INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARY DAY 2016

It's here again and we’ll be taking part in the Skype Adventures and Bookmark Exchange Projects! This year's theme is:

Learn to Decode Your World!

This project involves matched schools making creative, homemade bookmarks to exchange with each other. It is a simple, fun way of sharing the joy and fun of books and libraries and of making new friends through school libraries worldwide.

We have been paired up with students from

Kendriya Vidyalaya Iiit Jhalwa from Uttar Pradesh, India,
Kwok Man School from the New Territories, Hong Kong,
Technical School Slavonski Brod from Slavonski Brod, Croatia &
Kiskunfélegyházi József A. Ált. Isk. Platán Utcai Tagintézménye in Hungary.

We will also connect with our partnered schools on Padlet, our school library blog, Edmodo and Skype as we make our bookmarks so that we can learn something about other cultures and different ways of life. So..

COME, CONNECT, CREATE!

International School Libraries Month is here again!

We all know that school libraries are really awesome places to find information when you need it, to check out the most exciting books, to discover how to use the newest, coolest apps anywhere and to connect with friends, new and old, in person or online. But this is just the start... even after you leave school, you'll still be able to use the skills you have learned in our school library to find and use information, in all kinds of formats, to do whatever you want.

The characters in our ISLM poster illustrate some of the media  we use in our library to share information - 

* Brittney Books,*  Lana Laptop, * Polly Poster, * Ivan iPod, * Tanya Tablet, * Molly Magazine & *Edward eReader and * Nelly Newspaper.

All this month, there will be book talks, read aloud sessions, displays and many other activities on each week. The library prefects will even be assisting as official helpers at the NALIS Fun Day on Sunday 27th October at the National Library bulding!

  

     

So don't forget to pop in and check out what's on @ Our Library!

No school today ... again!

So, by now you may have heard about the accident next door to our school, over the weekend. The wall collapsed and seriously damaged our electrical transformer. This meant that our school's entire electrical grid went down.

Mrs. Pounder, Mrs. Mohammed and the staff did their best to arrange to have it repaired as soon as possible, but it really depends on the technicians at TTEC. Still, the upper school, those year groups who are preparing for external examinations this year, were able to resume classes (with no lights, no air conditioning or Internet access!) yesterday.

Still, that's the really cool thing about being connected. On our Edmodo feed we  can see that people are still communicating, collaborating and creating. Work is still getting done. YAY! Get connected - it's a good thing! Keep checking back here, or here, or here for further updates about when full classes will resume.

LATE BREAKING NEWS - Classes will resume for everyone tomorrow, Thursday 26th January. See you then!