by Wayne Hampton | Jan 30, 2013 | Community and Service, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts
Thank you to the many parents who attended the Oman week meeting on Sunday. I am personally envious of the students and teachers involved as I will be stuck in the school helping oversee the IGCSE mocks for the Grade 10’s, who will also not be out sailing or trekking...
by newuser | Jan 22, 2013 | Grade 8, Secondary English
Juliet’s last words speak of a deathly object from Shakespeare’s famous tragedy that several students included in their character symbol box. Students chose five things which best represented their chosen character’s personality and role in the...
by newuser | Jan 22, 2013 | Grade 10, Secondary English
The grade 10 students each shared five objects which best represented their chosen character from Aldous Huxley’s utopian novel Brave New World. Soma pills appeared to be a common symbol, a motif, in our presentations. The World State’s strategies to avoid...
by newuser | Jan 9, 2013 | Secondary English
Planning is vital to writing effective and coherent texts. Using graphic organizers helps some students organize their thoughts into the structure required by specific text types. Outlines have taken on new forms, for example the attached photo is of the inverted...
by Wayne Hampton | Dec 19, 2012 | Front Page, Grade 10, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader
Dear parents, Our Secondary students were delighted to have an article on their beach clean up featured in the ‘Times of Oman’ on December 16. Their write up of the project was printed exactly as they wrote it, which was very encouraging for them. On Monday we had a...
by newuser | Dec 19, 2012 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Secondary English
In Book Club, we finished an activity discussing proverbs from various cultures. These sayings offer wisdom about human nature and the ways of the world and can be very handy in essays. A hedge between keeps friendships green. France If you step on one ant, the others...
