by webtester | Nov 14, 2012 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History
This week the Secondary Learning Suite welcomed a few additions: stylish and height-adjustable classroom tables, “wobbly” seats for our more, ummm, antsy students, and three iMac desktop computers. These computers are elegant and powerful, and feature a...
by webtester | Nov 7, 2012 | Grade 6, Humanities, Secondary History
Around 20,000 years ago Neanderthals, our closest relatives in the family tree of man, went extinct. This left only us, Homo sapiens, as the dominant species on the planet. Our more complex brains (developed by thousands of years of eating fish) made us more adaptable...
by webtester | Nov 7, 2012 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History
Grade 9 recently sat for a test in History. The topic was our current unit, Meiji-era Japan, and the questions were pulled from past IGCSE exams. This was the students’ first real exposure to a test-like atmosphere in IGCSE History and the experience, I believe,...
by webtester | Oct 24, 2012 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History
Mrs. Provencher has put up a new white board in the SLS dedicated to a “word of the week”, a word we hope the students will internalize and use in the future. This week’s word was legacy. A perfect word in Grade 8 History class this week. Ask your...
by webtester | Oct 23, 2012 | Grade 10, Humanities, Secondary History
“There are two hours of my life I’m never getting back.” Surely something like this was running through the minds of Grade 10 as they exited their History exam on Monday. They’d just finished a full-length IGCSE exam. Paper 2, to be exact. This...
