by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Sep 17, 2015 | Grade 7
This week, Grade 7 started looking at the characteristics of life. The students had great fun learning how to prepare microscope slides from pieces of onion that would allow them to take a closer look at plant cells. They produced some wonderful slides and operated...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Sep 16, 2015 | Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
Throughout the week, G5-8 Band students have been working on producing sound with just mouthpieces. While everyone had been eager to play with their entire instrument, there is a pedagogical reason for the slow start. Learning a new instrument means learning new mouth...
by Cathy MARCHMONT | Sep 10, 2015 | Grade 7, Uncategorized
Congratulations Grade 7 on a wonderful start to your secondary school years. As the transition year this can be a difficult year but, although I know you are finding some aspects of work challenging, overall I also know you are enjoying it. You are embracing the...
by Michael CARBERRY | Sep 10, 2015 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Primary P.E., Secondary P.E, The Grades
A number of students have booked their spots on this year’s ski trip to Italy. If you are interested please let myself or Ms. Usher know so that we can add your name to the list. The ski company want to book our accommodation as soon as possible. This year we...
by Carole SAUNDERS | Sep 10, 2015 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary Dance
The older students have jumped into Dance quickly this year. Our “newbies” are fitting in very quickly and it has been nice to see them already contributing. The students in grades 7-10 have been revisiting safe practices with warm up and cool downs, and...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Sep 10, 2015 | Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
As the music team works to increase the opportunites and advance the quality of music making at ABIS, we get many questions about why we have chosen to go in the direction of musical ensembles and specifically band and choir. While the full answers to the questions...
