Great Meol's Primary in England - our twinning partner

We belong to an organisation called Afritwin and we have been partnered with a school in England - Great Meols Primary. We are in the process of sending them newsletters. Here is our Grade 1 newsletter

This is our Grade 2 newsletter

Our Grade 5 newsletter follows:

Our Winter Olympics project 2010

The Grade 6s participated in an online project about the Winter Olympics held in Canada earlier this year   (2010). 56 schools from around the world participated in the project and uploaded their information to a wiki set up by a teacher in Canada. The name of the wiki is 2010 Olympics, and it can be found at http://2010olympics.wikispaces.com/
To find Fish Hoek Primary's section, follow these instructions:

1. Open the wiki address namely http://2010olympics.wikispaces.com/

2. Click on Participating Schools in the navigation bar on the left.
http://2010olympics.wikispaces.com/Participating+Schools

3. Find South Africa/Fish Hoek Primary School and click on the link.
http://2010olympics.wikispaces.com/Fish+Hoek+Primary+School%2C+Fish+Hoek%2C+Cape+Town%2C+South+Africa

4. You will see our home page with all its information as well as the three links to the rest of our project.

All the Grade 6s participated but only the work of one class has been uploaded. The classes were each divided into seven groups for the project, and each group had a section of research to complete. Here is a photo of the class.



In the project our first page was called Winter Olympics History. In this section we researched the history of the Winter Olympics, created a quizz about the Winter Olympics and researched the sport competed in at the Winter Olympics.

The next section was called Sports of the Winter Olympics where we researched the three athletes that represented South Africa namely Peter Scott (Winter Olympics - Alpine skiing), Oliver Klass (Winter Olympics cross-country skiing) and Bruce Warren (Winter Paralympics - 5 alpine disciplines (Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super Combined, Super G and Downhill).

The third section of the project was called Countries of the Winter Olympics where we presented a quizz on South Africa. We also had fun exploring Big Huge Labs where we created mosaic photos.

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.