This week saw the beginning of new IMYC Units for Year 7, 8 and 9. The ‘Big Ideas’ shown below will underpin teaching and learning for the rest of this term. On Monday, the three classes experienced the entry points for the new units. The pictures below show some of the activities undertaken to focus the students’ thinking on the Big Idea of Adaptability.

Year 7 Adaptability

The Big Idea
Adaptability is demonstrated by the ability to change, alter or cope with new environments or circumstances.

Year 8 Reflection

The Big Idea
Complex decision-making requires space and time.

Year 9 Development

The Big Idea
Long lasting changes take place slowly over time.

Art with Year 3 & 4

The children in Year 3 & 4 have been working diligently on their fantastic still life compositions. The French artist, Paul Cézanne was their inspiration.

French with Year 1 & 2

Exercice d'écriture réalisé avec les élèves de Yr.1/Yr.2.
Objectif : Construire un maximum de phrases en réutilisant le vocabulaire abordé en classe depuis le mois de septembre.

This weekend the students will be celebrating Halloween with their friends. To start off the festivities, they will visit Europa Park for the Halloween themed rides. Once they return, they will have a Halloween themed day on Saturday with a Halloween party and scary evening dinner! All the students and staff enjoy the Halloween day and taking part in the costume competition, dressing up and being as scary as possible!

Arriving in the early morning, the students went on a fascinating walking tour around the historical city of Valletta in Malta. We visited the old town with its fortresses, ancient churches, government buildings and narrow streets, all built around the natural harbour.

We then had a whole day at sea on our way to Barcelona, during which the students were able to make the most of the fantastic facilities on the MSC Meraviglia.

Winter has just started to raise its head again and with the change in the clocks at the weekend, the early evenings have come back. With this in mind, we have been setting up the boarding houses again and the common rooms, adapting them to the time of year. With ping-pong, pool, cooking and PS4 as part of the evening activities sometimes, the students are spoilt for choice, not to mention the themed evenings, parties and reading evenings mixed in.