All the other things

We are only a week away from the last winter holiday before the grade 12s head off to university. They have made it through the bulk of their internal assessment work (hopefully with minimal complications) and they are preparing to move into the part of the diploma...

Planning ahead

Hello! In the past few weeks, we have been discussing what to do for the week that has traditionally been called “Oman Week”. We had decided that this year we wanted to do something a little different. For the DP students, this meant opening up...

ABIS – A Small Place

We are almost there. We started our last unit of the DP English program this week. After reading five different novels, studying six non-literary texts, writing the higher level essay and practicing both the individual oral and the paper one, we have now started the...

What are electron transitions?

In grade 11 Chemistry we recently started a new unit – atomic structure. We started off learning about it by considering what happens when electrons change their positions around the nucleus (farther then closer). This simple activity gives a feeling for the...