Early Years

Children and greens are not synonymous, as most parents will attest after countless attempts to get their progeny to eat their greens. But, if eating is not on the menu (ahem!) children seem quite open to experimentation. Can you paint a tree using broccoli? Can you make a car using bread? C’mon! Take up the…

As a wise man once said: Show me your seed and I will show you your harvest. We plant a lot of seeds at College. Some are real and blossom into vegetables and flowers throughout the year. Some are virtual and blossom into the beautiful minds of young children and adults. Here we have year…

Just as bad habits tend to be ingrained early on in life, so, conversely are good habits. An excellent habit is that of having a good relationship with food: eat to live not live to eat, choose health, not greed and several other mantras. KG1Y approached this topic by printing fruit using paint as they…

What a glorious year full of new prospects! Anne Shirley Cuthbert was always full of enthusiasm in Anne of Green Gables. As we grow up this enthusiasm for life seems to dampen somewhat. looking at the faces of our young pupils, however, you can see the gleam of discovery the joy of living, the query…

All good stories start with the stock phrase ‘Once upon a time’. Well, this one does not. Early Years Head Ms Stephanie Grech was recently in touch with Dar Sagra Familja. This was part of an initiative undertaken together with the head of Junior School Ms Louise Mallia and Ms Abigail Brown, and was intended…

Gerald Durrell’s famous Corfu trilogy lent itself beautifully to this post. College is, indeed, like family and for the younger pupils, this family included also the Mounted Police and the K9 Section of the force. The children learnt about the horses and how the police take care of them. They heard how the dogs were…

Money can be a boon or a curse. At the tender age of six, however, it is just another challenge in the learning process. The Year 1 students started on the process not only of learning to recognise coins but also recognise value through shopping.

The joys of nature and natural joyousness were effortlessly combined in a visit which our younger pupils of Years 1 and 2 had at Majjistrall Park. After a discussion about the importance of nature and how we can contribute to it effectively, the students learnt much about fauna and flora as well as natural habitats.…

We worry for them, oh, how we worry! But they worry too, only not in the way we would think. Which way is the right way to go when adding? And when subtracting? Year 1Y students are learning what it means to ponder before taking the plunge.