by webtester | Oct 24, 2012 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History
Mrs. Provencher has put up a new white board in the SLS dedicated to a “word of the week”, a word we hope the students will internalize and use in the future. This week’s word was legacy. A perfect word in Grade 8 History class this week. Ask your...
by webtester | Oct 23, 2012 | Grade 10, Humanities, Secondary History
“There are two hours of my life I’m never getting back.” Surely something like this was running through the minds of Grade 10 as they exited their History exam on Monday. They’d just finished a full-length IGCSE exam. Paper 2, to be exact. This...
by webtester | Oct 17, 2012 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History
Last week I quoted Eugene O’Neil saying something about history repeating itself. I do believe that history has a very circular nature about it, but there’s something a bit too neat (and borderline Calvinist) about O’Neil’s statement....
by Wayne Hampton | Oct 15, 2012 | Community and Service, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, Primary P.E., Primary Visual Arts, Secondary English, Secondary French, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts, Uncategorized
Dear parents, A big focus area in the Secondary School at the moment is personal organisation and we are actively working with students to help them to develop effective organisational systems and daily rituals that will not only lead to their academic success in...
by webtester | Oct 14, 2012 | Grade 6, Humanities, Secondary History
That’s the question I put before grade 6 during History class on Sunday. We’ve just about wrapped up our unit about human origins and the students can converse quite fluently about how evolution works, as well as the more spiritual explanations for our...
by webtester | Oct 10, 2012 | Grade 7, Humanities, Secondary History
Our last P.E. teacher, Mr. Duffield, once told me, “The Burj Khalifa? That doesn’t impress me. It’s the 21st century. We can build anything. What impresses me are the pyramids in Giza or Chichen Itza, that they’re still standing.” I have...
