by Dan KEARNEY | Dec 11, 2014 | Secondary History
We value collaboration between students and teachers as a vital part of the learning process, and technology plays a big role in this. There are so many wonderful online platforms for collaborative learning. In Secondary School, our most popular platform is Google....
by Leo THOMPSON | Dec 11, 2014 | Grade 8, Secondary History
Gd 8 has been studying the topic of governmental systems, focusing on democracy and its development over time. Their assessment task is to be a practical task where they will act out the role of government branches and negotiate to find a solution to a school problem....
by Dan KEARNEY | Nov 25, 2014 | Grade 11, Secondary History
This week Grade 11 students were handed a pile of paper strips, each one printed with a detail about Benito Mussolini’s foreign policy. Their goal was to make sense of these details and arrange them in categories and chronologically. This type of...
by Dan KEARNEY | Nov 18, 2014 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary History
Aisha leads secondary school (plus grade 6) in our weekly cheer following the Tuesday morning game…
by Dan KEARNEY | Nov 13, 2014 | Grade 12, Secondary History
Grade 12 just completed their first proper Paper 1–the source work exam in Diploma History. Looking at a collection of five unseen sources–excerpts from textbooks, speeches, news reports, political cartoons, to name a few–students are asked to...
by Leo THOMPSON | Nov 13, 2014 | Grade 7, Secondary History
The 7s have been busy this week continuing their study of Ancient Rome. Today they combined their geographical and historical skills while learning the reasons why Rome is located where it is. We will expand this next week by looking at the mapping skills of latitude...
