Save the Date
SAVE THE DATE Join us during our OPEN EVENING on Wednesday 6th April from 18:00 to 20:30 hours. This is an opportunity for prospective Sixth Form students and their parents to view our Sixth Form areas and to meet with teachers who will be available to discuss your queries about their subject. Ms Eleanor Abela, Career Advisor, will also be available to guide you. All parents and students who do not already attend St Martin’s College are to present their Covid Vaccination Certificate at the door.
Beach Clean-up
Beach Clean-up A beach clean-up was recently organised to inculcate in Level 7 students an awareness of the imminent threat that the use of single-use plastics and their wrong disposal is causing the environment. Students together with their respective teachers and key volunteers from Din L-Art Helwa Mellieha visited Armier Bay, Little Armier Bay, White Tower Bay, and Coral Lagoon Bay for this task. Provided with gloves, pickers, and numerous bags, guided by the organisers, students spent an entire school day along the seashore cleaning the above-mentioned beaches in a thorough manner. Whilst picking up rubbish lying on the beach students kept a note of the different types they found. Amongst the most common were plastic items such as bottles and bags, cans, snack bags, paper, bottle caps, chair and table parts, rope, nets, and shoes. Students were also given a tour of the White Tower which was recently conserved. Before returning to school, the organizers informed that collectively 305 kilos of rubbish had been collected. Thank you to Daniela Cini and Albert Attard from Din L-Art Helwa Mellieha and a massive well done to all!
Art Option Programme
Art Option Programme Level 9 and Level 10 students from our Art option Programme, visited a number of Art Museums and Exhibitions during an outing in Valletta last Friday. At MUZA, Malta's National Community Art Museum, they discussed and sketched important works from JWM Turner, Antonio Sciortino and Giuseppe Cali' and viewed the temporary exhibition "Giorgio Preca ta' Malta", a Maltese artist who was courageous and innovative in his work despite the public opinion at the time . They also visited an exhibition at Spazju Kreattiv by a leading local contemporary artist, Austin Camilleri "Le.Iva: Anger is a Lazy Form of Grief". The students were very lucky to meet the artist himself and the International world known curator Roza Martinez and assistant curator Irene Biolchini. This outing gave our students the opportunity to analyse and discuss various works of arts, whilst appreciating the work of top local artists
Championing Community Spirit
Championing Community Spirit As part of the school’s mission towards championing community spirit and promoting sustainability our CHS wellbeing team organised an initiative during which Early Years staff members were offered a warm ‘Fairtrade’ drink as a thoughtful act to complement kindness week. Level 5 pupils contributed towards this activity by preparing ‘Fairtrade’ facts, which they learnt during D.E.C - Earth Matters Programme. These facts were handed out to staff with their warm drink.
Dress to Express Day at Chiswick House School
Dress to Express Day at Chiswick House School This week we celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week which focused on the theme Growing Together. Throughout the week we encouraged pupils and staff members to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others grow. It was also an opportunity for us to shine a spotlight on children’s mental health and the importance of sharing/speaking to someone whenever one feels the need. To close off our week, pupils and staff were asked to come to school dressed in any clothes which they feel best expresses who they are.
Global and Cultural Perspectives
Global and Cultural Perspectives Global and Cultural Perspectives is a new learning area for our Level 3, 4 and 5 pupils to further promote 21st century learning. Chiswick House School is proud to have launched this internationally renowned programme which our leaners have taken up with great enthusiasm. During these lessons pupils explore and critically analyze global issues to come up with creative solutions. This new learning area is in line with our School Improvement Process which aims to design and implement a global perspective for sustainable living. Through a project-based approach, learners embark on a cultural journey during which they decide what they wish to research about and collaboratively put together a project to present to the class. Our Level 3s are seen here working on their GCP projects about Għar Dalam and Skorba Phase. Fantastic teamwork. Well done to all!
Trevor Zahra
Trevor Zahra Level 3s enjoyed a virtual visit with author Trevor Zahra. Before the session pupils read a few of his books and learnt how to write a book review. They also learnt about Trevor Zahra and discussed what sort of questions they wished to ask him during the session. A wonderful experience for our Level 3s! This session formed part of the theme ‘Heroes and Villains’.
Library
Library The wonderful series of 'Little People, Big Dreams' has been added to our Chiswick House School library collection. This illustrated series for kids by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, explores the lives of outstanding people. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.