Butterworth High School
DEEP gives us a chance to be technologically informed and opens new doors for us, giving us a chance to be who and what we want to be. There is a whole world of information on the net and the computer makes this information easily accessible. Just the click of a button and one can visit a Nature Reserve and see the animals, study their habitat and also find the latest information. Research and project work will definitely be more meaningful for all of us now.
We learned more about energy - particularly about Solar Energy when we went on the field trip to a local primary school and also got a chance to meet the girls from Empumalanga Primary School. I loved the part when we got to use the cameras.
Thanks to our teachers and the DEEP project we are learning keyboard skills and typing so that even those with bad handwriting will not have to worry! Drawing and painting on the computer is also lots of fun. We learn how to be creative kids. Working on the scanner is lots of fun and very exciting...
DEEP has opened up an exciting avenue for us, we don't have to be left behind even though we live in a disadvantaged area'.
(Extract from a pupils presentation about DEEP to school visitors)
Butterworth High School is located in Butterworth, one of the principal towns of the Eastern Cape Province - an urban pocket in a largely rural landscape. The school has 870 students (480: female; male: 390) and 28 teachers (5 male and 23 female); its catchment area serves mostly families of a low socio-economic status. Formerly a Model C school, it has some resources including a small suite of desktop computers sponsored by Schoolnet, unused prior to the DEEP project. Butterworth High operates as a lead cluster school, supporting four other rural, highly disadvantaged DEEP schools.
Five eleven-year old pupils researched the facts that informed the creation of this imaginative acrostic poem Rhinoceros, using the Enchanted Learning' web site. The pupils worked collaboratively to create the poem and presented it to fellow classmates in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.
Download Rhinoceros (ppt 123kb)
