For those on FB - Gail Weeks collects book donations and then sells them online with all money going to support refugee programs and the urban poor in KL. A great community service and a great way to collect quality literature for home.

Recognising achievement in Year 10- sharing beautiful visual plans to highlight “well-defined ideas” with “varieties of focus” for descriptive writing. M. Berry-Khella Looking forward to read drafts later this week.#GISLearning

Supporting ARTober Art GIS in Yr 7 English with M. Berry-Khella - creating fantasy settings to complete our study of genre. #GISlearning

Yr 7: Last week before midterm break- keeping the energy up by racing to list the most fairytales and to explore and report on what we know about this conventions of this genre.#GISlearning #active-learning

Students have created avatars to move through different spaces to develop descriptive pieces.#interdisciplinary # TheBigDraw

Year 7 - everyone taking a turn to speak in our drama unit- interviewing Little Red Riding hood and/ or the wolf.

Year 7 with M. Berry-Khella reviewing characters in order to write diary entries. #GISLearning

Year 7: we picked up books for the holiday and got a head start on our holiday reading today.

Year 10 students start studying prose- a novel this week. Today students studying To Kill A Mockingbird immersed themselves in a walk through Maycomb to better understand 1930s small town life in the American South. #GisLearning

Congratulations to Avani and Yeri our KS4 and KS3 winners of the English Short Story competition. Their work has been sent off to the FOBISIA competition, to represent GIS. All the best! #gislearning

Year 7 English with M. Berry-Khella developing annotations: pre-reading, teacher modelling, working on paper, sharing with the class- all engaged and contributing.

Dear students- make sure you get into the Library GIS SEC LIBRARY this week for Book Week. The librarians have done an amazing job setting up activities for you! #BookWeek #gislearning

Year 9 actively working with story teller Mara Menzies mara menzies during Book Week. Lesson learned- be careful what “bones” you throw out! #gislearning #ActiveLearning

Students need to read in a variety of ways. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Year 7 - what a great community event to link to your study of drama- fairytales.

Yr 7 students are starting a non- fiction unit focussing on Mythical Creatures: beginning with a mapping activity to check our prior knowledge, building on awareness from our home countries and appreciating the universal nature of mythical creatures and stories. #GISlearning

Year 8 is exploring changing trends. Using Flip info.flip.com/en-us.html the students were able to share their protest poems, celebrate individual success and offer critical commentary. Great work 8K @ BerryKhella