by Dorota Ziemnicka | Oct 24, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
This week, we finished the Digital Citizenship course with a lesson on changing our tech habits. Students reflected on the role that media and technology play in their lives and thoughtfully considered their habits, including what has served them well and what they...
by Matthew CROMWELL | Oct 24, 2024 | The Grades
Dear Parents, I can’t believe how quickly the first term has flown by. It has been really fun getting to know your children and our larger school community in that time. I think as a grade, we have made an excellent beginning and have set the foundations for a very...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 24, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
Our grade 7 advisory participated well in the 2 Awareness Raising days by wearing something in orange on Wednesday and something in pink on Thursday. It’s wonderful to see their eagerness to contribute in raising awareness, especially Sara’s creativeness...
by Khadija Ali Abdullah AL JABRI | Oct 24, 2024 | ECC, The Grades
Dear KG2 Families, Wow! We can’t believe we’re already writing the final broadcast for the first semester of 2024/25. First of all, a big thank you to all the parents who came to support their children as they celebrated their learning on stage. It was such a...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 24, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
Thursday classes for English are student-led. This Thursday, Luis designed a debate for his peers on the ethics and perspectives of a murder that occurred in the text they are reading in class. It was interesting listening to opposing perspectives about the reasons...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 23, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 7 students, this week, started practicing critical reading strategies (aka Active Reading Strategies) as the lead-in for their second unit in English. In teams, they discussed the strategies they used when reading the exposition of a Dick King-Smith novel. The...
