By Claire Dean clairestirlingpscoza Stirling Primary East London South africa Innovative Teacher TeachMeet The MaD Team Five G rade 46 students From an Eastern Cape G overnment School ID: 340774
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Making a Difference
By
Claire Dean
claire@stirlingps.co.za
Stirling Primary
East London
South africa
Innovative Teacher TeachMeetSlide2
The MaD
Team
Five
G
rade 4-6 students.From an Eastern Cape Government School.Marco, Phiwo, Sabriyah, Siliziwe and Mbasa. Entered their project into ThinkQuest’s International Competition 2012.Slide3
ThinkQuest Competition
Collaborated
with a disadvantaged
school, A. W. Barnes Primary,
to Make a Difference.The
MaD
Team
created a
website of
13 pages
for the
ThinkQuest
competition.
The Project was assessed on:
Critical
Thinking Skills
Communication Skills
Technology
Skills
Slide4
At the end of the project The
MaD
Team received
Letters from:
the principal, andlibrarian of A.W. Barnes Primary School.Slide5
A few quotations from the principal’s letter:
"
We would like to acknowledge your school's
generous donation of library books
to our school library.“" Our learners have very enthusiastically started to read and to take out these books." "The number of books in the school's library allows the learners to take the book home to read." “Our learners also appreciated the opportunity to visit your school and to
read to your young learners
."
"
Our learners have grown in confidence
since they have been able to communicate and to collaborate with fellow learners from Stirling Primary,"Slide6
A few quotations from the librarian’s letter:
"
Our school's learners feel so
privileged
to be involved in the MaD project.“"It is amazing to see what a huge impact for young, enthusiastic children can make in the lives of others." "This
project has opened doors
to, not only the leaners you met and worked with, but also to the other children in the school
.”
"
Our prefects
were given an opportunity
to interact
with children from another school,
gain confidence
in reading by reading to your grade 2 learners, doing book reports, interviewing other
children.” Slide7
More from the librarian’s
letter:
"They have taken these skills and used them at our school to
cultivate a love for reading
.”"We have also started giving learners the opportunity to read books to the rest of the school during assembly." "The books that you collected and donated to the school are stunning.!”“The children are so excited and they could not wait to start taking out the books at the library to go read them in class or at home.”"Our school's ThinkQuest involvement with you had a huge impact in the reading culture of our school
.”Slide8
Stirling Primary
A. W. Barnes
Has about 1100 students from Grade R to Grade 7.
Has approximately 9000 books in the library.
Has a budget to purchase new books every year.
Has about 1100 students from Grade R to Grade 7
.
Only
4500
books in the library
Has no
budget
.
Comparison between the two schools Slide9
What did the MaD
Team do?
M
aking
a Difference in the lives of the students of an under-privileged school by:Visiting them a few times.Promoting
Reading
Events.
Donating
books
.
Creating a website of the entire project.Slide10
First Meeting
The
MaD
Team met with the librarian of A. W. Barnes and her library prefects asking questions such as:" What do you know about National Library Week?" and "How we can help you?".
A.W. Barnes School is situated next to a rubbish dump site.
Is 10km from Stirling Primary.
Unfortunately no photographs taken during the visits can be published on the Partners in Learning website. It’s not possible to trace the A.W. Barnes former students as they have now moved on to a high school of their choice.Slide11
In preparation for the second visit
A
Reading
Tally
Sheet was prepared by Siliziwe andA Reading Survey created by Phiwo Slide12
Preparing for Surveys
Brainstorming questions.Slide13
Second visit
in front of the school bus
Siliziwe
(tally sheet expert),
Sabriyah (photographer),Marco (photographer),
Mbasa
(permission
form expert and refreshment provider)and
Phiwo
(reading survey expert
)Slide14
Replies from Siliziwe’s Tally Sheet
The A.W. Barnes’ library prefects interviewed
206 students
Most students read magazines, enjoy reading and think it is fun.The author Roald Dahl is the favourite author of 35,5% students interviewedReadathon Week: about three quarter
of the
students
have heard about
it.Slide15
Reading Survey – some questions and replies
Who is your favourite author and why?
a)Roald Dahl because he writes terrific books. b)Roald Dahl, his books are nice stories to read. c)Laurie Fredman she understands what she writes. d)Annie Bryant, she writes interesting books.
What do you enjoy about reading and why?
a)I enjoy reading because it builds up my vocabulary. b)I enjoy reading because it makes me clever and makes me find interesting things. c)The peaceness and the joy it brings to me. d)I enjoy reading because it memorises, feeds& freshens my mind.What kind of books do you like? a)Books that are interesting like Roald Dahl books. b)Roald Dahl books. c)Love stories. d)I like BSG books (Beacon Street Girls).”Slide16
Marketing the Project
“Tell
:
our
students, teachers and parents about our ThinkQuest project.Ask: for books to donate for A W Barnes Primary School's library.
