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'Let your imagination grow with a good book!' - brown paper tree with lots of books and animals reading books on the branches

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'Let your imagination grow with a good book!' - brown paper tree with lots of books and animals reading books on the branches

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(we focus on Braille reading around this time)

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National Simultaneous Storytime, Wed, May 19

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National Simultaneous Storytime, Wed, May 19

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23 April

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2 April

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22/5/1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Birthday

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International dot day based on the Peter Reynolds  book The Dot

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International dot day based on the Peter Reynolds  book The Dot

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National Day of Action against bullying and violence 19/3

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Computer Science Education Week - Hour of Code Day - 1st week in Dec

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Computer Science Education Week - Hour of Code Day - 1st week in Dec

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30/3 International Friendship Day

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7/5 Space Day

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3/9/1961 Andy Griffith’s Birthday

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19/9/1979 Hermione Granger’s Birthday

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19/9 Talk like a pirate Day

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12/10 Ada Lovelace Day - celebrating women in STEM

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10/11/1960 Neil Gaiman’s birthday

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15-19 Nov

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We love WNRW and have been taking part since it started! We make this a big theme throughout the school and get everyone involved! Our older children perform the rhymes to our early years children, it's amazing!

Anna W
Primary School, United Kingdom

The importance of nursery rhymes for the under 7's

Nursery rhymes play an important role in early childhood development and education. As well as being fun they are excellent teaching tools:

They provide a fun way to support early numeracy skills

Nursery rhymes help children to develop social, physical and emotional skills.

Row Row Row Your Boat is one of our featured rhymes for 2023!

For further videos please subscribe to our You Tube Channel here

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World Nursery Rhyme Week is a free, world-wide initiative celebrating the importance of nursery rhymes in early childhood development.

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29/11/1953 Jackie French’s birthday

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Kids Own Australian Literature Awards winners and honour books announced

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Children’s choice literature awards. Nominations from children in NSW are collated with state and territory partners to create a shortlist of 40 books in 4 categories. Children read and vote in Terms 2 and 3. Winners announced in November at face to face awards day and/or online. koalansw.org.au

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8 June

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Celebrate World Ocean Day on 8 June and throughout the year! One Ocean, One Climate, One Future - Together prepare for June 12 Months of Action Become a 2024 Sponsor [...]

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26-30 July
Theme: Lifelong Learners

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Education Week is an annual celebration of NSW public education and the achievements of our schools, students and education system.

This year Ed Week will run from Monday 26 to Friday 30 July 2021 celebrating the theme Lifelong learners.

Education Week 2021

Education Week 2021 will be held from 26-30 July (Week 3, Term 3).

Education Week is your chance to celebrate the achievements of your school, students and learning community.

Lifelong learners

This year's theme is 'Lifelong learners' and celebrates education as a lifelong journey from before a child enters an early childhood setting, progressing to primary and secondary school, and continuing their learning journey into adulthood; learning a trade, entering tertiary education, or the workforce.

Education is a lifelong journey

Continuous learning is critical for success throughout life and everyone can be a lifelong learner.

We are developing lifelong learners and our education system is available for a lifetime.

Developing lifelong learners

From the first days in child care to post-school pathways, our education system is preparing young people to be agile thinkers and lifelong learners.

Learning can look different for individual students and our system is equipped to provide learning support for all of our students.

Learning often takes place beyond the classroom and we should celebrate all types of learning that occurs at all levels across our education system.

Contact us

Have a question related to Ed Week?

Email us at: EdWeek@det.nsw.edu.au

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Education Week is an annual celebration of NSW public education and the achievements of our schools, students and education system. This year Ed Week will run from Monday 26 to Friday 30 July 2021 celebrating the theme Lifelong learners. Education Week 2021 will be held from 26-30 July (Week 3, Term 3).

