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COREin Secondary
Students in Grades 6-12 participate in the COREprogramme, designed to address key areas for our young students:
- Providing a platform to continue developing our Advisory Programme
- Effectively embedding Service Learning into our program
- Providing more cooperation and interaction of students across grade levels, building better
school spirit
- Developing our ATL (Approaches to Learning) skills and seeing how they transfer across
disciplines
- Promoting among our scholars the IB learner profile attributes
- Encouraging students to seek a balanced academic/social life by becoming involved in Creative,
Active and Service activities, as preparation for the IB Diploma requirements in grade 11 and 12
- Encouraging student-led involvement and independent thinking/learning
- Facilitating involvement which contributes towards our new mission of inspiring curiosity about
ourselves and others, about new activities, embracing challenge and being ready to fail and learn from it. All of the CORE program is very closely focused on personal growth.
CORE is a vibrant and energetic part of the HIS curriculum during the school day where students are engaged in a range of different activities. Many of these activities used to be offered as ASAs starting at 3:00pm but that meant very long days for our students, without sufficient time for personal learning and relatively unstructured ?being a kid?time. This led HISto create the COREprogram. This unique program is in its second year and reflects HIS?commitment to diverse learning opportunities by dedicating time to within the school day for all students to explore activities like those listed below.
Students choose four activities per year : one creative, one active, one service and an additional one of greatest interest. For the 2018/2019 school year, MYP students chose from the following activities:
Choir
Adobe Skills
Striking Sports
Integrated Sports
Science Olympiad
Press and Journalism
Mt Pleasant Library
Island Hospice
PYP Tutoring
First Aid
Friends Animal Foundation
Crossfit
Ultimate Disc Adventure Racing Wilderness Preparation Production Design Backstage
Yearbook
Animal Conservation Aquathlon
Sepak Trakaw
Active Gaming
Fantasy Geoplotics Superskills
Art Appreciation
Rapid unassisted Motion Game Making
Interact
Badmington
GISS24 Hour Run Dzivarasekwa Club
As for ASAs (after 3:00) or Lunch Activities, these are now primarily ISSEA sports, other sports training, private music lessons, Student Council, MUN, among others.
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