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,…
It is a well-known fact that the job market is evolving at an exponential rate along with the adoption of new technologies, yet our education system has not been so agile and is slower to change. For the most part, pupils continue to learn the same staple subjects that have been around for decades and are…
The excitement was palpable this morning – our Grade 6s were allowed to use their Chromebooks for the first time in the classroom! Our pupils are now putting into practice the skills they’ve learnt about Digital Citizenship where they need to be digitally responsible and manage themselves online. Thank you to our IT Integrator Mrs…
The driving question for the Grade 6 IBL project this term is ‘How far can we explore’? The Grade 6s were tasked with programming a rover to navigate the unfamiliar terrain of a new planet. They constructed an obstacle course full of hills, dips and turns and coded their robots to successfully complete the course,…
