by John MWITA | May 18, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary Science, The Grades
Balloon powered cars! This week Grade 9 have been putting their creativity skills into developing balloon powered cars using simple materials such as balloons, paper cups, plastic straws and rubber bands. By using Newton’s third law of motion which states that...
by Greg PERRY | Apr 30, 2020 | 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
Students across school are still earning house points. We will continue to keep track in houses. Here is the current tally of points Keep showing off your use of good Approaches to Learning and your attributes of the Learner Profile. Here is to all of us doing good...
by Greg PERRY | Apr 30, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
Students are 7 weeks into planning their Personal Projects. During each week of our learning from home, students have had an assignment. Each assignment was a step toward reaching their goal, completing their Personal Project. We have continued to hold our weekly...
by Paul Healy | Apr 29, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary Design & Technology
We launched Criterion C this week – “Creating the Solution”. We talked through what students can realistically achieve while learning from home. We paid attention to each strand; discussing expectations, slide show info pack, youtube clips created by the design...
by Paul Healy | Apr 23, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
Students have been piecing together specification and sketches as part of the design cycle over the last 2 weeks. Again, thanks to the students ‘clients’ for being valuable spokes in the design cycle. Next week, we shift focus from being Designers to Prototypers....
by Matthew TAYLOR | Apr 23, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Shortly the grade 9 class will be entering a review period. The focus for this will be to develop skills that they will need in MYP5 and at Diploma level. This will also have an ATL focus of Create plans to prepare for summative assessments & Plan strategies and...
