Our school joins the Thinkquest portal

The Grade 4s, 5s, 6s and 7s at our school have joined the wonderful, safe Thinkquest portal where they will each have their own little website to use for school projects. Oracle Education, the software company that has created Thinkquest is the second biggest in the world (second only to Microsoft). We are hoping to join in some projects with schools in other parts of the country and the world using this portal. If you go to http://www.thinkquest.com you can find out about Thinkquest and the amazing competition they hold every year. Last year they added a projects competition to their list. The children had to beplaced in groups of six to enter projects in the competition. Last year a primary school from East London in South Africa who combined with a primary school in Port Elizabeth won the world title with their project called 'Tour of a Lifetime'. Two teachers and six students travelled to San Franciso for a week with six parents (one parent belonging to each child). The six children and the two teachers each won an Apple laptop and lots of money for the chool. We are hoping to enter teams from Fish Hoek Primary this year!

Last Saturday I presented a Thinkquest workshop to teachers from schools around Cape Town who want to enter the competition this year! One teacher even flew all the way from Port Elizabeth to attend the workshop. Here is a crazy pic of some of us at the workshop.