by Melodee PETERS | Sep 17, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 8s are exploring the conventions and style of print advertisements. This week they practised the ATL skills Communication and Collaboration: they had to work as a team to pool their notes and annotate an advert studied in class; then they had the opportunity to...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 17, 2026 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
This week our grade 7s practised their ATL collaboration skills to pool their knowledge from reading a case study to build a food web illustrating the flow of energy from producers to consumers among the organisms found in the waters around al Daymaniyat islands. The...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 10, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities, The Grades
Grade 9 students are exploring their first dedicated economics unit. In grades 7 and 8, economics were integrated with history and geography. So, why are Grade 9 students engaged in a unit focused on economics? Well, they have had mostly dedicated integrated units...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 3, 2026 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
Every Wednesday the grade 10 students have the opportunity to get MYP support for Service as Action, Personal Project, and ATL skills development. Last week the students started thinking about their passions and interests to set out ideas for possible projects. They...
by Melodee PETERS | Aug 26, 2026 | Community and Service, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
This week in their MYP Support session, Grade 9 students reviewed their Service as Action (SA) portfolios. First they recorded the learning outcomes they had achieved in Grades 7 and 8. Then, they recorded the outcomes that they will need to target over the course of...
