ROBYN SASSEN
According to a media release, this year’s competition was fuelled by entries from 72 private, government, township and rural schools from nine provinces. In all, 562 projects were received from learners in grades 1 to 12.
Featuring themes Shape of My World; Exploring the Sciences in Everyday Life; Bringing to Life Your Favourite Historical Figure; Expression Through the Arts; and categories embracing all ages including one for the teachers, the sky was the limit for the projects created with apps and utilities like iLife, iMovie and GarageBand.
Michelle Lissoos, managing director of Think Ahead, organisers of the competition, and a division of Core Group said: “The Apple in Education competition gives learners and teachers the opportunity to showcase how Apple technology has enhanced their learning and teaching, and the difference it has made in their classrooms. Schools that use Apple technology already see teaching and learning in an entirely new way.”
While Parklands College distinguished itself with winners in several categories, including iTeacher of the year which went to Anthony Peters, winners from the Jewish community were: Redhill’s Liora Kaplan (grades 1-4) and Yeshiva College’s Liat Shear (grades 5-8) and Moran Katz (teacher) in the theme Shape of My World.
In the Sciences in Everyday Life theme, King David Victory Park’s Rachel Edelstein and Loren Kramer (grades 5-8) were honoured with their teacher, Yael Gordon, who was also acknowledged in the same age category in the theme Bringing to Life Your Favourite Figure where Tyra Parsons won.
King David Sandton came up trumps in the Expression Through the Arts category, where Reuven Kaplan (grades 1-4) and his teacher Nikki Heyman, won, and in the grades 9-12 category, King David Victory Park’s Gabriella Nutter and Loren page and their teacher Sue Heydenrych walked away with top merits.
