The Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition - Pan African finals in Mauritius, September 2009

This was the second round of the Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition in 2009. The three South African winners joined up with the rest of Pan Africa's winners for a week in Mauritius. I am glad to report that in Mauritius I was awarded a winning place and will be representing South Africa and, in fact, AFRICA, at the World Finals in Brazil! Maybe this is all just a wonderful dream….
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KTV rewards Gr4&5B's Market Day efforts

Today there was great excitement at school because our national children's television programme KTV sent their presenters to our school to present a big cheque to the school. Cailom won nationally with her seaweed vuvuzelas.

Our Country voice-thread project

We are happy to say that we have competed the first part of our Country Voice-thread project which we are doing with Miss Ale in Argentina and hopefully some other countries too. Would you like to join us? Please note how some of Miss Ale's students have commented on a couple of our slides. Thank you Miss Ale!

This voice-thread can also be viewed in full screen at the following link:
http://voicethread.com/#u445145.b606410.i3231498

Grade 4&5B shows care to the community

Grade 4&5B donated some of their individual earnings from KTV Market Day to the Sunflower Fund, and handed over their money gift in the classroom today. The representatives from the fund explained about the work of the Sunflower Fund and handed out bandanas to the class in preparation for Bandana Day. “The Sunflower Fund aims to educate and recruit a viable source of well-informed potential bone marrow stem cell donors who are ethnically diverse, in an effort to save the lives of those needing a transplant when suffering from life-threatening blood disorders.” (Taken from their website)

Grade 4&5B wins Cape Town KTV Market Day award!

We are very proud of or Grade 4&5Bs. On Saturday 5 September twenty children from our school, mainly from Grade 4&5B entered the KTV (Kids TV) Market Day competition at one of the big malls in Cape Town. They had already submitted business plans to the organizers explaining what they planned to sell and how they had made their products, and were accepted to participate based on these business plans. The organizers were very impressed with their creative organization and selling skills. Cailom won R10,000 for her innovative product - Vuvuzelas from seaweed. She gets R6000 and the school gets R4000. Danvan and Gaiwhe won first prize for their product - Knick Knack Knockers and each received goodie bags from KTV. Geocro and her partner from another class won prizes in the talent show. Mrs B received a R5000 award for the best teacher since her students achieved so many prizes. Well done class! We have just heard that Cailom has won the national KTV award for her innovative product, and the school gets R25,000. KTV is coming to film the class and the school next week!