Literacy Week
‘Literacy Week’ takes place during the week beginning 17th November.
During the week, we aim to promote literacy and raise awareness of the benefits of improving reading, writing and skills.
“Reading Accelerates Success” is the theme for the week.
There are a number of events and activities planned during the week including:
- Poster Competitions
- DEAR ( Drop Everything and Read)
- Writing Competition
- Countdown Conundrum Game
- Word Millionaire
- Quotations in Art class
- Crosswords/ wordsearch etc.
- Workshop for some students in Creative Writing to be facilitated by local author and illustrator Oisin MacCann
- Visit in from the Editor of the Meath Chronicle, John Donoghue – Media Studies
- Visit in from Poet and Short Story Writer, Micheal Shields – Retired from Tara Mines and went back to education Micheal has published a lot of work to date. He is currently working on a Project with Meath Writers Group to commemorate the 1916 Rising.
Recommended reading lists are posted on the notice boards in the school.
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)
This is a great way of promoting reading across the whole school. The idea is that everyone stops what they are doing and reads for fifteen minutes.
It is a shared experience, gets people talking about books and reading while conveying a strong message that the school believes in reading.
When ? During Literacy Week (17th Nov ‘14)
Students will need to have a book/ novel/ newspaper/ magazine in their bag to read every day that week.