by Jean Provencher | Nov 14, 2012 | Community and Service, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, Primary Visual Arts, PTA, Secondary English, Secondary French, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts, Uncategorized
Dear parents, One of the teachers’ areas of focus recently has been to standardise our grading system, which will have a number of benefits ultimately leading to higher student achievement. A great deal of time has been spent on this and we have now arrived at a...
by webtester | Nov 14, 2012 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History
This week the Secondary Learning Suite welcomed a few additions: stylish and height-adjustable classroom tables, “wobbly” seats for our more, ummm, antsy students, and three iMac desktop computers. These computers are elegant and powerful, and feature a...
by Wayne Hampton | Nov 7, 2012 | Community and Service, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, Primary P.E., Primary Visual Arts, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts
Dear parents, It’s been a very busy week for students (and teachers for that matter) as students have set up new CAS projects and begun discussions about target setting. As you’re aware, three Secondary School areas that we are focusing on this year are...
by webtester | Nov 7, 2012 | Grade 6, Humanities, Secondary History
Around 20,000 years ago Neanderthals, our closest relatives in the family tree of man, went extinct. This left only us, Homo sapiens, as the dominant species on the planet. Our more complex brains (developed by thousands of years of eating fish) made us more adaptable...
by webtester | Nov 7, 2012 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History
Grade 9 recently sat for a test in History. The topic was our current unit, Meiji-era Japan, and the questions were pulled from past IGCSE exams. This was the students’ first real exposure to a test-like atmosphere in IGCSE History and the experience, I believe,...
by Wayne Hampton | Oct 24, 2012 | Community and Service, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, Primary P.E., Primary Visual Arts, PTA, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts, Uncategorized
This week students have been focusing on using their calendars, organising their folders and notes, and updating their personal websites with finished work (see the featured picture). Many were also involved with helping organise ‘Movie Night’ as a CAS ‘Service’...
