by Leo THOMPSON | Feb 5, 2015 | Grade 7, Humanities
Grade 7 are beginning to enter the Medieval Age in Humanities! So nothing like a good old heads-up game to get to know your characters! We spent 2 lessons researching and note taking to learn about the different classes and people who made up Medieval society and then...
by Leo THOMPSON | Dec 18, 2014 | Grade 7, Humanities
As a final assessment, the Grade 7s have been completing a task using representatives of primary sources. It was a great interactive task to get us all moving for the final days before our break! Have a great and safe break Gd7!
by webtester | Mar 13, 2013 | Grade 3, Grade 6, Humanities, Secondary History
For the past three weeks grades 3 and 6 have been collaborating on a film project in social studies. The theme of the film is migration–the who, why and how of people moving around the globe. Working in mixed groups of 4-6 students, their task is to tell the...
by webtester | Jan 23, 2013 | Grade 7, Humanities, Secondary History
For the past six weeks grade 7 History has had the look of an English class: students pouring over novels and pulling out themes; presenting plot and narrative elements, doodling ideas for story arcs, and writing first chapters. One of the most overlooked ways of...
by webtester | Dec 19, 2012 | Grade 10, Humanities, Secondary History
Beginning on May 7, our grade 1o students will sit their IGCSE exams, the culmination of two-years’ worth of study and preparation. These exams and their results–released in mid-August–mark a significant milestone for the students. It’s the...
by webtester | Dec 5, 2012 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History
The past hundred years have set a record for the number of armed conflicts around the world and amount of blood shed. Paradoxically, it has also ushered in an era in which many parts of the world have stopped accepting war as part of an ordinary life. To wit,...
