by Melodee PETERS | Oct 23, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
Grade 9 students have now produced a text of their choice (Criterion C) to complete the Travel Writing Unit. Five students challenged themselves to perform monologues, which they did for their class. All text choices were new to them, so it was great to see students...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 16, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, The Grades
The students in Grades 7 to 9 English and Grade 8 Integrated Humanities are completing their final summative assessments. Grade 7 students at this stage should have completed the writing of their own myth (inspired by their own culture) in English. Some of them had to...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 9, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
As you all know, Grade 8 students analysed print advertisements for the first half of this term. Now, they are creating their own print advertisement or commercial for a brand and product of their choice. This requires them to do research into the ethos of the brand...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 9, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 students are working on descriptive travel writing. They started by personifying a city and then they had to transform the description into an evocative monologue performance. It is not easy to stand up in front of one’s peers to perform and some...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 2, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
Grade 8 students have accomplished much learning about natural hazards this term by exploring the geography and geology of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. They now know the acronym CCRIE which helps them remember the components to present in a case study: Causes,...
