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The MS Visual Arts program in Grade 8 is focused on the development of creative thinking and expression. Students will experience different aspects of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and digital art. Students peer assess, self-assess and reflect regularly throughout the course. They work in groups, pairs, and individually, and participate regularly in discussions linking to core classes, community, and service whenever possible. Students are encouraged to participate in weekly art challenges and art competitions. The visual arts assessment consists of both the finished products (Studio Work) and the process of artistic investigation and development (Art Journal and Blog). This two-part assessment, Studio Work and the Art Journal, is standard in middle school and high school art classes.

This course encourages you to become more aware of global problems. It offers you opportunities to explore issues you are interested in; to work independently and to research on your own. It also gives you the chance to build your team-working skills of collaboration and co-operation as you work with others to explore solutions to local issues. The course is not about getting everybody to think identically; it is about finding out what others think and feel about the global issues of today, reflecting on different perspectives and taking others’ ideas into consideration. 

Welcome to your IGCSE World Literature course. Here, you will learn, share, appreciate and enjoy! Your talents and creativity are invited and highly appreciated! The idea is to enjoy literature from different parts of the world and different periods of time, while we work toward the development of literary analysis and academic writing skills.

The IGCSE First Language Spanish Course is a two-year course for students in Grades 9 and 10 whose command of the language is that of native or near native users. This course affords the students the opportunity to develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills for a wide range of academic and communicative purposes. Students will respond with understanding to a rich array of reading texts during the course as a whole. Candidates will use these texts to inform and inspire their own writing, and will write in a range of text types for different purposes and audiences. Candidates are encouraged to become appreciative and critical readers, writers, speakers and listeners.

IGCSE Economics course emphasize in the basic concepts needed for students to understand main economic theories. For example, in an approach to microeconomic theory, it includes themes like: the basic economic problem, resource allocation, the individual as producer, consumer and borrower, the role of a government in an economy and the private firm. On the other hand, in terms of macroeconomics and international aspects, the course provide a wide range of topics such as: economic indicators, developed and developing economies, current account of the balance of payment, exchange rates, the merits of the free trade, the merits of protection, among others. These economic theories are not to be studied in a vacuum-rather, they are to be applied to real-world issues. Prominent among these issues are fluctuations in economic activity and environmental sustainability.

Grade 9-10 Course Summary

Students will examine the factors that affect performance in sports. They will identify functions of the skeleton and their relevance to performance and participation in practical activities. Students should also study the different types of joints, the essential parts of joints, and types and ranges of movements. They should know the most important muscles groups and their role in movement and how they work.  

Grade 9-10 students should gain an understanding of what motivates people to participate in physical activities and how they prepare for exercise, understand how skills are learned.

Besides, grade 9-10 students will analyze Healthy Eating, Growth and Development, and Personal Safety and Injury Prevention.

This course provide all you need to prepare for your Cambridge IGCSE in French qualification. It also teaches you about the way of life of the people in the French-speaking world and about the language they speak.

The purpose of advisory is to promote meaningful relationships between school staff (or advisory teacher) and students while providing academic and social emotional support to students. Through weekly check-ins with the advisory teacher, students will experience a more personalized learning environment with a structure and set of practices for monitoring and encouraging academic progress, social emotional learning, and personal growth.

Economics is essentially about dealing with scarcity and the problem of resource allocation affecting individuals, firms and markets, countries, governments and societies. Although it involves the formulation of theory, it’s not a purely theoretical subject basically because economic theories can be applied to real-world. It does not exist in a vacuum, because it naturally must consider how economic theory is to be applied in an international context.

Hello!

This is the course for Grade 10 students studying World Literature IGCSE.

The course starts on 23rd August 2021. 

Your teacher is Ms Xismara. You can reach me at xismara@ish.co.cu.

This is your end of year History examination.

The topic is: Who Started the Cold War?

The examination has 2 parts:

1. A choice of 2 "why" questions (similar to the 6 point IGCSE Paper 1 questions) from 4 options.

2. You will write a dramatic dialogue between 2 individuals who hold differing opinions about who was responsible for starting the Cold War.

You are permitted use any resources available to you (with the exception of colluding with your classmates). Be aware that your responses will be submitted to an online plagiarism check, so ensure that this is your own work and any quotations are properly cited.

Grade 10 IGCSE P.E course description

When studying the Cambridge IGCSE Music syllabus, learners listen to, perform and compose music, encouraging aesthetic and emotional development, self-discipline and, importantly, creativity. As a result, learners enhance their appreciation and enjoyment of music, an achievement that forms an ideal foundation for future study and enhances lifelong musical enjoyment. Learners study music of all styles; each style is placed in its historical and cultural context, and learners are encouraged to be perceptive, sensitive and critical when listening.

