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collage of photos of students doing science experiments
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Scientist of the Week

In our unit of inquiry ‘How the World Works’, G1 students have been enthusiastically engaged in our Scientist of the Week project, where each student presented a science experiment to their classmates. We delved into hands-on activities, exploring static electricity, experimenting with the interactions of acidic and basic ingredients, and exploring the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic items. The classroom …
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2 boys holding water bottles connected together, demonstrating how a vortex works
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Grades 3 & 4 – ÉbulliScience

Grades 3 and 4 recently had a fantastic visit to ÉbulliScience in Vaux-en-Velin, where they participated in a workshop on levers, linked to their current Unit of Inquiry titled “How the World Works”, which is about simple machines.  Students were invited to follow the procedures for scientific investigation by observing, hypothesising and then trying out various experiments!
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Service Learning with Grade 4 and Grade 6

Grades 4 and 6 recently joined forces to teach each other about different aspects of Ancient Rome as part of their current curriculum studies.  Who knew that the Romans ate peacock brains and flamingo tongues?! Or that they marched their soldiers in formation for kilometre after kilometre before the battle even began?!
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A science teacher mixing liquids in a test tube in a primary classroom
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Science with Grade 1 and 2

The Grade 1s and 2s had a visit from our very own Dr. Feeney to kick off our science unit of inquiry, which falls under the transdisciplinary theme of How The World Works. He taught us about chemistry and demonstrated the importance of his many science tools and safety equipment. The students got a good look into the world of …
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A 3D cityscape made from coloured paper on a dark-blue background
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Kindergarten Cityscapes

As part of our transdisciplinary theme on How the World Works and our studies on height and length in Maths, the Senior Kindergarten students made 3D cityscapes from paper and cardboard. They had to think carefully about the size of each of the buildings that they created when placing them in their cityscapes, placing the taller ones at the back …
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Kindergarten students building bridges with blocks and testing them with colourful teddy bear figures
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Building Bridges in Senior Kindergarten

As part of their Unit of Inquiry under the transdisciplinary theme of How The World Works, the Senior Kindergarten students have been busy building and testing the strength of bridges. They have discovered many things along the way and amongst their huge successes, they have had many collapsed bridges too! Take a look at some of their stronger structures below.
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Students sitting on a large piece of paper, testing out their art robots.
03/04/20232022-2023 School Year, , , , , , by

Building Robots in Grades 1 & 2

The Grade 1s and 2s have been learning all about inventions in their unit of inquiry, Where We Are In Place And Time. The Grade 1s used their problem-solving skills to build inventions
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Kindergarten student using pastels to make art
07/03/20232022-2023 School Year, , , , by

Mondrian-Inspired Art in JK

In our current Unit of Inquiry (How We Express Ourselves), the Junior Kindergarten (Kangaroo) class are talking about arts, and one of the artists they have learned about
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Explorers: Tuning In

The Grade 3s were recently tuning in to their new unit of inquiry “Where We Are In Place And Time” with a focus on how explorers can change the way people live. They had to create a representation of what they
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A teacher demonstrating the properties of light using lasers
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Illuminating Investigations in Grade 2

This week the Grade 2s visited Dr. Feeney’s lab and got to witness a variety of cool light experiments linked to their unit of inquiry “How the World Works”. The central idea of the
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