Transdisciplinary learning at Northbridge International School Cambodia is a curriculum approach that goes across, between and beyond subjects. Emphasis is placed on integrated learning where subjects explore a theme, problem or concept in depth.
This year specialist teachers in music and visual art have had the opportunity to work alongside grade level teachers to explore the transdisciplinary theme ‘How We Express Ourselves’.
This has allowed for specialist teachers to offer their expertise by exploring the central idea through a music and visual arts lense and for students to make connections beyond the boundaries of traditional subjects.
This semester, Grade 1 students have explored the central idea, ‘Ideas and Feelings Inspire Creativity’.
Within the classroom students have investigated links between music and visual art. They were exposed to a range of music and discussed the different emotions they experienced when listening to each piece.
Students then explored how different sounds in music can be expressed through lines, shapes and patterns. They created independent and collaborative artworks inspired by music.
Following this, students investigated artworks by Wassily Kandinsky. They discussed the vocal, body percussion and percussion instrument sounds that could be connected with the different lines, shapes and patterns they observed in the artworks. They worked collaboratively in small groups to compose a piece of music to accompany each artwork.
World Book Week is here, and at NISC and we've been diving headfirst into the enchanting world of stories! This year, our theme is "Reading is Magic," and it's been a week filled with wonder, imagination, and the sheer joy of books.
Action Learning Camps, or ALCs, are often cherished highlights of students' school years. Memories of playing team sports, roasting marshmallows, and sharing whispered conversations into the early hours of the morning leave lasting impressions. But ALCs are more than just fun—they're foundational experiences that support students’ growth in a number of ways.
We often associate gratitude with iconic moments, such as when our children are born healthy, we are offered a good job, a family member or pet survives an illness or operation, or when our children graduate from school. Events like these can be very moving and emotional, and sometimes even life changing. However, what if we made it a habit to include gratitude in our daily lives?
Lots of research points to a very common problem in student learning: Too much information!
Students can become overwhelmed and consequently processing and memory retention can become difficult. Not just for students with executive function challenges, or neurodiversity; for many neurotypical students too! Especially younger students. Feeling overwhelmed can also trigger stress and anxiety.
