plan their revision and study schedules in order to cope with a week of summative tests in Math, Science, Humanities and French, as well as homework. Many students showed that...
by Melodee PETERS | May 15, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
This week the Grade 7 and Grade 8 students in English were practicing their Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills of communication and collaboration by sharing and discussing their ideas and responses to issues related to Aboriginal culture (grade 7 English) and issues...
by Melodee PETERS | Apr 30, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
For the last lesson of the week, the students in Grade 8 were intrigued to learn that they would be doing a demonstration/experiment in the Science lab for Humanities. They were engaged in demonstrating growth or decline of a country’s population. As in a...
by Melodee PETERS | Apr 24, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English
Grade 8 students are delving deeper into the sub-genres of science fiction. They have explored alien invasion texts and movie trailers, such as H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. They have started looking at the conventions of dystopian science fiction, which they...
