The awarenet projects of 2015 so far
The first half year of 2015 has been quite successful so far. After a
general introduction of the awarenet platform we have worked on two
long projects, attended the Science Festival and invited to our awarenet
Open Day as part of International Girls in ICT Day.
The schools I
decided to work with in 2015 was Khulitso Daniel SS, C.M Vellem HPS,
Ntaba Maria PS, Good Shepard PS working with Grade 7, 8 and 9. Lukas
worked from the Joza Youth Hub with Seventh Day Adventist School and
Archie Mbolekwa SS, Victoria Girls High School and the Upstart group in
the first term. Introductions included a general introduction to social
media and working with profile pages, friends network, multi-media.
The
first project we worked on for the term was the Science Project. The
theme we worked on was "Life after School", we worked on career choices.
We wrote Blogs, and added sections to the project. We later on divided
learners into groups of about 5 learners where each group had to design
their own poster with the topic “Life after School". Lots of posters
were designed with different ideas on what the learners thought “Life
after School” meant to them. A bit of judging was done on the posters
and three posters were chosen as the best ones and were later be
displayed at the "SciFest".
We
attended "SciFest" to promote awarenet and to tell people about our
project we worked on during the few weeks before "SciFest". Lots of
schools visited "SciFest". Victoria Girls HS was also there to promote
their school and the project they were working on. Our awarenet learners
also had the opportunity to attend "SciFest", namely Ntaba Maria PS,
Seventh Day Adventist School, Archie Mbolekwa SS and Upstart. The
overall winners of the poster competition had the opportunity to go to
the "SciFest" namely Ntaba Maria PS and Seventh Day Adventist School.
The learners enjoyed the atmosphere and they had fun walking around and
looking through all the different activities.
In
the second school term we started with the Health and Fitness Project.
Learners had the opportunity to play sport, get fit and learn more about
team sport. The learners played different sports like soccer, netball
adding some fitness exercises for general strength. We had motivational
speakers who came to the schools and gave motivational talks to the
learners about motivation in sport. Rooi Rikhotso talked about how to
keep motivated in sport while still focusing on academics, not to get
involved in wrong doings and wrong friends, he shared his experiences
with the Ntaba Learners. Seventh Day Adventist School and Good Shepard
PS had the opportunity to listen to Thandoxolo Royi talking about his
sport, Karate. Chris Tobela motivated C.M Vellem HPS with his Soccer
Coaching skills giving them advice how to achieve in Soccer. Blogs were
written about the motivational talks.
We used the awarenet forum to discuss sporting habits and eating habits. Learners also wrote blogs
about good and bad eating habits. We still continued to play lots of
sports getting fit for our Health & Fitness Day held close to Youth
Day. Our final big day in the health and fitness was held on the 12 June
2015. We played soccer dividing in 5 member teams. The overall winners
in the soccer tournament was C.M Vellem HPS. Being the winners of the
tournament they each received a water bottle sponsored by Run/Walk for
Life. The Mr. and Miss. Fitness was up next six boys and six girls
partaking in this event. They had to do sit ups, push ups and star jumps
for 45sec. The persons with the most points would be the overall
winners. Zezuthu Fikani of the S.D.A School and Thanduxolo Rooi of
Nombulelo P.S were the overall winners. They each received a sponsored
School Stationary (rulers, rubber, pencil cases and pens) from Albany
business machines.
We
were also entertained by a Karate demonstration by the Joza Karate
Club. It was a great fun day out learners has fun, the Fitness project
was a great. Thank you to all who contributed to our sports day,
Run/Walk for Life a R500 donation towards food and water bottles, Albany
Business Machines for donating School Stationary and Madhatters for a
cake.
Next term we will start our Peace Day music Project a Project that’s a very successful one the last 2 years.
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