Literacy and Culture Week

Literacy Across the Curriculum

Literacy Week in Primary

Literacy and Culture Week is celebrated every year at XLIS. Our goals are to foster a love for reading and to bring awareness that there are many creative ways to develop reading and writing. The theme supports the International Baccalaureate’s (IB) philosophy that “all teachers are language teachers”. We want to showcase the role of the mother tongue and what literacy development looks like in the homeroom and single-subject classes.

One of the highlights of Literacy and Culture Week is bringing all stakeholders together. Many activities were planned throughout the week to engage students in reading and writing. Parents and staff were invited to different classes to read in other languages representing our students’ mother tongue. We invited a professional storyteller, Mr. Andy Wright from New Zealand, to read from ECEA – M5. Our primary and secondary visual arts collaborated to do a project with P4 & M4 by making an illustrated manuscript project.

Another significant milestone this year is celebrating Literacy and Culture Week schoolwide. We had a successful ‘’Book Fair’’ for three days organized by our librarian, Mr. Jessie. The collaboration between primary, secondary, and library made the event meaningful and successful. It was delightful to see the different classroom activities, such as making a newspaper dressed in black and white, bookmarkers, and read-aloud! The celebration ended with a book character fashion show. Literacy skills empower students to be independent and become effective communicators, which are critical to success. The event was a great reminder of the importance of literacy in our everyday lives.

Literacy Week In Secondary

Quote for the week:

“Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realise his or her full potential.” – Kofi Annan

This quote was the introduction to the whole week. However, the Middle school students under the guidance of Mr. Michael and Mr. Kyle took part in the first Spelling Bee competition at XLIS. This was a very good way to welcome the literacy week.

XLIS 1st Annual Middle School Spelling Bee

Teachers and students have been very busy addressing Literacy in all their subjects- the main message was that literacy does not only refer to language classes but in all subjects. Math addressed literacy by doing group work, Visual Arts students defined the main elements in Arts through visuals, Chinese Language & Literature classes represented the novel studies and their perspectives through visuals.

The highlight of the week was the Story Telling sessions which was appreciated by all students from Middle school to High school. It was a great endeavor on the part of our librarian Jessie Yatar. The week was concluded by exciting activities organized by the student council-students were dressed as their favorite book characters.

Every student enjoyed the day on Friday. This was a very successful week for the students and it left good memories.

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Author:

Jaimala Quinlan (Secondary Principal)

Maria Zialcita (PYP Coordinator)

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