Encourage
:
reading
Educate
:
students
from our school and those of A W Barnes about the special reading events in 2012
.”Slide17
Marketing continued
Mbasa
published an article in our
school’s own newsletter
, the Green Gossip.Siliziwe wrote an article that was published on the School Communicator for all parents to read.Slide18
Marketing – example of posterSlide19
Marketing – example of posterSlide20
Marketing – example of posterSlide21
Marketing – example of posterSlide22
Bookmarks
Creating, cutting and laminating the 60+ bookmarks designed in MS Publisher. Slide23
The MaD
Team organised Special Reading Events
1.
World
Book Day: 1 March 2012Theme: Read a book. Share
a
book
2.
World
Read Aloud Day
: 7 March
2012
3.
S.A
Library
W
eek
:17
March - 24 March 2012
Theme: Develop at your library
.Slide24
Carrying the boxes of books
On 14 March the
MaD
Team
attended an assembly at A.W. BarnesPresented their book reports Handed over the bookmarks Donated about 800 books that our school's students have donated. Slide25
At their assembly
“Handing over the boxes full of books!”Slide26
MaD
Team doing book reviews
at
the assembly.Slide27
Our Thoughts - a few quotations
Sabriyah's
Thoughts
“22
February 2012: Over the past four weeks I have learned many different things. I learned how to work together as a team for me that is very important as it is a life skill. I also learned how to be a leader. I learned that not a lot of people know about National Library week so
I am happy that I am teaching
teachers and students about National
Library
week. I
learned how to make bookmarks and posters
using Microsoft Office Publisher. Over the past four weeks I
learned
how to use a camera
. I am really happy in ThinkQuest
.” Slide28
Our Thoughts - a few quotations
Marco’s Journal
“22 February:
On
the six of February we went to A W Barnes and I was excited to meet the new prefects. Turns out they were all girls and I think that is not fair. I was the Photographer and I took over seventy photos and edited two of them. Our school is donating books because their library is smaller than a classroom. Were are trying to make a difference in their school we care about them.16 April 2012: I
learned how to work with girls as I am the only boy
in the team. I also learned how to work with a camera to take photos and
I learned how to scan a picture
on the computer. I
had to read a book and prepare book report
. This I had to
learn and say in front of A W Barnes students
. I
learned how to design a poster and bookmarks
. I had to
put in extra time
to complete my work
.”Slide29
Our Thoughts - a few quotations
Mbasa’s
thoughts
“06 March 2012: On the 6 of March, A W Barnes came with 7 prefects. They came to read to our Grade 2's and 3's. They had a great time reading to the Grade 2's and 3's.12 March 2012: My book for the book review is about The 12 Dancing Princesses. The book is about Rowena the witch, she poisoned the king so that the king could get weak. Rowena tried to control the palace but she couldn't. I think you should read this book because it is interesting, fun and enjoyable.16 April 2012: From the beginning
I learnt team work
, team work is an important life skill. I learnt how to use the scanner, camera and the
laminating machine.
We
had different roles
, mine was to take all the photos
.”Slide30
Our Thoughts - a few quotations
Siliziwe's
thoughts
“
22 February 2012: In the last few weeks, I created a few tally sheets. We handed those to A W Barnes. They completed the tally sheets and send to us. I then created a note for our school communicator, which I have put on ThinkQuest to explain that we need books to send to them. I am going to use the school scanner to scan the tally sheets.12 March 2012: This week we had to
prepare a book review
for Mrs Dean. The book is called Bambi. Bambi is a Walt Disney Classic story. Bambi is a new born prince. Bambi was learning about the different things in the forest. One day a man came in the forest and killed Bambi's mother. I chose this book because it looks interesting and it looks like you can learn something from it
.” Slide31
Our Thoughts - a few quotations
Phiwo's
thoughts:
“22
February 2012: Over the past four weeks we have worked on our bookmarks unfortunately I have not finished it, because I was working on my reading survey. My reading survey was to find out what people knew about reading. My fellow ThinkQuest friends worked on posters to say that we need books to be donated to A W Barnes. The last time we went to A W Barnes was on the 6th of February to meet the new library prefects and to give them The Reading Survey, The Reading Tally Sheet and The Permission slips.” 16 March 2012:
I have
learnt that a lot of schools are underprivileged
and do not have a lot of books for the children to read. I now do not take thing for granted. I have also
learnt reading is a very important thing in life.
”Slide32
Book Reports
A few weeks after the books were donated we
received
book
reports from the library prefects of A W Barnes Primary School. Slide33
Final Thank You' s
The Team wanted to
know how
they
helped A.W. Barnes’s library and school.They sent letters to the principal and librarian of this school asking: Please let us know “How our project made a difference to your school”.Slide34
ThinkQuest Competition – Good News
In March 2013 we received an email from ThinkQuest that
The
Team finished in the
top 10% of the competition. If the students were 18-22 years they would have been able to apply for an internship!