Red and Proud! A female’s body is fragile, and unfortunately, not all women have the privilege of understanding their bodies. Some societies often treat it as something mysterious or forbidden. However, joining the Ghana Girl’s Guide Association alongside Senam Dzakpatsu, Ashley Asante, and Alicia Asante from SOS HGIC, Kendall Codjoe, and myself (G11) from Tema International…
Service as Action is simply termed as “learning by doing”. It is the core of the MYP that provides a unique experience for MYP students to become actors in the real world by applying concepts learnt in the classroom to real-life situations. As such, MYP 2 students are Taking Action from their favoruite Units. On…
As you may know, every year the Middle Years Programme requires MYP3 students (Grade 8) to come up with ideas for a community project in groups. For our project we are refurbishing a library at St. John’s Academy at Ashaiman, Lebanon. During our time of being at home and at school, we were able to…
During the break, Nissi Arday, G10, undertook a service experience by raising Autism Awareness in collaboration with HopeSetters Autism Center. During the festive season, she thought about persons living with Autism who may not even realize it’s that celebratory time of the year. Her goal, therefore, is to create awareness and educate people on Autism…
This experience is one of the most memorable events I have ever engaged in, even though it didn’t start off as well as I expected with the bad weather conditions and the tiny tent. Kayaking and paintballing on the second day were amazing, as it helped me realize I could do anything I set my…
The scheduled IDU days @TIS were observed from Wednesday to Friday last week. IDU stands for Interdisciplinary Unit. The IDU days occur when the Secondary school timetable is collapsed for 3 days to allow all MYP students to take part in an Interdisciplinary Unit of work. Interdisciplinary learning supports students to understand knowledge taken from…
The MYP 5 Geography class of Tema International School participated in the 2020 World Geographic Information Systems (GIS) day celebrations on Wednesday, 18 November 2020. In order to meet the COVID-19 protocols, this year’s event was held virtually via ZOOM and hosted by AccuGeospatial. The event involved activities such as industry-based GIS presentations from the…
Acadia Miles-Darko, Tiffany Forson, Malick Cisse and Kevin Owusu-Afriyie are the initiators of One Bite Zero Hunger Community Project. With the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 2 at the back of their minds, they wish to contribute their quota to make their community a better place. According to the UN, SDG No2 is designed…
How do we communicate? Do we have to always buy our gas? How do I change my style of writing to support my message? Can I measure happiness? The IB way of learning states that there are several different ways to arrive at an answer. For each method used there will be advantages and disadvantages.…
The Community Project allows student to take their learning outside the four walls of the classroom and learn to become responsible citizens of the community around them and beyond. One of the community Projects by Grade 8 students titled, “TaekwonDO it”, initiated by Eugene Cobbinah, Winston Mwindare & Emmanuel Essel is one such authentic learning.…
