Create something out of your reading, says principal

In accordance with this year’s book week theme Read, Educate, Advance and Develop, students were urged to not only read to be informed but to also be able to create something.

“You read, educate yourself, then you develop, you create something,” said Vunapope International Primary School principal Bosco Uraliu in his closing remarks.

Like other schools in the country, the East New Britain institute took the time to observe the National Book Week, which annually falls on the first week of August.

Uraliu emphasised that by commemorating the National Book Week, the school appreciated that reading was an essential way of advancing and developing.

All activities conducted in commemoration of the event came to an end with a day of item presentations and the main highlight, a character parade, last Friday.

Throughout the week, there were a variety of competitions that were set up by book week program coordinators of the school. These competitions included essay writing for grades 8 and 10, poster making for grades 1 and 2, 7 and 9, poem writing for grades 5 and 6, book marker making for grades 3 and 4 and drawing and painting for preschool and grade prep.

Apart from the competitions, there were other activities which saw the teachers taking turns to read to a class other than theirs, as well as buddy reading by the secondary students of the school with the junior classes.

(A teacher reading to the A grade prep students during the National Book Week celebrations last week.)

Author: 
Fiona Silo