by Melodee PETERS | Sep 24, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary English
This week Humanities and English required students to practise an IB Command term that comes from Science – annotate. Grade 7s annotated myths in English and short articles in Humanities. Grade 8s annotated advertisements in English. This is an important...
by Duncan MAKORI | Sep 24, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary Maths
What We Covered This Week: Building on our work with the laws of indices, students took their understanding further by exploring standard form (scientific notation): Standard Form Conversions: Expressing ordinary numbers in standard form and vice versa. Algebraic...
by Sahar Mohammad IBRAHIM | Sep 24, 2026 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
This week, Grade 8 students analyzed a poem by the renowned poet Mahmoud Darwish as part of their Language and Literature class. The unit covered an introduction to the poet’s life and key literary contributions, followed by a detailed analysis of the...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 17, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 8s are exploring the conventions and style of print advertisements. This week they practised the ATL skills Communication and Collaboration: they had to work as a team to pool their notes and annotate an advert studied in class; then they had the opportunity to...
by Sahar Mohammad IBRAHIM | Sep 17, 2026 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
This week, 9th-grade students completed an assignment in Language and Literature analyzing the world-famous translated novella “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway. As part of their coursework, the students examined the story’s plot and...
by Duncan MAKORI | Sep 10, 2026 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary Science
This week, our Grade 9 scientists continued exploring Acids and Bases Around Us through inquiry-based learning. Students investigated how different indicators—including litmus, phenolphthalein, universal indicator, and natural plant pigments—can be used to identify...
