by Melodee PETERS | Mar 5, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
This week grade 8 students started their unit in which they will learn about the causality of population change and population sustainability. First the students wrote their own factual questions before looking at the ones on Managebac. The students then prioritised...
by Melodee PETERS | Jan 22, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, Secondary English, The Grades
Update on students’ learning: Grade 7 Humanities – students are being guided through how to make clear and purposeful research notes. They have received formative feedback and must use it to show improvements in the upcoming summative. Grade 8 Humanities...
by Melodee PETERS | Dec 18, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
It may be the last day of school but Grade 8s are still dedicated to their learning and worked to finish their critical writing about the decline of the British Empire and the political implications thereof. Of course, after everything was completed, then they...
by Melodee PETERS | Dec 4, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
Grade 8 students are being prepared for online assessments like the e-assessment they will complete in Grade 10. In Humanities, they had the opportunity to use AssessPrep, the online testing platform recently acquired by ABIS to complete their Source Analysis...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 16, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, The Grades
The students in Grades 7 to 9 English and Grade 8 Integrated Humanities are completing their final summative assessments. Grade 7 students at this stage should have completed the writing of their own myth (inspired by their own culture) in English. Some of them had to...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 2, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
Grade 8 students have accomplished much learning about natural hazards this term by exploring the geography and geology of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. They now know the acronym CCRIE which helps them remember the components to present in a case study: Causes,...
