The ISH Annual Library Book Day
- Created on 05 April 2022
- Last changed on 10 May 2022
"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."
Dr. Seuss
Our library staff love books SO much they decided to create a special day to celebrate them! The Annual ISH Book Day. A day where our book loving librarians Christine and Fabiana organised a bunch of activities and fun. They were assisted by some of our students, who, as voracious readers themselves were excited to join them in creating this special day. A day dedicated to sharing the JOY of reading and books.
As always, our commuity supported our endeavours by donating books, books and more books! These books were greatly appreciated by our students and staff alike, our pre-loved book stall was a huge success. Priced from 50 cents the books stall raised €136.70. This money will be donated to the Burmese Leaning Centre in Thailand, a foundation who we have a long standing connection with.
Our students and staff were able to participate in many activities including making their own bookmarks, drawing manga book charactors, learning to write books, contributing to the 'shelfie' wall with their favourite book, competing in a kahoot book quiz and our sustainability committee engaged them in origami with old books!
As a special treat our students were treated to special readings from the Harry Potter series books by Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, aka Mr. Jones and Ms. Neethling.
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” – Albus Dumbledore
Students and staff were encouraged to dress-up as a book character and they certainly went all out! All of those who dressed-up were guaranteed to win a prize, but there was one special prize for the winner of the best costume. This prize went to Sienna van Arkel (IT7a), who dressed-up as ‘De Grijze Jager’. Congratulations Sienna. 👏 Her costume was creative and very well done, she had put a lot of effort into making it authentic. Thank you to all of you who dressed up.
Lastly, a HUGE thanks to our brilliant librarians and all of their student helpers Neha, Ellie, Lara, Sophia, Riptiva, Ela, Maëlle, Yasmine, Elles, Isla and Liza. We can't wait to see this annual day, this new ISH tradition continue to grow into its own story.
