Spicewood Elementary School Spicewood’s Newest NextGen Digital Classrooms
Students in Ms. Bliven's and Ms. Keating's kindergarten classrooms met their iPad buddies this week and explored sketching with Paper by 53, and used Chatterpix to describe the physical properties of rocks they were examining earlier that day. Students in these newest...
Being an IB PYP Parent
Parents are vital to the success of their child's educational experience. As a parent at a PYP school, we consider everyone at Spicewood (staff, teachers, parents, students) to be part of our community of learners, continuously growing and working together to become...
Cultivating a Growth Mindset
With our Fall Student Led Conferences coming up, PYP students are reflecting on themselves as learners and setting goals (using the Learner Profile as their guide) for the 2016-2017 school year. So how do we help support students and provide them with a framework to...
Celebrations at Spicewood
We're following up last week's blog post with a quick share out of the amazing #PeaceDay actions that took place on our campus. Our teachers brainstormed ideas with their students, tweeted actions and spread an overall message of peace on our campus through posters,...
International Day of Peace
What is a PYP school? To put it simply, it strives to develop an internationally minded person. As a PYP school, Spicewood "aspires to be a community of caring, global-minded thinkers" (our school's vision) by providing students with a variety of learning experiences...
Growing the Whole Child
At the heart of all IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP) lies the Learner Profile. You'll hear our classroom teachers using the attributes to give feedback to students, our school counselor, Mrs. Hougham, embedding them into her lessons, and even students using the same...
Establishing a Community of Learners
As teachers and students are getting to know each other at the start of the school year, they are primarily working to set up systems and structures with their new community of learners. The unit of inquiry, Who We Are, is a natural start of the year for most grade...