Congratulations to our iStore Excellence in Education Winners! We are so proud of Grade 4 pupils Katie Roets and Xia Walker who won first place in the Grades 4–7 Curriculum Excellence category, announced last night at the final awards ceremony at the iStore Headquarters in Sandton, Johannesburg. Their project was one of 225 entries from…
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…
At Cannons, we believe in developing and empowering our staff, and exposing them to trends and new teaching techniques – for the betterment of our staff, but also our pupils. Five of our staff across the Primary School and High School (Mrs Oliphant absent from photo) attended the InnovateEDU 2024 Conference on 17 and 18…
The pupils are not the only ones who get to have fun with the coding and robotics equipment at Cannons…. Last Thursday, staff development was devoted to ‘uplifting’ our teachers with drone pilot training. At Cannons Creek we are proud to have partnered with Inspire Africa to create Inquiry-based learning projects for our Grade 8 and 9…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a drone… well, Cannons Creek pupils flying drones! The Grade 8s and 9s all had a chance to fly the Tello drones from their Chromebooks for the first time this week. With the unmistakable ‘mosquito’ buzzing sound in the background, many other sounds of laughter,…
An incredible well done to the Cannons Creek Grade 4s who entered the AfriCAN Coding Challenge 2022, with their two teams entered placing in the top three finalists. In the first round they competed against other schools and more than 1000 entries from schools throughout South Africa. The theme was ‘Protecting Life Together’ and each…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work, play and interact with each other. Cannons Creek Independent School recently hosted local EdTech startup company, Mindjoy. Grade 6-9 pupils were fortunate enough to be afforded the opportunity to participate in the “Get Creative with Artificial Intelligence (AI)” Hackathon. We interact with AI every day in…
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…
On Thursday 26 May, Cannons Creek High School entered its very first in-person Inspire Drone League, hosted by Inspire Africa. This event was held at Eversdal Primary, and the Cannons Creek team (Robert Kightley, Rebecca White, Kendra Gladwin, Grace Wilkins, and Juan Coetzee) competed against the host school, Curro Durbanville, and Curro Foreshore. Each pupil’s individual time,…
