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Motion and Waves
We are focusing on the physical sciences this term with grade 7s working on motion, forces and energy and grade 8s focusing on Waves, sound, heat and light. We are exploring these ideas within the context of understanding these phenomena and using that knowledge to...
Happy New Year Everybody!
We were excited about seeing each other again this week and feel like we have been on extra adventures listening to each person talk about their Winter Break. Many people had special things to show the class and Emmily enthralled us with her stories and photos from...
Advantages of Learning Without Leaving Home
Here are some of the benefits of Online learning. Comfort - not having to sit in an uncomfortable chair. Access classes from the comfort of your home. You do not have to use transport to get to school and therefore you don’t have to get up early to get dressed for...
G8 :Arabic MYP وحدة الوطن
During this week, after returning from vacation, the students participated through online learning with enthusiasm and regularity within the classes. They had wonderful collective opinions and contributions regarding the unity of belonging to the homeland and how to...
Art: Found Objects
The grade 5 students were challenged to create a piece of art that interacted with an object from their house. This was a great activity to help students expand their creative thinking and problem solving skills. Here are some examples from our lesson.
The Weather Report in Grade 2…. 2021 is Going to be Fine.
It has been so lovely to see everyone back online again for the start of a brand new year. The students have been really impressing me with their hard work and eagerness to learn. LITERACY Adjectives We have been continuing to practise using adjectives to make our...
G6 Arabic:
This was the first week after the students returned from holiday , as everyone participated during this week with enthusiasm and activity, and regular attendance in the classroom, where we discussed many topics in which the students showed great effectiveness and...
Chemistry Independent Experiments – the Science Internal Assessment
Post from December that failed to upload! All DP Chemistry students must conceive of, plan, and execute an investigation into a specific topic within a realm of chemistry. This includes posing a research question, collecting the data to answer it, setting up an...
Welcome to a new year!
It will be nice to be together in person. I am looking forward to resuming our work in person. Until then the new year has gotten me thinking about transitions and how this unusual and often distressing year passed. Here are some questions I am thinking about in the...
Grade 12 DP English A
Our English A students did not waste any time diving into the final four months of their IB journey. We started the classes with mock individual oral (IO) assessments. Students reflected on these assessment to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Using the...
Back Online
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Ms. Simonds and I had a chance to travel around Oman. What a beautiful country! We have been working online the last week and will be online for next week. Here are some reminders for our online class:...
Great to be virtually back in Grade 5.
The wonderful Grade 5 We are all so happy to back together virtually in 2021. Although we can’t wait to be back together in class, in another weeks time. This week we have begun our new inquiry unit ‘Our place in the universe impacts our lives on Earth’. We are...
Grade 8 I & S- How can technology affect our relationships and identities?
Grade 8 Individuals and Societies has been looking at technological breakthroughs throughout history and more recently been inquiring into how television and computers have shaped society and changed the way we live and work. They have looked at the genre of...
Japanese Expansion in DP History
This week, grade 12 students have begun revising for exams by looking at the paper 1 topic of The Move to Global War. We are revisiting the case study of Japanese Expansion in the first half of the 20th century. Grade 11 students are also looking at this topic for the...
Together Again in 2021!
It was great to see everyone again! We studied about the 4 seasons this week. We learned that the seasons are a cycle. We made season circles after eating stories and watching a movie about seasons. Here are our season circles.
2021 – The Year of Grade 6!
We hope you all had a restful break and it was great to be back online this week! We were completing projects for the Science Fair as well as learning about writing great questions and data handling to help us during our Exhibition research. Great to see everyone's...
Shape of the Day in Grade 4
At the beginning of the year the Grade 4 students were given a "Number of the Day" with questions to complete about the given number. As the year went on, this became a "Fraction of the Day". It is currently a "Shape of the Day", a great opportunity to practise some...
2021 starts in Grade 1. By Cheryl Isles and Ancilla Willson
Welcome to a new year. Welcome back to school. . . It is great to see you all online but, it feels a bit lonely here with no children! There is no one to play with . . . The animals are wondering why it is so quiet. Where have all our children gone? We thought they...
Enjoy the Winter Break!
Dear parents, The next two weeks we will all enjoy the Winter Break, well deserved by students and teachers. These past few weeks with students at school have made the school come alive, we are all enjoying the sight of children using the playgrounds, learning in...
DP Math A&I
This has been a fun term for the grade 11s, easing into DP math with measurements, shapes and some basic trigonometry. These are the building blocks to so many jobs and disciplines in the real world. The pace will be stepping up in the new term and there will be a...
Working up a storm in Grade 1. Cheryl Isles and Ancilla Willson.
This is our last post for 2020 -and we have been working up a storm in the countdown to the Winter Break. School has been ‘ normal’ in so many different ways this year but one thing has stayed the same . . . We are great learners and . . . We are busy learning! Covid...
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