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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...
6 Traits of Writing in Grade 4
This week we introduced the students to the idea that all good writing includes six key ingredients: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions—the Six Traits of Writing. We started with ideas and some practice writing.
Firing up the kiln!
After designing their treasure boxes, Grade 8 students crafted them using clay hand building techniques, like rolling out slabs and using scoring and slip to join two pieces together. After their greenware had dried, some students opted to apply underglaze in a...
Sharing tips for the personal project.
Today, several Grade 10 students came to visit the Grade 9 MYP Support class, to offer advice and share strategies for planning the personal project. Hoor, Noor, Sophia, and Georgia talked about some of the organizational tools that worked for them. These included...
Busy in Grade 2
We have been very busy discovering who we are. We are readers! We are mathematicians! We are teachers. We are storytellers. We are group members working to build a positive classroom culture and working as a group to achieve a common goal! We are grade 2 and we are...
Fortune’s Fool!
This week, Grade 10 have been thinking about the turning point in 'Romeo and Juliet,' where a terrible fight leaves two characters dead. We have been discussing how social expectations of young men actually make a fight more likely e.g. notions of family honour and...
Art ePortfolios in progress.
Students in Grade 10 have the rest of the month to finish their ePortfolio materials. Five will be submitting their visual art unit work to the IB for external assessment, while others will be submitting for music, design, or PHE. In the LC3 art space, there is a lot...
International-mindedness in Music
As you know, a main focus of the IB is to encourage students to become internationally-minded through their learning. This is described as an openness to the world and a recognition of our deep interconnectedness to others. Grade 7 musicians have been open to the...
Learning can be fun!?
Despite being a short week, the children did excellent work. We consolidated the learning about lifecycles. The children had lots of fun playing Charades and guessing the sentence that their friends were acting out as a prelude to writing their recount about their...
A little seed for me to sow. . . .
A little soil to make it grow. A little hole, a little pat, . . . A little wish and that is that. A little sun . . . A little shower . . . A little while and then . . . A flower!
A short and significant week
We did so many things in our short week! We learned how to state our opinions in writing and share them by speaking. Everyone was a risk taker! We also learned about living and non living things. We worked in small groups to decide which things are living and non...
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