Ms Irma Nel Amazing Atoms Students have been looking at the building blocks of matter and the Periodic Table during the past month. To wrap up their activities they have made their own models of atoms using waste material. The models of the atom were done grade 8 a and b Science for Unit 1:

Ms Canna Wu   Relationship We divided students into different group according to their language level. In Phase 3, student is learning different relationships around his life, especially his relatives and how to communicate with different people. We will compare with student’s own cultural background in order to speed up his understanding. For current unit,

Cultural Connections Flags I would like highlight is our ‘Culture Flags’ from our first unit, discussing connecting culture with self. For this unit I chose to learn more about the students as individuals by instructing them to create three flags that represent their individuality. Students chose to resemble their own culture, personality, and symbolism in

A place of thoughts, feelings and songs! Grade 11 is entering the last week of their first unit, titled, “Thoughts and Feelings”. In this unit we have endeavored to understand some major concepts including identity, representation and communication. Writer’s style, especially, has been focused on. Excerpts from Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice have been used. Cognitive science, specifically; “Theory of Mind”, has been

Ms Janine Bezuidenhout Improvisation During this week, the year 8 students are focusing on collaboration and taking suggestions from peers as part of the lead-up to their improvisational performance learning. This has been scaffolded to allow for an embodied experience of what it means to listen to one another, take peer suggestions and work together.