Term 1 – Week 5

After a storm-interrupted start to the week, we got straight into it and did lots of learning. A great thank you to all for your understanding about the school closure at such short notice, but the student’s safety is our top concern.

In Math, we looked at functions, expressions and equations and learned how to construct expressions from word situations, use expressions to find missing values, collect like terms, expanding brackets and inequalities. This brings us to the end of the unit and the chance for the students to show how much they have mastered the skills in an end-of-unit test on Monday.

We started a new unit in IMYC, called competition, where the big picture will be: “Trying to beat others have good and bad consequences”. On Tuesday we had our entry point where the class competed in a variety of physical and mental competitions to set the mood and get a feel of what competition can be like even if it is just in a class context. The students also had a debate on “Competition is healthy for young people at school”

In Science, we will be looking at the properties of metals and the reactivity series of metals. In ICT, we look at how ICT and computing have changed and are used in how people compete with one another, currently, the learners are looking at the good and bad consequences of competing online. There is also a Physical Education aspect to the unit where we looked at the good and bad influences of competition in professional football.

In English, we are coming to the end of our unit, ‘Travel Agency,’ a fantasy unit. This week we analysed different fantasy stories and wrote point, evidence, and explanation paragraphs to answer questions. The students also started to plan and write their own fantasy stories.

That is all for this week, I hope everyone has a good weekend and get back next week full of enthusiasm and ready to learn.