by Kirsten LLOYD | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Music, Secondary Music
For AOI 3 (Absolute Music), the Grade 12 DP Music students are learning about experimental and avant garde composition techniques popularized during the 20th century. Instead of focusing on the traditional ideas of tonality and melody, many composers began to look...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
As a vocabulary building exercise, I have instituted a “word of the day” competition in the DP classes. Each class, we start off with a word (usually drawn from SAT vocabulary lists), which the students then need to define and provide an example for. They...
by Duncan MAKORI | Sep 14, 2023 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Secondary Science
Organic chemistry is the study of carbon-based compounds and forms the backbone of life itself. It is a subject that can be both fascinating and challenging for students due to the complexity of organic molecules and their versatility of reactions. Organic...
by Nicholas MURGA | Sep 7, 2023 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
The Grade 12 Global Politics class has come back from the summer holiday with renewed motivation and commitment to starting the year on a positive note. Students are currently revising notes and resources related to the Human Rights unit and will sit for Paper 1 and...
by Sahar Mohammad IBRAHIM | Sep 6, 2023 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
G9 students analyzed a novel from world literature entitled (Oliver Twist), linking its events to a global issue, which is poverty and ill-treatment of shelter children. Each student began after sharing the reading, identifying the most important points, and forming...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 6, 2023 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
We are already finishing up our first unit in DP year 1 English and Literature. We have been studying film reviews, returning to our first unit from grade 10, but this time as critical readers rather than creators. From next week, we will be starting our first novel....
