by webtester | Oct 10, 2013 | Grade 11, Secondary History
One thing I’ve always loved about traveling and living overseas is the exposure to different newspapers. This is doubly true because I come from a country (America) where the printed newspaper is a dying breed, replaced by online content. But in most other...
by webtester | Oct 3, 2013 | Grade 9, Secondary History
With a unit exam coming up next week, the name of the game today was review–and the name of that review was a game. Grade 9 spent two periods playing “Unification Showdown”, a board game that challenged the students to race around the board,...
by webtester | Sep 26, 2013 | Grade 11, Secondary History
Most courses in the IB Diploma Programme have a component that is completed internally, that is, at school. That task is then marked by the teacher and then sent off to the IB to be counted in their final score. In History the Internal Assessment (IA) is worth 20% of...
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....
by webtester | Sep 19, 2013 | Grade 8, Secondary History
In 1630, the astronomer Galileo Galilei was summoned before a court in Rome to face charges of crimes against Christianity. In short, he was charged with “heresy” for putting putting forth and teaching the “absurd” proposition that “the...
by Wayne Hampton | Sep 5, 2013 | Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts, The Grades
The first week back after the summer break is always a shock to students as they readjust their sleeping rhythms from getting up whenever they want to being at school by 8. Nevertheless we have been pleasantly surprised at how well students have adjusted to being back...
