Welcome to Grade 7
Grade 8 Science Service as Action-Where Science meets Art!
. Grade 8 science are through with the term 1 unit in science. Our statement of inquiry; "How can we change matter to make it more useful?" has helped drive the inquiry from basic concepts such as changes of state and kinetic theory to more complex separation...
A Little Help from my Friends (7 & 8)
Assessment As Learning This week in Grade 7, students used their Personal Timeline Projects to workshop around self-evaluation, self-assessment and using feedback to elevate their work. They used their project checklists and student friendly success criteria...
Grade 8 Science-Outdoor classroom
. The 'outdoor classroom' provides a meaningful way to engage learners in practical science, giving them experience of collecting and analysing data, and making predictions in the real world, beyond the limitations of the classroom or laboratory. The wider...
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Ideas for learning tricky maths concepts
Let’s dive into those 7 essential takeaways for students to follow together, whatever stage they’re at on their maths learning journey. Check for prior knowledge when learning new maths Assess a starting point to establish realistic next steps Work within the...
Grade 7 English/ Individuals and Societies
In English, students have completed their investigation into myths. There are now in the midst of a summative task where they create their own myths. In Individuals and Societies, students have com pelted their first unit by creating a timeline of their lives. They...
Service as Action – School supplies donation
Thank you to all who have already given! . We need more, a lot more! Here is a reminder about the purpose of the Grade 9 Service as Action activity. Thank you to donate unused school supplies. They don't have to be new but they should not have been used...
Grade 9 SCIENCE-Our journey so far has been intriguing!
For 6 weeks now, Grade 9 science students have been exploring the unit on acids and bases around us and the impacts on our environment. At the onset, we assessed some misconceptions surrounding acids and bases, some of which included the notion that acids...
Sold out!
The Secondary Student Council's first bake sale of the school year was a HUGE success! We sold everything, to the last crumb! Thank you to the students (and families) who baked and thank you to all who bought the yummy treats. The money, kept in the school safe, will...
Service as Action – Grade 9 advisory class.
In support of Takaful Charity located in Sohar. Up until October break, Grade 9 will be collecting school supplies. (glue sticks, pairs of scissors, pens and pencils, colours, pencil cases, highlighters, sharpeners, erasers) There will be boxes in the 3 atriums in...
Once Upon a Timeline …
It may have been short, but this week in 7LA/I&S was one of our busiest. We have been working intensively on our Communication and Self-Management AtL's. As student's worked to act on feedback, and ensure they have submitted all their formative assessment tasks,...
Picking apart Adaptive Soundtracks
In Grade 7, the students are starting to dive into Adaptive Soundtracks. Many of these students have plenty of hours experience interacting with this style of Music as it is the technical name of Video Game Music. We have started by asking the question, "What is the...
Bake sale – Wednesday 4th Octobre
The Secondary Student Council is organising a bake sale on Wednesday 4th Octobre at break and lunch time. Primary students will be able to buy goods at the Oasis and Secondary students will be able to buy goods in the LC2 atrium. Remember to bring small cash,...
The Home language as a Bridge to Learning
Grade 7 have been learning to use a variety of strategies to support their language acquisition across content areas. One evidence-informed approach and strategy is translanguaging. Translanguaging strategies leverage student home languages in order to build...
Analysis of poems تحليل القصائد الشعرية
G9 students participated in analyzing some poetic poems related to the unit’s title (Rhetoric among the Arabs). The poem included an art of praise. The students analyzed the verses by analyzing the vocabulary, meanings, beauty, and ideas.
Grade 7 Science- A new discovery about crying babies
According to findings, published online Sept. 2023 in the journal Nature, when a mouse pup starts crying, sound information travels to an area of its mother's brain called the posterior intralaminar nucleus of the thalamus (PIL). This sensory hub then sends signals to...
Developing mathematical mindset
Flexibility and Conceptual Thinking Are Required When Working with Numbers We seek to discern patterns in the cosmos and comprehend its rhythms. But when children enter school and are exposed to a dry set of procedures they believe they just have to accept and...
What’s in a word?
Language Acquisition Grade 7 English Language Acquisition students are becoming more and more familiar with using a variety of note-taking and visual thinking techniques. We use them to build background, develop vocabulary and deconstruct ideas. We use them at the...
Grade 7 Science- The Art of Inquiry
Grade 7 has been engulfed with lab work the entire week, gathering, recording and transforming scientific data into visuals that would enable them to interpret data and draw conclusions on their research work. It was an exciting experience for everyone in the class...
Is there a reason why a circle is 360 degrees
Have you ever wondered where a full circle gets its 360 degrees from? Why not something more straightforward like 10 or 100 degrees? Who decided this? Then why?...