Brain Gym – a new form of exercise?
This may not be the one to burn calories, though you never know with students. Ms Anabel Laus decided to rev up her Year 8s with a rousing session of Brain Gym, designed to boost concentration.
Rocketman comes to St Edward’s College
KG2 students continue to explore their Space topic as the classes are now filled with spacemen, rockets, and planets. Topic learning allows our youngest pupils to learn within a concept, and through games. KG2W played number games using rockets as they practised their number value skills. KG2V learnt all about the sound ‘r’ for ‘rocket’ […]
The Art of Rhetoric
TEFL lessons at St Edward’s College are never boring, especially with five energetic volcanoes from TEFL 7 who add so much variety to what is happening in the classroom it cannot be described in a few words. It is not only due to their never-ending energy resources, but also because of their cultural richness and […]
On the Farm with Nursery Y
Our nursery classes use the Emergent Curriculum approach for their topic learning. Thus, our nursery team use their continuous observations to identify common interests of our youngest students at College. This time round, our Nursery Y students have shown increasing interest in their class farm animals resources. Therefore, it was a given that ‘On the […]
Forging new educational paths
There are moments in our daily work as educators that we will never forget. This morning an Early Years boy, greeted me, ‘Good Morning Headmonster’. Precious! (if I am Headmonster that makes all the other staff…?). PD Day This coming Monday, May, 3rd, we will have all staff involved in a PD day. There will be no […]
Compost it! Making the best out of food waste during Covid -19
An article by Jamie Scerri Richard and the Eko-Skola Committee at St Edward’s College In Malta, Food Waste is one of the most underrated issues in the media. If people have food to eat, few are those who spend time to think about the waste generated by their food. As per Eurostat report 2020, […]
Maltese gets foodie
As part of their current topic ‘L-Ikel’ Year 1Y boys had a sandwich making activity. Each student brought in his ingredients and made their favourite sandwich, which of course they then enjoyed eating. The students were asked to explain what their sandwich was made of to the class. The students identified common ingredients as well […]
Focus on fine motor skills
At St Edward’s College, we place great emphasis on fine motor development for our Early Years students. Fine motor muscles, just like any other muscles, develop over time and young students especially need to use them periodically to strengthen them. Activities whereby students are encouraged to manipulate objects during their play and craft making help […]
Young adults funning it out
Over the past few days, the students at St Edward’s College experienced the joy of reunion. After months, almost a whole scholastic year, of online learning, over the past few weeks, they have returned to school and were re-united with their friends. The college maintains strict class bubbles so that even where the students were […]
Little farmers
At St Edward’s College, KG1Z had a blast helping Joey water the plants and their growing potato produce which they had planted in March! The class also spoke about composting and where taken to see the bins. Thanks to SEC Eko-Skola they saw related videos and discussed the importance of food and not wasting.