Grand Final of the Great Reading Competition

The final of the Grand Reading Competition in Hafnarfjörður will be
to be held on Tuesday, 13th March at 5 p.m. at Hafnarborg. The competition is now in its 22nd year.
changes in Hafnarfjörður where the competition is oldest and has its origins, but today it is
Held almost all over the country. These days, the competition is finishing in each school.
with a festival where two representatives from each school are chosen for the final festival in
Harbour City. At the final festival, students will read out poems and stories, but the poet
The competitors this time are Sigrún Eldjárn and Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðarson.

At the final festival in Hafnarborg, prizes are also awarded.
in an essay competition that has been running this winter for students in the 8th to 10th grades.
of the primary schools. Likewise, prizes will be awarded for a picture on the invitation.
of the end-of-year festival, but pupils in Year 6 of the primary schools may take part in it.
It is Ingibjörg Einarsdóttir, former office manager at the School Office.
Hafnarfjörður, which runs the festival, also oversees the project.
in Hafnarfjörður as she has done since the first festival was held in the spring
1997.

The Big Reading Competition began as a development project in
Hafnarfjörður's primary schools in 1996, but that year Ingibjörg also began working at
The School Office. The competition was organised in collaboration with primary schools in Hafnarfjörður.
the first school year, but since then the number of municipalities participating in has increased
the competition. Now in 2016, all primary schools in the country take part in the competition which
have students in the 7th grade. Few, if any, projects have had such widespread distribution in
in Icelandic primary schools.

The picture is from last year's competition, which took place at Hafnarborg.
and it turned out particularly well