CELEBRATING THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARY DAY

(fourth Monday in October each year)

ACTIVITIES

2007

  • Display of bookmarks illustrating favourite book titles - by 7th/ 8th grade students

  • Guided Visits to the school library - 7th grade

  • In each class cooperation of Portuguese Language teachers with reference to

    • quotations from the book 'A History of Reading', by Alberto Manguel

    • Miguel Torga -- reading aloud poems celebrating his 100th birthday

  • Watching the film 'The Day they came to arrest the Book', by Gilbert Moses - 10th grade

  • Participation in the forums in our school's moodle (you can login as a guest)

  • Handing out a bookmark (in pdf) designed by our school library

  • Participation in Cherie Sherley's 2007 ISLD International Email Project -

    message sent with reference to: 'My favourites' - 7th grade students, class A

  • Updating our school library web page concerning ISLD

October, 2007

2006

  • Display of bookmarks illustrating favourite book titles - by 7th/ 9th grade students

  • Voting 2/3 favourite books and reasons for reading - by 7th/ 10th grade students

  • In each class cooperation of Portuguese Language teachers with reference to

    • The Reader's Rights, by Daniel Pennac

    • António Gedeão -- reading aloud poems celebrating his 100th birthday

  • Handing out bookmarks (in pdf) designed by our school library

  • Writing sentences about our school library

  • Updating our school library web page concerning ISLD

2005

  • Display of bookmarks inspired in ''The Magic of Books/Reading'' - by 7th/ 8th grade students

  • ''The book we've chosen to our class''- by 7th/8th/9th grade  students

  • Handing out bookmarks (in pdf) designed by our school library

  • Updating our school library web page concerning ISLD

2004

  • Display of bookmarks designed by students of the 7th and 8th grades

  • "The school libraries in our schooldays" - interviews to parents carried out by 9th-grade sts.

  • "The books we recommend" - by secondary-level students

  • Handing out bookmarks (in pdf) designed by our school library

  • Updating our school library web page concerning ISLD

  • Sending an e-mail to other school libraries throughout the world  (in pdf)

  • Helping a school library in East Timor

2003

(in this year our school library was completely remodelled)

  • Making public / selling our book "Poetry at school - IV"

2002

 

Sending messages by e-mail to other world school libraries about:

  • "Sharing experiences involving other surrounding school libraries" (in pdf)

  • "A typical day at our school" (in pdf) by 10th-grade students

2001

  • Message sent by e-mail to other world school libraries - "MESSAGE TO THE WORLD" (in pdf)

  • Meeting involving representatives from surrounding school libraries and Ministery of Education

  • Writing sentences about school libraries / learning by students of different classes

  • Writing messages for world peace in "http://www.murpourlapaix.org/site/"

  • Display of messages sent to us by  world school libraries

  • Handing out bookmarks designed by our school library

2000

  • Logo / bookmark / mousemat / slogan contests concerning school libraries and reading

  • teachers', employees', parents' visit and opinion on school libraries

  • Display  of our school library memory

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