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Grade 10 looking to new horizons
Grade 10 are starting on a journey exploring France and getting closer to French culture ; a journey to take us into DP and beyond. We have recently been considering what current affairs look like through a French lens. Students this week have been analysing media and...
A week filled with ‘Energy’
Grade 4 has had a busy week looking at different kinds of energy and then researching further to find more interesting information. We have focused on non-renewable energy to really understand what is coal, natural gas and oil and how is it formed? We even included...
Grade 11 Chemistry – 7 weeks into online learning
To paraphrase an old popular song - "It's astounding Time is fleeting Isolation takes its toll" We are all facing a challenge like never in our lifetimes. It is one that we can only approach with hope holding fast to our certain values. Time goes by fast and slow at...
Time to get creative
Week 31 has been a very creative week for the students in Grade 3. Students were given the task of sorting through items of rubbish, such as glass, paper, card and plastic and thinking of different ways of sorting. The students rose to the challenge and discovered...
Extending Thinking through Novel Study
Over the past few weeks we have been enjoying reading the classic children’s story ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. Reading quality stories is a great way to develop our language skills and writing. As we read about the marvellous inventions in Mr...
SKIPPING CHALLENGE
Over the past 4 weeks students in Grades 1, 5 and 6 have been taking part in a skipping unit. Many students made great progress with their skipping and by the end of the unit could do some amazing tricks. The top three in each grade earnt house points. Grade 1 Carole...
Distance Cooking
Over the past two weeks of distance learning students have made omelets and pancakes as a practical application of measuring skills. It's been quite a hit with the students and we plan on more cooking and baking!
We have so much to share!
We have done so many things. Here are a few examples of challenges, extra projects, sharing and learning together.
Sharing the Planet
Students are currently completing a summative assessment project on this unit. Here are some interesting work that students have produced throughout the unit. Next week we will share our ecosystem dioramas.
Using learning power in Grade 1
We were using the power of our ‘thinking’ to help us try out new things this week. We know new things don’t always work the first time but if we keep trying ideas and thinking about how to get better we will solve problems and be more powerful learners. Check out the...
Maps and TOK
This week Grade 11 students explored different maps in our ongoing discussion about how the world is represented. We looked at the problem with traditional maps, why certain representations are preferred, and we looked at alternate maps that challenged our way of...
Grade 10 Science
As we transition into DP, this week in science we reviewed graphing and interpreting scientific data. Students completed tasks on drawing best fit lines, interpolation and extrapolation. Students were able to plot graphs and explain trend lines. They also identified...
Busy times in 5KL
The students in 5KL have had a change to their routine recently. Instead of having activities to complete about a number or fraction of the day, they are being given number puzzles. Countdown puzzles come from a British TV show of the same name. The students are given...
G9 Design: launching Criterion C
We launched Criterion C this week - “Creating the Solution”. We talked through what students can realistically achieve while learning from home. We paid attention to each strand; discussing expectations, slide show info pack, youtube clips created by the design...
Grade 10 Math. Transition to Diploma
This week grade 10 were working on a project that was developing their graphing abilities. It involved plotting the dates of the dates of the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, describing any patterns mathematically, then using this to make predictions. The activity is also...
Update from the ABIS Board
ABIS Community: During the last couple of months, we as a Board have been actively recruiting a new Head of School. We have been fortunate to interview many candidates for the position, and we are now down to the final candidate selection. Last week we had...
Week 30 homeschool grade 3
This week Grade 3 have been working hard and creating shape poems. They used their creativity to design calligrams. A calligram is a word or piece of text where the letters create a picture that is connected to the word. The results were very effective with the...
Grade 11 Sciences
Learning from home has its challenges. Keeping focused and making progress can be difficult to manage without daily schedules to support their work. The first few weeks of our science lessons were devoted to learning how to write reports - a critical skill for when...
G9 Design Developing
Students have been piecing together specification and sketches as part of the design cycle over the last 2 weeks. Again, thanks to the students ‘clients’ for being valuable spokes in the design cycle. Next week, we shift focus from being Designers to Prototypers....
Expressing Ourselves through Art
This week Grade 3 have created some fabulous artworks to express themselves. The prompt for this Artwork was a special place to escape to. Students started with the sentence beginning, “I might be stuck at home, but in my mind I am...” and then they created an artwork...
Grade 9 Mathematics
Shortly the grade 9 class will be entering a review period. The focus for this will be to develop skills that they will need in MYP5 and at Diploma level. This will also have an ATL focus of Create plans to prepare for summative assessments & Plan strategies and...
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