by Melodee PETERS | Apr 30, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
For the last lesson of the week, the students in Grade 8 were intrigued to learn that they would be doing a demonstration/experiment in the Science lab for Humanities. They were engaged in demonstrating growth or decline of a country’s population. As in a...
by Melodee PETERS | Apr 10, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary English, The Grades
Both grade 7 and grade 9 students have been practising their transfer skills this week. Grade 7s used their research skills from Humanities to research the history of Australia with regard to colonialism, Aboriginal culture, the Stolen Generation as connected to the...
by Melodee PETERS | Mar 13, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
The grade 7 students have been practicing reading texts and answering IB questions based on their understanding of the sources. Students got to share their answers with each other in the Quiz-Quiz-Trade activity. Afterwards, they worked collaboratively to answer a...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 28, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
Grade 7 students were tasked to create their own quiz questions and answers based on a reading text about the geography of Mesopotamia. In class, this week, they were introduced to the Kagan Cooperative Learning structure called Quiz-Quiz-Trade. This activity is...
by Magz BRAY | Oct 12, 2023 | EAL, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary English, Secondary History, The Grades
Assessment As Learning This week in Grade 7, students used their Personal Timeline Projects to workshop around self-evaluation, self-assessment and using feedback to elevate their work. They used their project checklists and student friendly success criteria...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Oct 20, 2021 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary English
In both English and Individuals and Societies we have completed the first units. As a summative task in English, students wrote an essay analysing the techniques and success of an advert. In Individuals and Societies, students worked in small groups to present a...
