The Tempest by William Shakespeare

At Nexus, all of the Year 6 learners are performing a play called ‘The Tempest’.

The story was written by William Shakespeare. In the Tempest, a magician, Prospero and his daughter Miranda, have been stuck on an island for 12 years when the people who plotted his end, King Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastian is spotted by the island. Prospero creates a tempest causing the ship to wreck. Later the magician acknowledged his mistakes and becomes kinder.

 

All the Year 6s have to do the play by ourselves with only a bit of teacher’s help. We have to bring in our own costumes and memorize song lyrics and lines.

So far, the Year 6’s have been practicing the songs, all very fitting for the scenes, and practicing our lines. At the speed we’re going at, we all feel confident and creative while for preparing the play.

Climbathon 2015

On 5th May Nexus International School Singapore organized a fundraiser to support the people in Nepal that have been affected by the massive and devastating earthquake near Katmandu, the capital.

The fundraiser was called the “Climbathon.” The Climbathon was basically walking all around the school which felt like going to Nepal and hiking one of the many mountains. Also every lap we walked, teachers from the school drew a line on our arm to tally how many laps we walked.

Although the Climbathon was tiring and hot everyone kept going even if they were worn-out because we knew it was for a good cause. Before the Climbathon the teachers told us the rules and talked us through the event so we knew what we needed to do.

After the Climbathon everyone felt contented with a deep sense of satisfaction because they knew they had done their best to help people in need. We haven’t been told yet how far we actually walked altogether or what our cumulative altitude was, so we’re looking forward to finding out soon.

Taking Action - Nepal Earthquake

Nepal Earthquake 25/04/2015

Nepal has had a major earthquake which caused lots of deaths, injuries and damage on homes. The earthquake was by the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. People are struggling to salvage what they’ve got and it will be hard for them the next few months. Lots of organizations from many different countries are working towards helping Nepal.

Nexus School has recently been solving this problem by donating coins for our own ‘Nepal Coin Challenge.’ Students had to collect all their coins and bring them into school for charity and later make them into a long trail.

Nexus managed to collect $8000SGD!

Editor's Update: It is being reported that there has been another earthquake in Nepal. Our thoughts go out to all those who are suffering terrible hardship there now. Please consider making a donation to legitimate organisations supporting those in need in Nepal.

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Our Exhibition gets into Full Gear - Exhibition Amazing Race

What an awesome start to our Exhibition 2015. Our groups completed the Transdisciplinary Amazing Race in their newly formed exhibition groups. All our activities were provided by the Single Subject specialists (Art, Music, PE, Languages and Library) and were made to develop both our collaboration and understanding of the PYP Key Concepts.

Google Glass

Over the weekend, Mr William went to learn about all sorts of new and interesting things Google is doing to support schools and learners around the world. He listened and spoke with very knowledgeale thinkers and met lots of interesting people. He was also lucky enough to be invited to try out  Google Glass with some super Google Learners from a local middle and high school. It was really exciting learning how to use the new technology and some ways it could be used in school but also some things to be careful of!

It was a great weekend!

Thinking about your learning, what did you learn about this weekend? Were you an inquirer?