by Andres BRADSHAW | Sep 17, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
Hello everyone, We are at the end of week 3 of virtual learning and everyone is now in the groove for this way of learning. We are still having some lesson technical issues but as demonstrated by the Grade 10’s we are all in this together and it was wonderful to see...
by Scott MCBIRNIE | Sep 17, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
Why did John Williams, the composer of the music for the first few Harry Potter movies, choose the flute for this scene in The Prisoner of Azkaban? Questions like this – and many more like it! – are being carefully thought through by the Grade 10 music...
by Andres BRADSHAW | Sep 10, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
Hello, A full school week completed looking at the faces of my students and myself in the mirror today it appears that everyone is tired and we have yet to build up our school stamina. Everyone has adapted well to synchronous virtual learning and you all deserve a pat...
by Tynisha LOUGHER | Sep 9, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary French
We were busy getting to know each other in French class this week and assessing our language levels. Students played a fun Kahoot! game to find out all about “prof” (they were shocked to know I have seven siblings!) and there was a winner in each class. We...
by Paul Healy | Sep 3, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
What a different start to the new year. The students were awesome. As a collective we had to work out some small kinks using classroom links and new applications. Students worked through google classroom, collaborated in Jamboards and used break out rooms to chat in...
by Gary GOODWIN | Sep 3, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, Secondary History, Secondary ToK
It was great seeing everyone back in class this week. I have missed our conversations. Thank you to all students who participated and helped each other as we moved to the distance learning format. Here are some photos of student collaboration within Google Jamboard....