by Wayne Hampton | Jun 19, 2014 | Secondary English
Students in Grades 7 and 8 have now completed their last major English units for the year so I decided that they should learn an essential life skill: how to do a crossword! I am a personal fan of the crossword and used to do a lot in my former life as a single man...
by Wayne Hampton | Jun 12, 2014 | Secondary English
In Bookclub this week we watched a very interesting video in relation to reducing how much time we spend on digital devices, which is ironic as I am on one now typing this. The focus of the article, and the conversational topic amongst students, related to this so we...
by Wayne Hampton | Jun 5, 2014 | Secondary English
Well, there hasn’t been much English going on this week – except the Grade 7 Dystopia magazine project – as the rest of the grades had exams. It wouldn’t be particularly interested to talk about tests and scores – other than the fact that...
by Wayne Hampton | May 22, 2014 | Secondary English
Grade 7 English and History are currently teaming up. Grade 7 are completing a unit called ‘Writer’s Workshop’ in English and have been focusing on making their writing more controlled and sophisticated. To consolidate their learning, and put their...
by Wayne Hampton | May 15, 2014 | Secondary English
Grade 7 are currently reading ‘The Hunger Games’, a popular dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins. As they are also doing a ‘Writer’s Workshop’, we decided to take a close look at how Collins writes in terms of sentence types and structure,...
by Wayne Hampton | May 8, 2014 | Secondary English
All Grade 11 IB Diploma students are currently studying ‘Mass Communication’, guided by the question: ‘how does the media use propaganda to sway public opinion? It has been an enjoyable series of lessons for me, so far, to hear their opinions and...
