Icelandic Language Day is celebrated on 16 November each year, which falls on a Monday this year. On that day, the formal start of the Great Reading Competition in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools takes place. It is held in the seventh grade of the primary schools. This winter, it celebrates its 20th anniversary in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, and as the festival began in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, it will only be 20 years old in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur this year. To mark the Day of the Icelandic Language, celebrations are often held in the schools where reading aloud in Icelandic is an important part of the programme.<\/p>\n
On the Day of the Icelandic Language, a competition for invitation cards for the final of the Great Reading Competition, to be held on 8 March 2016, also begins in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Pupils in Year 6 of the primary schools may take part in the competition for the invitations. The competition consists of drawing a black-and-white picture in A5 size, without any text that is not part of the picture itself. Entries must be submitted to the schools by 8 February.<\/p>\n
On the Day of the Icelandic Language, the Junior Reading Competition for pupils in Year 4 in the schools of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur also begins. The competition is modelled on the Senior Reading Competition, although no central festival is held at the end, as is the case with the Senior competition.
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\nA short story competition for pupils in Years 9-11 in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's secondary schools also begins on the day of the Icelandic Language, 16 November, and stories must be submitted by 8 February 2016. The theme is open this year, but the concepts of care, courage or cheerfulness, individually or all together, could be taken into consideration when writing. Each story should be 600-1000 words and submitted to the respective schools. A competition leaflet will be sent to all schools. The results will be announced at the final of the Great Reading Competition at Hafnarborg in March 2016.<\/p>\n
The picture is of the winners of the Grand Reading Competition in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in 2015, together with their headteachers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dagur \u00edslenskrar tungu er haldinn h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0legur 16. n\u00f3vember \u00e1r hvert og fellur \u00e1 m\u00e1nudag \u00feetta \u00e1ri\u00f0. \u00de\u00e1 hefst formlega St\u00f3ra upplestrarkeppnin \u00ed grunnsk\u00f3lum Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar. H\u00fan er haldin \u00ed 7. bekkjum grunnsk\u00f3lanna. \u00cd vetur heldur h\u00fan upp \u00e1 20 \u00e1ra afm\u00e6li \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i og \u00fear sem h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0in h\u00f3fst \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i ver\u00f0ur h\u00fan a\u00f0eins 20 \u00e1ra \u00ed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12829"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}