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Peggy Dodin

Reading Week @ Praslin Secondary

Reading Week - REVIEW

Monday 6^th April 2015

‘All for Reading’

1.       Special Assembly

-          National Anthem and Prayers

-          Welcoming by M.C (announce the program of the day)

-          Speech by Eustacia Lafortune (Launching of reading week and sponsored reading)

-          Presentation of books by Eustacia (to be accepted by Ms Christine).

-          Speech/ info’s by Mr Michael Antione (H/T)

2.       Opening of exhibition (Ms Lyra’s Room).

Eustacia/ Mr Michael Antoine

3.       Library Activities.

-Demonstration of reading activities (care of books).

- Bookmarks

4.       Book Review (English Class)

7^th April 2015

1.       Reading Session (Ms Lyra’s class)

2.       Use of internet browsing in reading

Week 6^th – 10^th April 2015

The week began with a special assembly whereby Ms EustaciaLafortune, participant in the Miss Seychelles Island contest, delivered her speech then launched the week and sponsored reading. It is to be noted that Ms Lafortune was one of our past student and that her Miss Seychelles Island project is based on reading.

Then, also during the assembly Ms Eustacia made a presentation of about 50 books to the school library sponsored by Abhaye Valabji. The books were accepted by Mrs Christine Chetty, our school librarian.

We then invited Mr Michael Antoine to deliver his speech to the assembly.

After the assembly, we proceeded with the opening of an exhibition in the SEN room. Ms Eustacia and Mr Antoine had the honour of opening the exhibition. The exhibition was all about reading and the apparatus were all produced by students during their English and French classes. There were also some leaflets and posters donated by Ms Lafortune.

During the 6^th period Ms Lafortune joined Ms Christine in the library for some activities with the S2B1 students. Students were demonstrated how to care for books and also had the opportunity to create some bookmarks. The activities were very much appreciated by the students.

After that, Ms Lafortune had the opportunity to assist a class where the teacher was conducting a session about book review.

On the 2^nd day (7^th April) there was a session on’Internet Browsing’ to demonstrate to students how to look/download books from the internet. The session which was originally to be conducted by Mr Francois Henri, was conducted by Ms Uma Subramanian since Mr Francois was on compassionate leave due to the loss of his wife the day before. We were supposed to have a session with a special group from Ms Lyra’sEnglish class but it was not done due to the fact that a group of teachers (DHT, Librarians, HOD language,SENCO) had to attend the official launching of the reading week at ESPACE onMahe.

Also during the week, language teachers organised activities with their classes to show to students the importance and ‘fun’ of reading. The activities varied from storytelling, quiz, poems etc...

To mark the end of this week, we attended an afternoon of activities at the National Library(GrandAnsePraslin) with a group of students. There, all schools on Praslin were represented; the BSA primary, G.A primary and Praslin Secondary.

The activities began by a speech from Mrs Irma Pool, the head librarian. Then we hada poem to show the evolution of reading ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’, by two secondary students.

It was followed by storytelling by Baie Ste Anne primary school. We then had a quizinvolving two schools : the BSA and the S1 of Praslin Secondary, whereby the Praslin secondary school came out victorious. It has to be noted that both schools demonstrated a good knowledge of a variety of books.

To demonstrate the importance of reading in today’s society, a sketch was presented by students from G.A primary and secondary school. It was made clear that today people tend to make more use of the new technologies available for reading.

To crown it all, three students read a special pledge in the three national languages and the others repeated it. They promised for the love of Seychelles to visit the National Library and read at least once a week.

Remarks:

In general we were very satisfied with the activities since it was a first. We feel nonetheless that there are still room for improvement especially on the level of organisation. We should prepare well in advance so that things will run smoothly next time.

We feel that we should set up a committee especially for ‘Reading‘ so that we can promote reading throughout the year.

We are happy that we got everybody to participate in this year’s activities since we observed in the past,that people tend to associate reading only with library.

Participation;

Students and teachers alike were keen to participate in the activities. However, we feel disappointed since we invited 20 parents for the special assembly and got the presence of only two. We feel that whatever we do for the school and our students, parents are not behind us to give us their support which is very unfortunate.

Way Forward;

1.       There will be a setting up of a committee which will have the mandate to keep reading activities flowing throughout the year, and also together we will look for strategies to get the community, especially the parents to join and participate with us.

2.       Better preparation/organisation of activities.

3.       Get the whole school, not only the language department, to participate in the activities. Reading concerns all the subjects!

4.       Raise fund to cater for prizes for students participating in the activities and to buy more books for the library.

PLEDGES

For the love of Seychelles I promise that I will encourage my friends to visit the National Library to improve our knowledge.

Pour lanmourSesel mon promet  pourfrekantbiblioteknasyonal pour anrisir  mon konesans.

A partir d’Aujourd’hui, pour l’amour des Seychelles, je promets de lire au moins un livre par semaine.

Minutes of librarian meeting held on Monday 20th April 2015.

Present;

Christine Chetty

Telma Barbe

Irma Pool

Edwidge Joubert

Aline Jean

Review of reading festival activities organised in collaboration with the National Library staff.

All members agreed that the activities wereworth,they were interesting though we had only one week preparation.

Ms Pool from the National library reported that thanks to our activities, with SBC coverage, she has new clients visiting the national library.

We agreed to start earlier next year and to keep closer link with the national library.

The Praslin secondary school had representatives from the management who were present for the activities, while at primary level no one was present. Aline said that at her school few staff were absent and had a meeting scheduled.

Next time we will have to invite few parents due to lack of space at the National Library.

The meeting ended at 12:30pm.