Term 1 – Week 2

At the end of the first full week of school and we are back in full swing with academic matters. It was also lovely to see some of the parents at the open afternoon we had on Thursday.

Just a reminder that clubs will be starting from next week and that this will affect the bus times coming back in the afternoons, there is still time till Saturday noon to sign up for any club. I would encourage students to be allowed to sign up for their choice of clubs to help develop a holistic education for our learners.

In class this week we started with Math and got into our new rotation system where each year group will get individual attention from me in class and the rest get to practice what we have learned previously or on the day. This week we looked at numbers and calculations of integers both positive and negative. The years 8 and 9’s also looked at prime factors and how they can be used to calculate the Highest Common Factor and the Lowest Common Multiple, they also started exploring indices and indice rules. The year 7’s also looked at multiples and common multiples of sets of numbers.

In IMYC, we are doing a Brainwave unit, aiming at understanding how our brains work, how we learn and how the teenage brain differs from that of children and adults. During this unit, we also looked at techniques to help meet the needs of the teenage brain and how mindset can influence our learning.

In English, our first unit is ‘The Travel Agency,’ based on a short story. At the start, the children did a quick assessment on story writing. The short story is about a girl who visits a travel agency, with various portals to different magical worlds. The children examined the features of fantasy stories and analysed the author’s techniques and the main character. Also,  we wrote a creative piece using figurative language; the children used their imaginations to describe objects that could be possible portals to another world. 

That is all for this week, I hope you have a relaxing weekend, and looking forward to seeing everyone back next week ready to learn some more.