Our Spanish students reconnected with Judit who had just returned from Spain. The girls used the ‘Flipgrid’ app to send her a flurry of video messages, and she replied to every single one. It was so nice for the girls to reconnect with her again and make her smile!
Our Year 8 girls studying French took part in a role play in French, our Year 9 beginners drew gorgeous characters and wrote a short paragraph in French to describe their clothes, and our Year 13 girls studied the history of Rap in French. Our Year 9 girls also played a few tricks on their parents on April fool’s day (Poisson d’avril)!
In Year 9 statistics our girls used items at home counting tins of beans and spaghetti in their cupboards. While in 13IB statistics, the girls investigated spending on ball dresses used Padlet to describe our feelings about school uniform.
Year 7 Geometry Our Year 9 te Reo Māori students made a poi, recipe or raranga (weaving). The girls then presented their culinary delights along with new te reo kupu (words) for the rest of the class. We hear their baking skills were notable! Our Year 12 Classics girls studied and performed readings from home from the Ancient Greek play ‘Oedipus the King’ which worked better than expected via video call! Whilst Year 13 Classics learnt about great buildings and works of art in Rome and got to be virtual tourists from home. Our Year 9 Option Art students photographed ‘Miniature worlds’ with their own phones or cameras available at home. The challenge for students was to be, inventive, resourceful and risk taking while making witty, fun and unusual contrasts between real life objects and areas in their ‘bubbles’ with their own small props, toys, figurines and homemade objects. The results are gorgeous, girls!
The variety offered across the Sciences didn’t let up during lockdown. Across Years 7–13, our Science teachers adapted the delivery of the curriculum to be suitable for students to learn at home. As you’ll see from these photos, there were very active learning moments had by all!
In Year 7 Drama our girls had a variety of tasks to choose from including creating a costume, making puppets, designing a set for a musical and connecting with a classmate to discuss musicals they had watched while our Year 10 Drama students wrote and performed a monologue based on an image of an unknown face.
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