Cambridge IGCSE Art & Design encourages a range of skills, stimulates aesthetic awareness, knowledge and critical understanding of art, and provides opportunities for learners to develop a range of skills. Crucially, a personal and independent perspective is encouraged at all times. The syllabus is designed to accommodate a wide range of abilities, materials and resources, and allows the different skills of the teaching staff to be fully used.

The syllabus appeals to learners who wish to explore practical work through a range of two- and/or three-dimensional processes and include new media and technologies in addition to traditional media and processes.

In this course, you will be able to develop your literary analysis skills and your personal appreciation of literature and its effects on readers. You will become aware of style and of how authors construct meaning. You will explore your own and others' creativity and consolidate your academic writing skills.

This course is aimed at ISH Grade 11 students who are doing the IBO Physics course at Standard and Higher Levels. It covers 4 and 3 units of the IBO program (starting from 2016) for SL and HL Physics respectively. Here students can find different resources that will help them in completing the following topics:  Measurements and uncertainties; Waves; Electricity and magnetism; Atomic, nuclear, and particle Physics together with Wave phenomena (HL); Fields (HL), and Electromagnetic induction (HL).

Welcome to your Theory of Knowledge course? Let's question the truth by thinking outside the box! Enjoy this journey of discovery!

Economics is an exciting, dynamic subject that allows students to develop an understanding of the complexities and interdependence of economic activities in a rapidly changing world.

At the heart of economic theory is the problem of scarcity. While the world’s population has unlimited needs and wants, there are limited resources to satisfy these needs and wants. As a result of this scarcity, choices have to be made. The economics course, at both SL and HL, uses economic theories to examine the ways in which these choices are made:

• at the level of producers and consumers in individual markets (microeconomics)

• at the level of the government and the national economy (macroeconomics)

• at an international level where countries are becoming increasingly interdependent through international trade and the movement of labour and capital (the global economy).

The choices made by economic agents (consumers, producers and governments) generate positive and negative outcomes and these outcomes affect the relative well-being of individuals and societies. As a social science, economics examines these choices through the use of models and theories. The Diploma Programme (DP) economics course allows students to explore these models and theories, and apply them, using empirical data, through the examination of the following six real-world issues which are posed as economic questions:

• How do consumers and producers make choices in trying to meet their economic objectives?

• When are markets unable to satisfy important economic objectives—and does government intervention help?

• Why does economic activity vary over time and why does this matter?

• How do governments manage their economy and how effective are their policies?

• Who are the winners and losers of the integration of the world’s economies?

• Why is economic development uneven?

WELCOME TO THE NEW ACADEMIC YEAR 2021 - 2022 !!!

This course is aimed at ISH Grade 11 students who are doing the IBO Physics course at a Standard Level. It covers 5 units of the IBO program for Physics (starting from 2016). Here students can find different resources that will help them in completing the following topics:  Measurements and errors, Mechanics, Circular Motion, Thermal Physics and Waves

Available at both higher and standard levels, the language B courses are designed for students with some previous experience of learning the target language.

Mathematics: applications and interpretation is for students who are interested in developing their mathematics for describing our world and solving practical problems. They will also be interested in harnessing the power of technology alongside exploring mathematical models. Students who take Mathematics: applications and interpretation will be those who enjoy mathematics best when seen in a practical context.

Students who wish to take Mathematics: applications and interpretation at higher level will have good algebraic skills and experience of solving real-world problems. They will be students who get pleasure and satisfaction when exploring challenging problems and who are comfortable to undertake this exploration using technology.

The language A: literature aims at exploring the various manifesta­tions of literature as a particularly powerful mode of writing across cultures and throughout history. The course aims at developing an understanding of factors that contribute to the production and reception of literature—the creativity of writers and readers, the nature of their interaction with their respective contexts and with literary tradition, the ways in which language can give rise to meaning and/or effect, and the performative and transformative potential of literary creation and response. Through close analysis of a range of literary texts in a number of literary forms and from different times and places, students will consider their own inter­pretations as well as the critical perspectives of others, to explore how such positions are shaped by cultural belief systems and to negotiate meanings for texts.

This course is aimed at ISH Grade 12 students who are doing the IBO Physics course at a Standard Level. It covers 5 units of the IBO program for Physics (starting from 2016). Here students can find different resources that will help them in completing the following topics:  Waves (cont), Electricity and Magnetism, Energy production and Atomic Physics.

Mathematics: applications and interpretation is for students who are interested in developing their mathematics for describing our world and solving practical problems. They will also be interested in harnessing the power of technology alongside exploring mathematical models. Students who take Mathematics: applications and interpretation will be those who enjoy mathematics best when seen in a practical context.

How is this course different from SL?

Looking at areas of knowledge (Art, History, Maths, Natural and Human Sciences) as well as other knowledge systems, and considering how perspectives, scope and ethics change. 

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