Author Sarah Brennan’s Writing Competition At the end of last term, four students from AISHK entered THE DASHING DOG STORY COMPETITION! Congratulations to Jonas Tai-4M, Georgia Barnes-5P, Audrey Kwok-6B and Scarlet Knowling-6R on taking the opportunity to enter the competition and give it a go! The entries can be seen on Sarah’s Blog https://sarahbrennanblog.com/clever-competitions/ Keep an eye on Sarah’s blog, […Read more]
The Secondary Library will be closed after school next week due to the Secondary Activity Week. This means that Library Assistants will close the library at 4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 4:00pm on Friday during this time. The Primary Library will be open as per usual. Primary parents are kindly reminded that the Primary Library usually closes daily at 4:00pm […Read more]
Greetings from the Library. It has been lovely to welcome the students back after Chinese New Year and see the Library alive with the children reading books and participating in lessons. In Week 5, we were fortunate enough to have a visit from the wonderful author, Sarah Brennan. Sarah shared with us her latest book in the Chinese Calendar Tales […Read more]
Author Visit On our first day back after Chinese New Year, we are very pleased to announce we will welcome the wonderful author Sarah Brennan to the Primary Library. Sarah will be sharing her latest book in The Chinese Calendar Tales, ‘The Tale of Desmond Dog’ with students from Prep to Year 6. Students will receive an order form on […Read more]
This week, we held our last library lessons for the term and we completed them with some lovely kindness activities. Our AISHK Kindness Quilt is now almost complete and the students in Prep-Year 2 have been delighted to receive the Kindness Calendars made during library lessons by the Primary Students. We also had a wonderful impromptu buddy reading session with […Read more]
This week in the library, we have been continuing with our kindness theme. It has been wonderful to see a range of students, both in the Primary and Secondary Divisions, sharing their experiences with kindness on our display board outside the library. Nicole Atkins | Primary Teacher Librarian
This term we have a focus on kindness in our library lessons. In our classes, we will be reading ‘We’re All Wonders’ by R.J Palacio. This is a picture book based on Palacio’s well-known novel, ‘Wonder’ which has also been made into a movie. It has been lovely to see the boys and girls becoming more aware of how random […Read more]
What a fabulous week we had last week celebrating Book Week. The students were involved in a variety of activities to celebrate. Prep and Year 1 focussed on the text ‘Chip’ written and illustrated by Kylie Howarth. Prep enjoyed icing and then eating delicious seagull biscuits and Year 1 got to eat yummy hot chips just like Chip the seagull […Read more]
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