by Paul Healy | Jun 3, 2021 | Grade 10, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, The Grades
It’s been a week of exploration for all students now that their summative assessments have been completed. Sketching is an important part of developing ideas. Students watched a YouTube video demonstrating effective product sketching techniques and then evaluated the...
by Andres BRADSHAW | Jun 2, 2021 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
The grade 10 have been looking forward to what the next 2 years will look like for their University entrance exams: the Diploma Programme or another 2-year program. They have been reviewing the practical skills that will be required in science and grading a real...
by Gary GOODWIN | May 20, 2021 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary History
This week grade 10 students looked at how war led to advancements in medicine. Our primary focus was the First World War which was fought on an industrial scale. Below is some of our work where we used categories to discover new injuries and diseases arising from the...
by Andres BRADSHAW | May 20, 2021 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
The Grade 10’s have been sitting their end of MYP eAssessments these last 3 weeks with the last examination tomorrow – yeehaw. They have been demonstrating how they have used their conceptual understanding and knowledge across a range of disciplines. They have...
by Andres BRADSHAW | May 6, 2021 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
It is that time of the year when the grade 10 and the DP students take their end of year or end of phase final examinations. The purpose of the examinations is to make a final review of the topics/units covered and assess the level, against a benchmark, of each...
by Paul Healy | Apr 22, 2021 | Grade 10, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
This week students learnt an easy but useful framework to analyse a products Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT). It is a framework that can be used across the subjects and if used will help students be more successful learners. Grade 8s spent the...
