Day 2 of celebrating our culture and international mindedness through a cultural food festival while the Middle and High School students organised a "kari niu" scrapping coconut competition. Scrapping coconut is a daily chore in a i taukei household. "The International Baccalaureate aim to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. These programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.”" IB Mission Statement.
Enjoy a glimpse of our celebration today!

This week, we celebrate Harmony week & Library Information Week across Oceania. To celebrate books, libraries and reading, ISS Library signed up for the ALIA National Simultaneous storytime where one million children will read simultaneously on 22 May, 2019 at 11 am by sharing Alpacas with Maracas written and illustrated by Matt Cosgrove. We held part of our reading a day before with ECH2W and had so much fun dancing to the alpacas music and creating our alpaca mask. By facilitating NSS we aim to:

• promote and inspire a lifelong love of books and reading
• promote lifelong use of the library as a safe and fun place
• promote the value of reading and literacy,
• promote the value and fun of books,
• promote an Australian writer and publisher,

#NSS2019  #Readup #Speakup #Changetheworld

Say bula in your mother tongue! Where are you from? What's your favorite traditional food or custom?

Reception class using SOLO hexagon to identify & connect relationships between the library and the resources they can find within.