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Australia Reads

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Celebrate reading on Tuesday 14 September 2021 with 200 Authors & Illustrators
* The much-loved annual Australian Reading Hour returns on Tuesday 14 September 2021
* Originally launched by Australian libraries for the National Year of Reading in 2012
* It is now the national signature showcase event program for Australia Reads
* Featuring events and activities activities in schools, libraries and bookshops nationally
* With more than 200 Australian book creators available in-person and virtually for events

Curated by Australia Reads, these events or readers of all ages are designed to explore how the stories we read and write, share and recommend help shape our sense of identity, belonging & wellbeing. Host an event to inspire ideas for more books to discover and read!
If you'd like to become involved as an ambassador, bookseller or event host, please let the team at Australia Reads know on hello(at)australiareads(dot)org(dot)au

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Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Australian Reading Hour Get Involved Australian Reading Hour 2021 Stories that Matter: The Story of Me, the Story of You, and How we are becoming Us Celebrate reading on Tuesday 14 September 2021 with 200 Authors & Illustrators * The much-loved annual Australian Reading Hour returns on Tuesday 14 September 2021* [...]

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Celebrate Roald Dahl Story Day on 13 September - the global celebration of Roald Dahl stories. We've the most wonderful, most fantastic activities, lesson resources, inspiration and costumes suitable for fans of Roald Dahl stories - both young and old!

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Bookmark Exchange Project - Match with other schools around the world and exchange homemade bookmarks made by your students. Bookmark exchanges are made by post. 2021 registration is now open.

. 2021 registration is now open. Digital Bookmark Exchange Project - Match with other schools around the world and exchange homemade bookmarks made by your students. Bookmark exchanges are virtually View pairings.

Virtual Connections Around the World Project - Would your students like to talk to others in a faraway country during International School Library Month? The trick is finding someone in a time zone where you can link up via Skype/ Zoom or MS Teams. Connect your classroom with other students around the world through Skype/ Zoom/ MS Teams. View responses.

Click here to view ISLM Projects submitted by school libraries from around the world from 2013-2020.

Isn't it fun to talk about your creative work with others? Isn't bringing stories to life a joyful experience ? How exciting it is to listen to the tales woven around the world! So, we encourage the participants to tell us about their journey of doing this activity through a short video of about 1 to 2 minutes. We would love to know more about you and your work. So, kindly mention your name, name of the school, grade, describe your artwork, and include a little message for ISLM.

If you do not wish to sign up for any of the activities being coordinated by ISLM for October you can still organize your own events to celebrate International School Library Month. No doubt you will have plenty of ideas of your own, but here are some suggestions based on the 2019 theme, Let's Imagine!

4. One hundred years from now....: invite your students to imagine their school library 100 years from now. Or, to imagine their village/town/country, etc 100 years from now. Ask them to either describe it in words or present it visually, or in a 3D form or musical form.

6. Our World ...... imagine what our world will be like in 20 years time/50 years time etc. OR what your students would like it to be like etc.

The resources in your school library can provide a body of information to your students for #4 and #5 above.

8. Reading broadens the imagination, so organize any reading activity of your choice.

9. Book Buffet, to encourage the reading of a variety of books.... Here's a reading activity that would give students an opportunity to read from books other than the genre they usually opt for.

Some organizational guidelines. .....

Choose an area that can accommodate separate reading points for the number of students in your class group. In a school library, the number of participants is dictated by the library space and the number of spaced-out reading points it can set up.

Select a number of different genres of books (if you know the reading preferences of your participants, select the kind your participants would not usually opt for).

Seat each student at a different reading point and invite them to read from the book placed there for a period of uninterrupted time. The reader can start from any point in the book eg. the opening chapter, any arbitrary point in the book, etc. Usually, they should read for at least 10 minutes.

After the reading period is up eg 10-15 minutes, the participants move on to the next reading point and repeat the activity.

In this way, participants read from different genres and may be interested to read further in their own time from the selected titles or from titles of a similar genre.

"Book Buffet is a time-based reading activity where students get to taste (to know) different genres. In the library, tables and chairs can be arranged to give it a look of a buffet table using table cloths, paper plates, name tags (of genres). Set a timer, say to 10 minutes or less (according to library schedule). Place the books of different genres on different tables and make sure that each child will get one book every time the timer buzz goes off. If you have placed 5 books of 5 genres then each student will taste 25 books. Do provide students with a piece of paper and pen so that they can write down a little about the book they have tasted. And during the library period they can read the full book that they find the best during the activity".

An example of a bingo card would be as follows:

12 For seniors Focus on Nineteen Eighty-Four , by George Orwell: Orwell's classic novel, first published in 1949 (50 years ago this year) imagined a future world in 1984. Invite your students to read Orwell's book (or selected extracts from it) and hold a class discussion to compare how Orwell imagines life in 1984, with life as it actually was in 1984, and the way it is today.

