Representatives from the Lions Club of Hafnarfjörður recently presented a curriculum pack to the pupils at Víðivellir Nursery School. All nurseries in Hafnarfjörður have now received a comprehensive educational resource pack, which the National Centre for Education, in collaboration with the Lions Club, is providing to all nurseries in the country.
The pack contains letter tiles that can be used in a variety of ways, as well as posters with letters and numbers that can be displayed in the environment, movement games, musical games and easy-reader books. The distribution of the learning materials is part of the National Literacy Pact, and it is the hope of the National Education Agency that the materials will be well used to enhance language and literacy in the diverse work carried out in the country's nurseries. Representatives of the Lions Movement in Iceland took on the distribution of the learning materials and visited all playgroups with the gift. The three Lions Clubs in Hafnarfjörður handled the distribution to the local nurseries. Lions is the world's largest international service organisation, founded in the United States in 1917. Today, over 1.4 million Lions members work in 206 countries. Globally, the Lions movement is fighting illiteracy and promoting reading, and has been doing so successfully for the last 10 years. Lions Clubs are encouraged to serve their local communities, as well as working together nationally on larger projects. This curriculum pack from the National Education Agency, in partnership with Lions, is a welcome gift that complements the City of Hafnarfjörður's literacy strategy.
We sincerely thank the National Education Agency and the Lions Clubs of Hafnarfjörður!
Hafnarfjörður's Literacy Policy
Hafnarfjörður's literacy strategy is a community project in which nurseries and primary schools, together with parents and various municipal institutions, work in partnership to promote children's language development and literacy. The aim of promoting literacy is for pupils to be able to read for knowledge and enjoyment by the end of their primary school education. Benchmarks for expected achievement are set, and emphasis is placed on providing all pupils with appropriate instruction. Staff in nurseries and primary schools select effective teaching methods that help to achieve the literacy objectives.