by newuser | Oct 10, 2013 | Grade 10, Secondary English
This week, most of the Gr.10 class made formal presentations analyzing the gothic elements of two of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. The images chosen for the Keynote slides were superbly creepy. Well done!
by newuser | Oct 3, 2013 | Grade 7, Secondary English
The Gr. 7 students just finished reading the play script, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in class. Early next week they will be presenting radio-show versions of short extracts from the texts. They will be focusing on using appropriate pace, tone, volume and pronunciation for...
by newuser | Oct 3, 2013 | Grade 9, Secondary English
The Gr. 9 class began reading William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy,A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s always fun to let out a few hither, doth and hences. This text will be one of two options for Paper 5 of the IGCSE English Literature exams.
by newuser | Sep 26, 2013 | Grade 11, Secondary English
Gr. 11 students presented their first Further Oral Activity in Language & Literature this week. Students collected and analysed clips exemplifying how language is used to distinguish racial, social and class groups.
by newuser | Sep 26, 2013 | Grade 9, Secondary English
This week the Gr. 9 students made connections between two films watched in class, Dead Poets Society and Les Choristes. Both movies are about boys in boarding schools during the late 1950’s and touch on the timeless themes of friendship, loyalty and...
by Wayne Hampton | Sep 19, 2013 | Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader
Dear parents, Thank you to everyone who managed to make it to the Parents Information Evening on Wednesday. For those of you who were unable to make it this year we have some spare copies of the booklets we designed and printed, which you can collect from the SLS....