by Melodee PETERS | Sep 25, 2025 | The Grades
It is Week 5! We are more than halfway through this term, which means students have been working on developing specific skills for their summatives. In English, the grade 7s students have learned how to annotate a text. They then used their annotations to draft their...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 18, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
This term both grade 8 students and grade 9 students are analysing advertisments. Grade 9s are focusing on specifically tourism advertisements while grade 8 students select advertisements for their final analysis. On Wednesday, the 2 groups had the opportunity to...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 18, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, The Grades
This week our grade 8 students had their second DER morning, which is intended to encourage students to take a break from their screens and engage with a text of their choice, whether book (fiction/nonfiction), magazine, newspaper, graphic novel, etc. . Our target...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 11, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
Our Grade 8 Integrated Humanities students have been studying tectonic plates and how their movements cause earthquakes. The students enjoyed demonstrating the different tectonic plate movements through their body movement. When they demonstrated, the other students...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 11, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 students have been examining travel advertisements for their first unit of study. This week, they had the opportunity to collaborate with a partner on a chosen advertisement; thus, using each other’s strengths in analysis to complete annotations of the...
