by Melodee PETERS | Oct 8, 2026 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, The Grades
This term students in Grades 7, 9 and 10 are practicing their research skills by completing various investigations and products to showcase their learning and application of the skills. Grade 7s have been investigating specific biomes in Oman and have begun to...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 1, 2026 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
On Sunday, Grade 7s engaged in an adapted zig-zag activity. The activity’s purpose is to allow students to share their individual learning with their peers. To this end, each student completed a different homework task and in class the students shared their...
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 Melodee PETERS | Sep 17, 2026 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
This week our grade 7s practised their ATL collaboration skills to pool their knowledge from reading a case study to build a food web illustrating the flow of energy from producers to consumers among the organisms found in the waters around al Daymaniyat islands. The...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 10, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities, The Grades
Grade 9 students are exploring their first dedicated economics unit. In grades 7 and 8, economics were integrated with history and geography. So, why are Grade 9 students engaged in a unit focused on economics? Well, they have had mostly dedicated integrated units...
by Melodee PETERS | Jun 17, 2026 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary Arabic, Secondary French, The Grades
Sunday: what a great start! A large percentage of the class attended. They were engaged and started planning well for the visitors from different language backgrounds followed by researching global events like the various Olympic games and how ‘green’...
