Preschool Newsletter December, 2019
Campus Upgrades
L’ecole has always focused on providing new and innovative facilities for its students, and bearing this in mind some exciting additions have been made to the Campus. Sports activities is the key to physical, mental, intellectual and social well-being of children. It impacts hugely on almost every developmental aspect of children’s lives. We have introduced…
Scaffolding for student learning
‘He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.’ Friedrich Nietzsche We’ve all experienced it. Either as teachers or students. The teacher repeats herself for the third time but still makes no progress with that one student on…
Too Many Languages
How many languages are too many to teach a primary or secondary student? Two? Three? Four? Five? In Sindh government schools, we currently attempt to teach four: Urdu, Sindhi, English, and Arabic. Urdu is the national language. Sindhi, endemic to this ancient land. English remains the international language for the foreseeable future, and Arabic the…
Science fair challenges STEM, and then some.
In a science fair, learners present the projects or the experiments they have worked on and compete with other learners. Science fair develops learners’ interest in science and helps increase their knowledge about it. The main purpose of the science fair is to allow learners to find solutions to problems through experiment. Project Genres I…