Poetry inspired by the Holocaust

Grade 9 are currently working on a joint history/English project where they have been studying the horrors of the Holocaust before producing creative work based on what they have learnt. Today the class broke off into pairs to read each other’s work and to offer...

Human knot

Grade 7s were tangled up in a collaborative and fun activity this week during their ATL session Students needed to keep their hands linked, work together and untangle…would they succeed??? Communication, cooperation and problem solving were involved…one...

G7 Design

This is the first lesson in a 3 lesson program called “Nailed it” whereby the children will be introduced to the skills required for the design cycle. Today they were hard at work learning the art of sanding using either a sandpaper block or...

Empathy Map for the Holocaust

This week students read testimony from a survivor who experienced the transit camps during the WWII. Students used information from the reading and their knowledge gained from this unit to create an empathy map to show what the survivor was feeling, thinking, seeing,...