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Next week some teachers from Finland are coming to visit our school. So we will explain them our Reading Annual Project

Are you new at school?

If so, you will need a brief introduction to our activities here.

• Reading hour: Everyday all of our students have 20 minutes ‘free reading’ time.
• Library hour: Once a week, each class goes to the library to do activities to learn how to use the library or work on our project.
• Library blog: On the library blog you will find the library catalogue, the national news and interesting new activities and links for members of the family. An authentic virtual library.
• Equal opportunity plan: In order to facilitate access to information and the internet, the library will stay open for students and their families on weekday afternoons during the extracurricular activities timetable (4pm-6pm).
• Travelling rucksacks: These are our idea to encourage family reading time. A selection of carefully chosen books, music and films which you can enjoy for ten days.
• Speaking Fridays: On Fridays, we dedicate 20 minutes to reading out loud so that our students are competent in linguistic communication and are able to express themselves with oral fluency. They prepare poem and story recitals or presentations about subjects they’ve been studying.
• Story afternoons: Once a week during the extracurricular activities timetable, teachers, parents, grandparents or students tell the children a story. This proposal is to help conserve oral tradition and to emphacise the importance of reading together as a family.
• News of the week: Each week, a group of students investigates something from the news often via a podcast (radio on the internet).
• News of the day: In order to prepare the news of the week, the group of students examine the daily press and choose a title for the library blog via an application specifically designed for this means.
• Weekly loans: Each class is assigned a time each week to go and borrow books and on Fridays during break time, there is a specific time for going to borrow books and materials.
• Reading club: We create reading clubs for the students within the school as well as with other schools in the city (IES Oriental Republic of Uruguay).
• Recommendation blog: A blog to spark interest in reading, writing and commenting on books. The entire school community can participate - families, teachers and students.