The IRIS Award students have been reading a special collection of books since December.  These Middle School students normally meet every two weeks to eat lunch and talk about the books they are reading. They completed the IRIS Award this … Continue reading Middle School students enjoy lunchtime book discussions

After studying two History units in Individuals & Societies, Grades 7 and 8 students reviewed highlights of events from the history of Exploration and Renaissance (Grade 7), and the Industrial Revolution, American Revolution and French Revolution (Grade 8). The students were divided into groups of two. Each group had to draw a timeline of events with about twenty previously chosen significant events, ranging from the beginning of Renaissance to the exploration of the Americas to the beginnings of slave labour and rise of wage labour in the Industrial Revolution and the invention of machines and technologies and the political revolutions … Continue reading Grades 7 and 8 Review Historical Timeline

Grade 6 students have just finished their chemistry unit on particle theory of matter. They were engaged in an activity to consolidate their learning for this unit. Various stations were set up where they got to observe varied behaviours of … Continue reading Grade 6 sees the particle theory in action