UAE | Education
Pupils offer solutions to real-life problems
A walk through a grade five classroom at Raha International School shows that 10-year-olds can offer a fresh perspective to real-life problems.
- By Marten Youssef, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:28 April 10, 2008
- Image Credit: Marten Youssef/Gulf News
- Pieterjan Seurynck will be travelling to China with his family and his presentation provides insight into the problem of pollution in the country.
Abu Dhabi: A walk through a grade five classroom at Raha International School shows that 10-year-olds can offer a fresh perspective to real-life problems.
The pupils dressed in their uniforms stand next to their exhibition boards. "Save the orphans of Bosnia," "End greenhouse gases," "Ban public smoking," are some of the project headlines.
The two-day exhibition is part of Raha International School's International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme. It aims to empower pupils by helping them find solutions to real-life problems.
"All we really have to do is guide them," says Australian teacher Russel Youle. "We don't want to intervene and tell them this is a good or a bad idea ... we try to help them develop ideas they already have," explains Youle.
"We have students who come from all over the world. They bring to the class issues they are passionate about," Youle adds.
Ten-year-old Pieterjan Seurynck will be travelling to China with his family soon so he created a project to help create awareness about pollution in China.
With a PowerPoint presentation running in the background Pieterjan says, "China will have to change its outdated factories from the 20th century and develop new ones."
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