The conquest of space in Kinder
Space and Construction do not often go together, except that at St Edward’s College, in the kinder groups, they were the source of learning and fun. Spacetime KG2Z pupils transformed their classroom as they became astronauts this week and held a rocket experiment. The class helped set up and then watched as the rockets shot…
"Aħna lkoll Annimali" - yes, but not really
Last Friday all KG, Year 1 and Year 2 classes were signed up for an online Workshop through Culture Pass called ‘Aħna Lkoll Annimali’. The workshop was held in Maltese and involved puppetry, songs and role play. The students thoroughly enjoyed their time, learning new phrases and vocabulary, watched attentively, followed the story line, as…
The Numbers game
This week our Year 7 boys at St Edward’s College are learning the interesting topic of Statistics. They have been involved in collecting data amongst themselves. The topics discussed were their favourite colour, the colour of their eyes, pets, favourite film genre just to mention a few. Bar Charts were drawn to represent this data…
When is solution really a solution?
Well, you can always ask the Year 5s! Students in Year 5y have been experimenting with Mixtures, Solutions and Suspensions. They have learnt that water is a pure substance, but when you stir in other substances you create a mixture. When the substance, like sugar, dissolves in water, this is called a solution. On the other hand, a…
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…