Last week was World Digital Citizenship Week. We celebrated in the Primary School by further empowering our pupils to become excellent digital citizens! Our Grade 1-2 pupils created Digital Royalty Crowns, promising to be safe, respectful, and responsible online. They chose powerful words such as ‘Balance’, ‘Safety’, ‘Care’, ‘Brave’, ‘Kind’, and ‘Think’, to guide their…
Last week, our Grade 4-6s opened their Computer lessons up to their parents to come visit and see how their lessons had been integrated with their IBL. The Grade 4s got to show their parents how they had used coding to turn their Micro:bits into livestock counting devices. After adding a few finishing touches to…
Digital Literacy and Coding and Robotics create such a great platform for pupils to express their creativity, exercise their problem-solving skills, collaborate, and learn more about the world, all through the use of technology. The focus this year was to try and integrate what was happening in the Computer Lab, with what the students were learning…
Social Media apps are being used more frequently by pre-teens. Many of our own Primary School students admitted to using them as a place to stay in touch with their friends and express their individuality. Most parents are aware of the well-documented dangers that come with unfiltered access to these applications, however, there are other…
An incredible well done to Cannons Creek Grade 11 pupil, Thomas Kabalin, who placed 2nd at the recent Computer Applications Olympiad. The first two rounds of the Applications Olympiad were written at entrants’ schools, with only 13 pupils reaching the final round which took place in-person in Pretoria. According to the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa…
The Grade 9s have been exploring the foundational concepts of Computer Programming. This week, we explored conditional statements which allows us to manipulate a programme so that the computer responds to changing conditions. They wrote algorithms, using the Microsoft software ‘MakeCode’, to programme their microbit to conduct three different scenarios – 1. Choose a random…
Our Grade 5s recently completed the Code4Kids ‘My Tribute Project’. Pupils chose a woman who inspires them and coded an HTML Tribute Webpage. Pupils enjoyed reflecting on the amazing female figures who have shaped our lives, while learning the basics of website design and coding. Some of the women who were researched were JK Rowling…
Grade 10 CAT Students had fun taking two computers apart to identify hardware components. A computer is made up of different components like the motherboard, processor, display, RAM, etc. Components identified and discussed: ∙ Motherboard – Heart of the Computer. Everything sits on/connects to motherboard ∙ CPU – Central Processing unit ∙ RAM – Random…
