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In their pastoral lessons, the Grade 9 students recently prepared a story for the Kindergarten and Grade 1 classes.  They told the story of The Gruffalo using “Makaton”. Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. This activity enabled Grade 9 students to work on adaptation and improvisation skills, empathy and communication 
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We recently celebrated Book Week at ISL. This time our theme was “One World Many Cultures”. We had a lot of different activities during the week looking at books from many different countries and celebrating the melting pot that is ISL. The week wouldn’t be complete without a big character parade, with everyone dressing as their favourite book or character. 
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During Book Week we had a visit from Bali Rai, a famous author of books for children and teens. He talked to all groups from Grade 4 to Grade 10 on many topics, like diversity and multiculturalism, reading for pleasure and the importance of being open minded when writing. The students enjoyed the talks and asked Bali Rai many questions, 
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In their English lessons, the Grade 8 students have been studying the novel Animal Farm, in which farm animals revolt against the tyranny of their human masters. Although the rebellion is a success, the freedom and equality the farm animals fought for are never realized. Instead, the pigs seize power through fear and manipulation (and the farm animals end up 
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As part of Senior Kindergarten’s unit of inquiry “How The World Works”, the students have been learning about different building materials and their properties. They read the story of The Three Little Pigs, then used the role play area to reenact the story. Finally, they created their very own pig puppet shows on the iPads. They decided that the straw 
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With the beginning of the year we jump right into our Buddy Reading activities in the Library. Classes are paired and the reading fun begins. This year the EYU will have the G5s as their Big Buddies; the G1 students are paired with the G3s and the G2 will be the G4s Little Buddies. This program aims at helping both younger 
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With more than a month still left in the school year, ISL can already boast 22 word millionaires! These students have read over 1 million words in their library books so far
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The Senior Kindergarten students recently had a special visit from two ‘mystery readers’ to celebrate the birthday of an incredible children’s author – Dr Seuss. Merrick and Troy’s
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Between the 13th and the 17th of March, the whole of ISL celebrated Book Week. And although every week at ISL could be considered a book week, this was a special occasion for everyone
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In the Kangaroo class, the Junior Kindergarten (JK) students are beginning to blend sounds. They can recognise the letter sounds and join them together to decode words. One
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