Total Recall

Amongst the many strategies we employ to learn language in Grade 7, one that was both challenging and fun recently was a timed retrieval practice. Students had 1 minute to respond to an oral question about a topic we had explored a few days before. They had to quickly...

Reading

As we finish up the year, we are hoping to get the students reading a bit more. In order to achieve this, in English class, our last unit is an independent reading project. Each of the students have now chosen a book to read and will then present an exhibition to the...

Grade 7 English and I and S

In English students have completed reading ‘Rabbit Proof Fence.’  They have created storyboards based on scenes from the book.  The last summative assessment will be an essay comparing the book and the movie. In I and S, students are just about to complete a research...