by Oscar DASS | Mar 3, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Practice helps to improve understanding and consolidates learning. There is no short-cut to this. Know your calulator. Practice problems using it. Develop a sense of familiarity for certain types of problems and strategies for solving them. Build speed and...
by Margot SIMONDS | Mar 3, 2022 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Library
Exciting News!! Ms. Maryam traveled to the Muscat International Book Fair last weekend and was able to purchase many new titles for all ages for our Arabic book section. When students read in their mother tongue, this often helps them to perform better when learning...
by Greg PERRY | Mar 3, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
In chemistry, we have been concluding our unit on “bonding” by looking at the interesting way that metals behave. They manage to pack together their positively charged nuclei into such close proximity! How do they manage that? And how can melting two soft...
by Andres BRADSHAW | Mar 3, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
This week we have been focussing on our collaboration skills, namely delegating and sharing responsibility for decision-making and helping others to succeed. This has been seen in Science with the MYP students helping each other whilst tuning in to the chemistry unit....
by Nicholas MURGA | Feb 24, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
Grade 11 TOK students are finishing up with the first of two optional themes. This first theme focuses on knowledge and politics. We have explored a wide range of ideas and examples related to political knowledge and numerous factors that affect it. Among these are...
by Greg PERRY | Feb 24, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
In grade 11 biology we’ve been studying photosynthesis. Students need to recall and understand a lot of information but we did a practical to look at the outcomes of the process in leaves. We also took the chance to extract some chlorophyll. Here are some...