Buildings Exit Point

Prepa has been learning about buildings and structures. As part of our Exit point, our parents built the city of San Salvador in the school’s playground; they created lots of buildings using boxes for us to play. We came back to school in the afternoon and stayed until it was dark! We saw that our playground had transformed into a city. We played and learnt a lot about buildings and the people that live or work in them. The next day we went on a Sightseeing tour around the city of San Salvador to look at different buildings and structures we learnt throughout this unit. We made different stops and learnt lots of facts about these amazing buildings, for example, who designed the buildings, in which year were they built, how tall are they, etc.

Developing International mindedness

To encourage our children to develop International mindedness we are currently working on an international project with a school in New Jersey, USA. We are in touch with two 2nd Grade classes from Elisabeth Morrow School. Children from 2nd Guzmán and 2nd Mena, from El Salvador, have written friendly letters to children at Elisabeth Morrow School, telling about the differences in school activities, weather, food, etc. between El Salvador and New Jersey. At the same time realising that most of them like the same things and enjoy doing the same activities! We received, via international mail, a box with their mascot, Red, White and Blue Teddy Bear and yesterday, we shipped our school's mascot, Rocky to them!

In IPC Food is fun!

Year 3 children from Academia Británica Cuscatleca have been learning in IPC everything about the unit Shaping Up, including having a healthy and balanced diet. We invited some mothers to help and encourage the children to prepare food in an innovative way using different ingredients. This activity encourage the children to taste new flavours and get excited about healthy food. At the end the children were asked to discuss some of the properties and benefits of the ingredients used. This involved them consolidating their learning and inspired some excellent discussions between them.

IPC Voting Milepost 3

On Friday 8th March children from grades 3 and 4 (next year’s MP3) were given the opportunity to express their views regarding the choice of units for our new IPC route map. After an entertaining presentation from Mrs Avilés, our MP3 coordinator, describing a selection of the units and their learning goals, the children had to choose the five units which they felt would engage them best in their learning and then justify their choices. The "voting slips" were put into a ballot box and later counted up by members of the school council. The final data from the activity is shown in the graph below. The children are very clear that making the final Route Map is the responsibility of the milepost coordinators so as to ensure a balanced curriculum within and between mileposts, but were, nevertheless, very pleased to have been consulted about their future learning and had some useful insights to share with us.

 

The results are as follows:

We are in our second full year of learning with the IPC and loving every minute of it.