Firstly, a special thank you to those parents who have sent in photos of their children reading. I’d love to receive more for a Library display so if you haven’t had the chance, please email me at nicole_atkins@aishk.edu.hk Our Reading Challenge is off to a flying start with some students really challenging themselves with book selection and reading more frequently, this is […Read more]
A special welcome back to Term 3 from all the Library Staff. This term is very significant for us as we celebrate Book Week in Week 6! As mentioned previously, the theme this year is: A reminder that on Friday 31 August Reception-Year 6 students may dress as their favourite book character or perhaps as something related to this year’s […Read more]
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
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