Arriba! Science & Maths

“Technology is best when it brings people together” – Matt Mullenweg

Last September 15, 2021, the CKSC-IB department held a successful Science-Maths Celebration, with the SOI: Global interactions form relationships that lead to ingenuity and progress, hosted by Alyssa Kassandra Go and Jimmy Stephen Asuero of Grade 11-IA, DP and an IB-Student Council officers respectively.

Ms. Li-Ling Ma, IB Continuum Development Head, gave her opening remarks, highlighting the significance of science and mathematics in the curriculum and in everyday life followed by the talk of the invited resource speakers, Ms. Serena Martha Jane Hay, a mathematics professor from Glasgow, Scotland, and Ms. Krishna Vyas, an MYP Science Team Leader from Surat, India, who contributed their knowledge and perspectives on the program's statement of inquiry with focus on the significance of the two subjects, Maths and Science. The program involved activities organized by the IB department's Science and Math teachers.

Among the highlights of the program was the culminating activity, which required the IB students to visit three (3) different breakout rooms every 15 minutes to participate in simultaneous activities. 

The first activity was an educational film titled "This Helicopter Just Flew on Mars," that explained the first drone, the Mars Helicopter, which would fly and land on Mars, while the second activity included a variety of interactive online math games appropriate for different grade levels, such as number patterns and solving multi-step equations. Students in grades 7 and 8 had to drag tiles to answer and navigate arrow keys to solve equations, math tank algebra, and angle invaders, while students in Grades 9 and 10 must use algebra probing to solve equations. Tangram, a puzzle-making activity played by students in Grades 11 and 12 involved forming basic, animal, and geometric problems. The last activity was a science-related interactive online activity; grades 7 and 8 enjoy the fidget power and feed the fidgets, which has something to do with electricity and pipe design with plants and animals, while grades 9 and 10 were assigned to make a science design, and grades 11 and 12 were assigned to build activities.

Student takeaways that contribute towards the development of the trait of being a reflective student are always a part of every IB department event. Here are some of the student’s reflections from the activities:

“Global interactions play a key role in progress from how one person improves the idea of one another to create even greater inventions. Global interaction promotes collaboration, intercultural, communication, and progress. When we humans share our ideas from different places, times, situations and life, we create a greater idea with inspiration from different lives different from our own.” – Carlyn Luzentales of 7JS

“Two minds are better than one. No one knows everything, and through global interaction, we can work together, share, and combine our knowledge and skills. By doing this we not only gain more variety in perspective, but we as a group also gather more information to work on.” –Kaye Monique Cua of 7JS

“Global interactions allow us to collaborate with other people and share ideas and facts with each other. Global interactions can also help speed up the development of certain things like Mathematics.” – Zachary Tan of 9NL

“I think global interactions play a key role in the topic discussed by the speaker is that because of math we need to vocalize or relate our findings in math to the world so that we would all be together and in sync with all math discoveries so that when someone has a breakthrough they might be able to help the world just like with vaccines where you need to share it with the world.” – Nathan Laborada of 10JG

“Global interaction plays a key role in progress and development since they allow people from different cultures and origins to collaborate and share their ideas together, synthesizing new knowledge. For example, if it weren’t for the contribution of Scottish scientists like Bell or Maxwell, we might have a completely different system in our technology or knowledge of physics.” – Carlos Benedict Ong of 11-IA

‘Global interactions help us to have a better understanding of what we are learning. After listening to what the speaker said, I felt that math is almost the same in many countries. However, the education may differ among countries.” –Zachary Bill Zhang

The event was subsequently brought to a close by Mr. Glierio Manalo's poignant closing remarks, which was followed by an IB community photo op.

Arriba! Science and Maths!

Parent Coffee 3

MYP parents participated in the third online interactive coffee symposium on October 23, 2021 (Saturday) from 9 am to 11 am. The purpose of this symposium is to give parents an in-depth understanding of the school's IB MYP academic integrity policy and inclusive education policy.

MYP Grade 7&8 coordinator, Ms. Diane Lee presided over the parent symposium. Before the forum officially started, the host shared different MYP interactive bridges with the parents, such as parent-teacher WeChat group, Viber group, and Tuesday morning tea, and thanked the parents for participating in the student-led parent conference. At the same time, Ms. Lee also took this opportunity to invite all parents to participate in the Curriculum day to be held at the end of November.

The MYP academic integrity policy and procedures of our school were explained by MYP Grade 9&10 coordinator, Mr. Glicerio Manalo. Mr. Manalo shared the importance of academic integrity, some methods for parents, tutors, and teachers to train children to practice academic integrity and in completing their homework independently, and the different processes of handling cases of violations and its measures.

The MYP inclusion policy of our school is led by our MYP learning support specialist, Ms. Ainah Okano. Ms. Okano explained some keywords related to inclusive education, school referral procedures, and different learning support plans.

After the question and answer session between parents and teachers, the symposium ended successfully with a group photo. 

The International Week celebration of the Primary Years Programme at a glance

The Grade 3 students wrote their appreciation letters to the health workers and front-liners who are tirelessly helping and taking care of the Covid19 patients. They are grateful for continuously helping people in the community. The letters will be sent to the nurses, doctors and hospital personnel of Fabelia Medical Center in Sampaloc, Manila.

The Grade 2 students shared with the community how they coped with the Covid19 Pandemic, especially on how they managed to cope with the changes it has brought - from attending online classes to doing everything at home. They also shared how they stay connected with their friends and family despite the need to be distant from each other. The students wished everyone to stay safe and healthy so everyone will be able to see each other and do things together soon.

The Grade 4 students sent their heartfelt messages and encouragement to all the people who were affected by the Covid19 Pandemic. They encouraged everyone to continuously protect each other by following the protocols given by the government. The students also sent messages of hope to those people who got infected by the virus, lost their family members, loved ones, jobs and homes, that they’ll continue to stay strong, keep the fight, never lose hope and remember that they are not alone.