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Third week of online learning and student led conferences…completed successfully!!
Working online in grade 2. Telling our moms about grade2 in our student led conferences. We shared our habitat research.
Shark Tank – Industrial Revolution Edition
Grade 9 students have started a unit looking at the Industrial Revolution and how this event created social, political, and environmental change. Students are currently researching an invention from the era and preparing a pitch to potential investors. They are to...
Pinwheels in STEAM
Grade 4 students made pinwheels in STEAM as a lead-in for our next unit of inquiry on energy. If our pinwheels were wind turbines, we could turn wind energy into electrical energy!
Student Led Conferences
This week families were invited to come online so their learners could share their work with them. While it was very different this year, the students still enjoyed explaining their work to parents and relatives. The students talked about why they did the work, what...
Learner led – and ‘nailed’!
Grade 1 faced a big challenge this week . . . leading their own conferences, and doing this online! The learners were amazing! I sat back and relaxed as the children managed their own materials and confidently talked about their learning. Great job to all the children...
Bananas, Boxes and Student Led Conferences
Hi everyone, Ramadan Kareem to all the families in G5 who are celebrating. May this be a special time for you and your families. Our first full week online has been a busy one - we have been finishing up our work on 3D Shape and Volume, photographing a scavenger hunt...
In these turbulent times
It is important to note that back-to-online learning has again brought about disruptive change. However, we have been through this before and hopefully have learnt how to work through this. This is about being resilient. We have a short time left to finish the school...
Inquiry and Analysis
The art of scientific communication
A Desperate Plight!
It’s an unusual situation: you marry someone behind your parents’ back, because you love him and you hope it will unite the two families. The next thing that happens is that your new husband kills your cousin in a fight and your dad tells you you’re going to be...
The cardboard box challenge!
Grade 8’s last activity before going online was to work in small groups to creatively photograph a cardboard box in as many ways as possible. There were no rules—the boxes could be held, moved around, suspended, painted, or even cut up and destroyed. At the end of...
We’re back online!
It was great to see Grade 3 students smiling faces on Wednesday morning. Thanks to being online, Mohammed was able to rejoin the class from India. It is was exciting to see him again. Here are some photos of our learning spaces and our thoughts about being online...
Go Grade 1!
Well done Grade 1! We can see that you have grown as learners and are being great self-managers. It is so good to see how you remembered online learning etiquette and showed respect to each other. We had fun making 3 different sized cones for the 3 Bears and popcorn,...
Online in Grade 2
It’s been a short week, but we had many show and tells, a reader of the week (Ali below), learnt how we can help bees and finally found out where BOB came from!!!!
A brief week online
Dear parents, I trust that everyone had a great long weekend. Our first week back with students learning online and students have made the transition with ease. While we would much prefer the students be at school, it is reassuring to know that students have been able...
G 5 :Arabic presentation
G5 students participated in some presentations, where each student chose a topic of his creativity and employed in it the skills of learning from research, thinking and perusal. They chose a variety of topics about choosing friends, and some of them chose about...
G8 Arabic MYP:
Completing the unit of wonders and oddities, the students activated the skills of learning, research and self-organization by presenting a presentation on one of the Seven Wonders of the World, taking into account the standard of organization and use of language,...
Spot the difference . . .
Grade 1 is back on line . . . and better than ever before. We’d all rather be face to face at school but ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ and Covid has certainly made our technology skills sky rocket! I finally figured out what teaching online reminds me of . . ....
New MYP Unit on Health and Medicine
This week Grade 10 students have started a new unit on the history and development of health and medicine. We will be tracking developments in the field from ancient times to the present and discovering what drove innovation. We will also take a look at health and...
Online again…Troubleshooting, Empathy & Participation
Hi everyone, Grade 5 have made a great start to our online learning. We have used the MoSCoW technique to work out a plan fro what we MUST do, SHOULD/COULD do and WON'T as online learners. Top of the list was troubleshooting, empathy and participation, as well as...
Back to Online Learning
The Grade 11's and 10's are back online and the general feeling is one of despondency. We can use this time to build or self-management and resilience skills even though we would all like to be face-to-face in school. Please reach out if you need help, family,...
Getting ready for Student Led Conferences
Student Led Conferences are just around the corner. Next Tuesday and Wednesday to be exact. Grade 4 students are excited about sharing their learning with their parents at this important event. They are compiling a portfolio of work as a slideshow to share. They will...
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