13 Book Talk: organize a discussion between students and teacher/school librarian about their favorite books and/or authors.

14 Share a story/folktale: invite parents and/or grandparents with different cultural backgrounds to read a folktale from their own culture and to come to the event dressed in their specific national or ethnic costume.

A different version of this activity is to invite the adults to read a story in their native (primary) language.

15 Act Out: organize senior students to go to primary classes to read and act out a story or selection of stories using props. This can be an interaction with a very imaginative element for both senior students acting out the story and for junior students as the audience.

16 Author/Illustrator Visit: organize an author visit. Questions from students for the author could be prepared with a focus on this year's theme eg. where authors get ideas for their stories from, what inspires them, how they shape and develop those ideas ie. the process from idea to published book. For illustrators, they could be asked to describe the process from the idea to the page with a focus on developing the visuals in the book.

17 Library Scavenger Hunt/Treasure Hunt:

If groups are participating in any of the partnered ISLM activities, a version of this activity can be done in conjunction with the partner group/school. Students gather information about the partner school's country, write their stories and made storybooks.

Prepared by the ISLM Team 2021

ISLM FREELISTS: Keep yourself updated with ISLM happenings around the year, sign up. IASL has created a listserv specifically for those who have an interest in ISLM. Please use the following link to sign up for the listserv in order to receive the latest news about ISLM. Thank you for supporting IASL & participating in ISLM. Sign up here: https://www.freelists.org/list/iaslislm

JOIN TEAM ISLM: Be a part of Team ISLM by filling the ISLM Recruitment Form 2022. Click ISLM Recruitment Form 2022: COMING SOON.....

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International Association of School Librarianship - International School Library Month

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Bookmark Exchange Project - Match with other schools around the world and exchange homemade bookmarks made by your students. Bookmark exchanges are made by post. 2021 registration is now open. . 2021 registration is now open. Digital Bookmark Exchange Project - Match with other schools around the world and exchange homemade bookmarks made by your students.

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The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has for many years celebrated Library and Information Week (LIW) during the month of May, with the aim of building awareness of the library and information sector, and promoting all types of library and information services in Australia.

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The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has for many years celebrated Library and Information Week (LIW) during the month of May, with the aim of building awareness of the library and information sector, and promoting all types of library and information services in Australia.

However, in recent years, we have found that the growing popularity of National Simultaneous Storytime, held on the Wednesday of LIW, has often drawn focus from the week's wider campaign and messages. Feedback received has also indicated that mid-to-late May is not the optimum time for university libraries to engage their students, given that this corresponds with the final weeks of the Term 1 teaching calendar.

So, as of 2022, Library and Information Week will be held on the week starting on the final Monday in July.

For the next three years, the dates will be:

25-31 July 2022

31 July - 6 August 2023

29 July - 4 August 2024

These dates have been carefully selected to avoid clashing with school and public holidays, or with any other currently planned major campaign weeks in Australia, and as close to Health Information Week as possible. It is anticipated that, by holding the week toward the beginning of Term 2 in the university calendar, that there will be a stronger level of engagement from the university library sector, and ALIA aims to develop LIW themes that can be more strongly applicable in academic and special libraries. With the bulk of ALIA's events and campaigns currently held from February to May each year, this change also creates the opportunity for ALIA to more evenly schedule our annual calendar, and National Simultaneous Storytime will continue to occur in the second half of May, with next year's event scheduled for Wednesday 25 May.

Please add these dates to your library calendar. We hope that these new dates will create new opportunities for more library and information services across Australia to connect with this annual campaign, as a more inclusive week that promotes our professional work in all of its sectors.
About the Australian Library and Information Association
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is the professional organisation for the Australian library and information services sector. With 5,000 members across Australia, we provide the national voice of the profession in the development, promotion and delivery of quality library and information services, through leadership, advocacy and mutual support. alia.org.au

Contact: Andrew Finegan, Communications Manager | andrew.finegan@alia.org.au | 02 6215 8222

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Library and Information Week moves to July in 2022

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Jeff Kinney’s Birthday 19/2/1971