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International School Library Month 2010

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Pakistan

From Ms Farhat Jabeen, Librarian, Happy Home School
For the seventh consecutive year we are celebrating the International School Library Day. The Heads, teachers and students look forward to this event enthusiastically.
Brief outline of the ISLM activity:

  • As part of library enhancement plan a workshop on ‘Planning Library Activities for the Students’ was conducted by Ms. Farhat Jabeen for the librarians of other HHS campuses in the month of August 2010.
  • Book jackets were designed by grades V to X in the beginning of October.
  • Urdu Story Writing Competition was held between grades IV to X in the first half of October. After the display of these stories on October 30, 2010. The stories will be distributed to the children at ‘The Garage School’, an under privileged school run by an NGO.
  • Grades III to X designed book marks in the first week of October.
  • All grades decorated the bulletin boards on the theme of the International School Library Month.
  • Assembly presentations will be held on the topic of ‘Library, Books, Knowledge is Power’ in the later half of the month of October.
  • Story telling session will be held for grades III and IV on October 21, 2010.
  • Story writing session will be held for grades VI and VII on October 26, 2010
  • Secondary Section students will perform a skit, ‘Sherlock Holmes’ on October 26, 2010.
  • Book Fair, at the school’s outer ground will be held on October 28th and 30th, 2010.
  • Book Fair of old books brought by the students, at the school’s inner ground will be on October 28th and 30th, 2010. The funds raised through this Book Fair will be given to the children of people displaced from their homes due to the floods.
  • Display of student’s work will be on October 30, 2010.
  • To promote awareness of library during the Library Month we will arrange some Library Skills Development based activities which are as follows: Grade III: Students to view and learn from the power point presentation ‘Treasure in the Library’. Grade IV: Fun with Contents of the Books. Grade V: Dictionary Game. Grade VI: Finding fiction and non fiction books. Grade VII: To be briefed about ‘Parts of Books’. Grade VIII: How to refer to an Encyclopedia.
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Pakistan

From Sadaf Shahid, Librarian, Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karachi
Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karachi (AKHSS, K) is a unit of Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan (AKESP) which is the entity of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
The well spring of our ethos and our global perspective is our association with Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan.AKES, P, envisions to be a “Dynamic learning organization achieving excellence” with the core purpose of “Reaching out to inspire better lives.”
 
AKHSS, K has a tradition to celebrate international events in order to promote awareness and involvement of students in various dimensions of learning and development.
In connection to this, International School Library Day (ISLD) has been planned to celebrate on 25th October 2010 by the library society.
 
What is Library Society?
Library Society is a group of students at AKHSS, K working together with an objective to attract students towards library. Library Society promotes the importance of Library and helps Library Staff in conducting such programs that accomplish this objective.
Several activities were conducted during our celebration of ISLD.

  • Inaugural Ceremony
  • Reading Wizard
  • Spelling Bee

Inaugural Ceremony:
 
The Principal of Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karachi lit the candle as a symbol of wisdom, warmth and glow of life long learning. Cards were given to all the participants to write a message for the school community which was later displayed on the notice board.
 
Reading Wizard

This activity was conducted in the library with the registered students.  Students were registered in pairs.  The registration was based on first come first serve basis and 15 pairs of students from each shift participated in the activity.

Unknown reading passage was given to the students along with chart papers. Within 1 hour and a half, each pair read the text, wrote a review of maximum 500 words and prepared a poster on the theme presented in the passage. This activity motivated students to imagine and depict their ideas in the form of a poster. Also it increased teamwork in the participants.

The best pair of all the fifteen was declared winner on the basis of their pictorial presentation and the review. Each shift had its own winning pair who was awarded with a certificate of achievement.

Spelling Bee:

Spelling bee is an activity that encourages students to learn and correct more and more of their spelling mistakes. At AKHSS, K there is a tradition to organize activities for the growth of students’ learning. Therefore, Library Society conducted the “Spelling Bee Contest” as an activity in the ISLD.

The competition was conducted in three rounds. In the first round, the students spelled two words pronounced by the announcer. After the first round 4 pairs of students were eliminated and the rest competed in second round. In second round, a hint was provided to the students. They had to guess the word and then spell it, if the word was spelt correctly the pair was awarded 3 points and if it was spelt wrong, they were given a negative 1. Similarly, every pair was asked 4 words; the pairs with highest scores of at least 3 correct spelling eventually moved to the next round. In the third round, two teams gave 5 words to each other for spelling. Highest scorer of that round was announced the winning pair.

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Portugal

From Manuela Maria Sá Cachada Baptista, Teacher Librarian, Biblioteca Escolar da Escola Básica de Rio Tinto nº2 
ISLM activity: During the International School Library Month our school library wants to celebrate by promoting the following activities:

  • Participation in the IASL Boomarks Project with a group of 5th graders from class 5º G, age-ranges 10-11 years old and a group of students with special needs, whose are ranges between 10 to 15 years old.
  • Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic – writer Maria José Meireles will be visiting our school to present her book  5 de Outubro: Viva a República.
  • Celebration of the International School Library Day (25th October).
  • Visit to the school library of all the 5th grade classes in order to develop library skills.
  • Sending information to the local press.

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portugalSpecial Needs students participate in the ISLM Bookmark project 2010. The bookmarks, which are made in acrylic are pieces of a puzzle where the library is presented as a rainbow and at the end of the rainbow there's the pot of gold, which is the reward for using the school library. Several kinds of users are represented in the bookmarks, not only because they are from different races but also because some of them have some kind of disability.

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Contribution from 5th graders from class 5º G - age range 10 to 11 years.

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From Alice Santos, Teacher Librarian, Biblioteca da Escola Secundária José Afonso.
During the International School Library Month our school library promoted the following activities:

  • A group of 12th graders from class 12º E, age-ranges 16-17 years old produced bookmarks under the theme of interculturality and celebrating the International School Library Month;
  • Poetry and Music Concert by 9th grades from theater classes;
  • Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic – exhibition and guided tours;
  • Workshop in the school library of all the 7th graders in order to develop literacy skills (“School Library Discovery”).

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From Biblioteca Escolar, Portugal, Fátima Costa, Teacher-Librarian in Escola Secundária c/3º CEB Dr. Bernardino Machado -
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To celebrate The International School Library Month our school organized several activities. Here you can find a brief presentation:
Bookmarks Project : our students wrote some phrases and translated other ones about libraries to make the bookmarks Celebration of International School Library Day.

Exposition: - Poems about libraries; - Exposition about The International School Library Month

“Reading hour” – students (12-18 years old) and teachers invited some parents to participate in this talk show about their readings from the books they chose to read among October 2010. The students were encouraged to learn and explore books and develop reading habits. They won some gifts and bookmarks.

“Take Part” – students of the professional courses have invited the school community to make part of their story board and take a picture with them.

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Last updated 21 December 2010 (KSB)