Welcome back to all students and staff – especially
the new people who have joined us. Here’s
hoping that you had a fantastic break and are all refreshed ready for the
school year.
I managed to cover 4 states, 2 territories and 10,000
kms over our break. We got to catch up
with lots of family and friends, handfeed meerkats (probably my highlight!),
dodge bushfires and floods, and generally got to see a whole lot of Australia I
hadn’t seen before.
(I’m so NOT ready to be here!!)
However, having said that – some time was spent on
browsing lots of library blogsites – as you do, of course – and that’s where I came
across the 2013 Challenge. The weblink
is below if you are interested. Most of the ideas suggested I have ‘borrowed’ from
this site. I would love to think I was
that creative but I’m not.
The idea has been floated that 20+13 = 33 and if you
change 2013 seconds into minutes, you get 33 mins and 33 seconds. Just a really neat little block of time for students and
staff to spend READING.
You could do it
for 13 occasions during the school year, which would work out to about once
every three weeks. We could call these ‘Literary Lunches’ (or whatever) and
invite people from the community to come in and read to/with the students. Maybe
introduce students to different genres, authors or series and challenge them to
try out 13 new ‘things’ and then to share them with their classmates, school or the
community. It could go on this blog, or
we could make up a wall in ‘Wall Wisher’ for the purpose or....
Please have a look at the link below and let me know
what you think – and whether you would be interested in helping to get this up
and running? You may have a totally radical way of putting it in place.
