Elanora Heights Primary School

ELANORA HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL

Internet Projects we are or have been involved in.
1999 Projects	1998 Projects	1997 Projects	1996 Projects

Projects our school organised or participated in during 1996 :-

Fisheries - Iceland
compared with elsewhere

Fun places to go in
and around Sydney

from Canada

Playtime at our school
inspired by a picture of
some girls in the Ukraine. Maybe other children will like to see how we play.

Virtual Tour of the Black Sea Nations.
This is where we saw the picture of the girls playing in the Ukraine. They were jumping over an elastic loop the same way as we do here.

Being global reporters

for the Scholastic Network
whose headquarters are in New York, USA

The Noon Project
- run from Illinois, USA

Our pictures
for Winchelsea School, U.K.

Australian animals
for Glencoe School,
Portland, Oregon, USA.

Ships of the Future
Organised by our friends in Sweden.

Projects our school organised or participated in during 1997 :-

International Trees and Forests Project
Organised by our school. More than 70 schools around the world reporting on a tree or a forest near them.

Global Weather
Children in Denmark
comparing weather
around the Globe on February 17th 1997

Coastal Survey Project
Our school co-operated with schools in Europe. We surveyed our local Narrabeen Beach.

Endangered Australian Wildlife		Cultural Exchange with Japan
	We are participating in the Endangered Animals of the World Project being run by two teachers in USA and Netherlands.	Tomizu Kindergarten in Japan and kindergarten classes at our school are sharing experiences.

Cultural Exchange with Italy
Students in Italy are sharing
experiences with our students.

Chip the Computer
comes to Sydney from
Mayfair, Philadelphia.

Projects our school organised or participated in during 1998 :-

Cultural Exchange
Tomizu Kindergarten in Japan and our 1998 kindergarten classes are continuing the sharing of experiences begun in 1997.

Flat Stanley is travelling around New South Wales, Australia

We are working with schools in Quambone and Mt Isa to compare the Macquarie Marshes,NSW, with inland Queenlsand.

Our children are working with a school in Alaska, another in Denmark (who studied Greenland) and the Arnie in Antarctica Project - researching cold climate ecosystems.

Insects
We have studied Australian insects and are comparing them with others in the world via the Insects Project run from California.

Playground Games
We have prepared pages about our Playground games for the Montage Project so we can share this with children in the UK

Progressive Story Project
Children from Hornbæk School in Denmark set out to solve a mystery disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle. They themselves have disappeared and children from other countries are trying to find them.

International Story Project
Children from around the world are writing stories which give a glimpse of life in their own country.

Friendship with Belgium
One of our pupils is representing Australia in VTI-Gullegem's endeavour to gain information from 35 different countries.

South African students help us
study Africa.
It has been wonderful to have email contact with students on the spot to help our 3rd graders learn about African animals and life in Africa.

Sadako and 1000 cranes
Our school is part of the Peace Network and folded 1000 cranes as part of our Trees and Forests Project to create a Wishing Tree.

Oildoll Project
Mrs Lita Cena of Leduc, Alberta, Canada visited our school and introduced two oildolls. Leduc is famous for its large oilfield.

Polygon Project
Yuge Elementary School in Japan, Paengaroa School in New Zealand, and our school are working together to create this non-verbal communication project involving many other schools around the world.

Our Town
Our friends in Hornbæk School in Denmark entered the European Think Quest competition where they needed to describe their home town. We created a site about Elanora Heights as a link to their project.

Projects our school organised or participated in during 1999 :-

Eht Labolg Yrots Ysgol Llanddulas in Wales asked us to join them in writing an International Story - Backwards. Our students wrote the second to last chapter of this exciting story - but at this stage only the last one had been written.	International Grandfriends Project for the 1999 International Year of Older People Children from 1st Grade to 5th Grade at our school have written stories and drawn pictures or scanned photos about their relationships with their Grandparents and Grandfriends.
Pitter Patter Project This project focuses on the onomatopoetic words in various languages of the world. Our children are making animations for this project.	Exploring the Street Children are comparing items from their streets with those in other countries. We have contributed some photos.
Children and Nature Our children are making animations from nature pictures to contribute to this International Nature Project.	Holidays and Festivals Our 2D and 4R students are collecting information and writing reports about Australian holidays and festivals to contribute to the International collection of Holiday and Festival reports.