We can proudly announce that the second annual awarenet Peace Day Concert took place and was a huge success. Some people might complain now that Peace Day is on the 21st and not on the 18th, but to keep the peace and to make people happy, we decided that the 18th had to be the Read more about The 2nd awarenet Peace Day Concert[…]
The Village Scribe Association has recently welcomed a new school to the awarenet network: Alexandria High School in the Eastern Cape. Alexandria HS is a rural high school with a long history and excellent academic record, and a driven and dedicated staff. Thanks to a grant from First Rand Bank, the school has recently set Read more about Alexandria High School in Eastern Cape now also part of awarenet network[…]
The awarenet music sessions that will lead to the Peace Concert have started in Grahamstown. On their first session, learners were introduced to rap and HipHop music and also got a chance to rap themselves if there dared. At CM Vellem Higher Primary School, Apiwhe Solani was brave enough to get Read more about First Raps at Grahamstown’s awarenet schools[…]
This week was the first week of our music and peace project on awarenet which will lead to the Peace Concert on Peace Day in September 2013. Terri-Lynn Penney, the awarenet coordinator in Grahamstown, accepted the participation of 5 schools, namely CM Vellem Higher Primary School, Good Shepherd Primary School, Mary Waters High School, Nathaniel Read more about The awarenet music and peace project 2013 has started![…]
An email from a teacher has reached my inbox last week. It was written by Nompumelelo Frans of CM Vellem Higher Primary School in Grahamstown. The VSA works with the school for more than 2 years. It is one of he most ambitious and organised schools in our network. “Dear Anna, I asked for your Read more about An Invitation to all Teachers of the Eastern Cape to join the awarenet Community![…]
Our newest school joined the awarenet network last week: Alexandria High School in Alexandria in the rural Eastern Cape. This is a very exciting new development as we have installed an awarenet server at the school, which will be remotely managed. We can load content from the Internet, following requests from teachers and more. If Read more about awarenet in Alexandria (Eastern Cape)[…]
As one of their assignments, Rhodes Journalism & Media Studies students had to do interviews in the “civic mapping” part of the course. Amber Davies, one of the students, interviewed Lindokuhle Jawa (14, photo) from CM Vellem Higher Primary School. CMV School has adopted the awarenet programme for more than two years. Here are the Read more about Interview Highlights of awarenet Learner by Rhodes University Student[…]
This year, the VSA organised its first awarenet Open Day to present the programme to the community and to attract more teachers from new schools to take part in the programme. Viv Quin organised the event and decided that CM Vellem Higher Primary School would be a good example due to their long participation and Read more about Successful awarenet Open Day[…]
In association with the British Council and the Department of Basic Education, we are running an awarenet project at VG High School to generate language learning materials for rural and disadvantaged schools in South Africa. A LifePlayer is a portable, wind up and solar powered radio and MP3 player, designed for use in underdeveloped countries Read more about What have the awarenet learners done with the LifePlayer?[…]
We proudly announce that awarenet will be presented to the public at SciFest for the second time. The Science Festival in Grahamstown starts today and is ends next week on the 19/03/13 – plenty of time to have a look at the learning network, to login and explore the features and content. You will also Read more about VSA presents awarenet at SciFest along with the British Councel’s Life Player[…]