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Arabic G7 MYP :
G7 students analyzed a poem from Arabic poetry related to the content of the unit, which is the human values. The students employed the main concept and the related concept within the content of the poem. It included many of the values contained in the unit. Each...
Working on self-portrait collages.
Grade 7 students have done a lot of hard work to prepare for these artworks. We have gotten to the point where everyone comes in knowing exactly what they are going to work on that day, and can simply sit down and dig in. The atmosphere in the art space is fast-paced...
Such Creative Kids!
The kids were so inspired by storytelling that some of them started making their own puppets, puppet stages and performing for others! They also started learning about habitats and researching a habitat with their learning group. It was another busy week in grade 2!...
Songwriters, performers, artists…
We have had a busy week in Grade 6 continuing to prepare for Exhibition. This week we recorded our parody of the Beatles song: 'Let it be' which we rewrote to fit in with the issues we have been exploring in our groups. We have also been preparing final group logos...
Chop chop….
Most of the students (Grade 7 to 9) have been working in the design kitchen. Students have spent several periods discussing safety and best practice while in the teaching space. Students practiced their knife skills using carrots. They have been shown how to practice...
Items to note
Dear parents, The weather is warming up and so we ask that your child brings a hat and a water bottle to school every day. We will remind our students that when they go outside they must wear a hat and bring their water bottle to stay hydrated. Since we started back...
Grade 2 Update
Science - Unit of Inquiry Group work to decide if things are non-living or living. Maths - Measurement - Length Practising using our rulers to measure different objects in the classroom.
Trading Thursday
As Grade 3 learn about how goods and services are traded, we had a Trading Thursday today. During the week we practised bartering to negotiate on an agreed price through role play. Mr Isles joined in our role play but wasn’t happy with the deal so wasn’t successful in...
Grade 3 Swap Shop – a lesson in trade
Today was a very exciting day for the students. Each child brought in an item they no longer needed hoping they could swap for something they wanted. We started the 'Swap Shop' by walking round the tables to see what was available. If they saw something they were...
Experiments in Science
Students in grades 7-8 are beginning to do inquiry formally through lab experiments. By observation and asking the right questions, an understanding of underlying phenomena can be found. Documenting and writing complete reports is an important skill to communicate...
March Mammal Madness Round 1 Results
March Mammal Madness 2021 The annual, world-wide mammal competition is well underway now that the first round is complete. There were three upsets in the first rounds, one of them major, that will put the brakes on several people’s brackets. These include...
Congratulations to Kavya!
Our grade 11 DP student took part in an online virtual CAS conference organised by castrips.org. Around 200 students from Africa, Europe and the Middle-East took part in this conference to discuss "equality - driving social, racial and gender justice". One of the...
Stories, Stories Everywhere!
This unit of inquiry is huge! We write stories, we solve number problems and we enjoy reading stories and finding the message. Thank you also for the stories we heard in the Mother Tongues. We had Portuguese, French and Spanish. We share our stories in different ways....
Library Times- Book Clubs, Bravery and Backpacks
This week the library has been hopping, with books coming in and out, a new Scholastic Book Order opening ( see more below) and students talking lots about reading. We are still working hard to organize and get the library up to date. There are quite a few...
Explorers helped to complete the map of the world
Maps of the world looked very different 500 years ago before explorers had travelled to the far flung places of the world. Most maps just had a large blob of land at the bottom. This was because people knew about all the land in the northern hemisphere and they...
Welcome back Mentors!
All PYP Exhibition groups met up with their mentors this week to discuss their ideas for action and Exhibition presentations, it's getting exciting! All surveys were returned this week and students spent time organising, analysing and presenting the data they...
Celebrating our languages.
Grade 1 has been inquiring about ‘problems. We have decided there are ‘small problems’ and ‘big problems’. We know there are lots of things we can do and say to manage small problems ourselves. We also decided that . . . . . . Before your ‘small problems’ grow you can...
Pi Day and Design
Hello everyone, This week we celebrated the mathematics World Pi day and learnt how to use Pi to calculate the area and circumferences of circles. We used all of our knowledge of length, area and perimeter to a 3 day extended maths problem - design a food production...
Impulse
This week the grade 11 physics students were throwing and catching raw eggs to physically learn about a physics concept without computation and equations. The activity focussed on what they knew instinctively about throwing and catching because as the distance...
Sketchnoting in DP History
Students in grade 11 completed a really cool sketchnote this week that outlines the reasons for the policy of appeasement in the 1930s. Sketchnoting is a note taking technique that combines text, graphics, connectors, and containers and is a nice option to have if...
MYP Arabic G8 :
While studying the influence of literature on characters, students analyzed the novel (Around the World in Eighty Days) and designed a cover of their creations that employed the main concept, related concept, and global context where each student analyzed the novel’s...
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