by Melodee PETERS | Apr 17, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
This week the grade 8 students watched the movie Ender’s Game (2 students also opted to read the novel) in preparation for their formative task to create a science fiction movie poster for the 2025 re-make of Ender’s Game. Each student chose a learner...
by Duncan MAKORI | Apr 10, 2025 | Front Page, Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, Secondary Science, The Grades
This week, we introduced the Grade 10 students to the interdisciplinary pre-release material as part of their preparation for the on-screen IDU e-assessments in May 2025. The focus of this year’s IDU combines Science and English Language and Literature,...
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 27, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
This week was the culmination of the poetry unit for Grade 7 students. Grade 5 students, who had also been writing haikus, concrete poems, etc., were invited to share and discuss their poems with the grade 7s. The students were engaged and enjoyed reading each...
by Melodee PETERS | Mar 20, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
This term all students in grades 7 to 9 focused on developing their communication skills, specifically their reading skills so that they could make notes that would help them complete their summative assessments based on analytical reading of poems. The specific...
by Melodee PETERS | Mar 20, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
As a great way to end their unit on Poetry Analysis, Grade 9 students could choose a poem to perform as a group, a pair, or individually. The students had great fun making props for the performance. They had to focus on using non-verbal communication techniques to...
