{"id":13788,"date":"2019-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/stora-upplestrarkeppnin-vex-og-dafnar-29-lokahatidir-thetta-vorid\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:01:30","slug":"the-big-reading-competition-is-growing-and-thriving-29-graduation-ceremonies-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/stora-upplestrarkeppnin-vex-og-dafnar-29-lokahatidir-thetta-vorid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Reading Competition is growing and thriving \u2013 29 finals this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The final of the Grand Reading Competition in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur was held at Hafnarborg yesterday for the 23rd time. All of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools send representatives to the competition; two from each school, making 14 contestants in total this year. At the event, the pupils performed an extract from a work of fiction and a poem, and at the end, a judging panel selected the three best readers and presented them with special awards. This year, the awards went to Ingunn Lind P\u00e9tursd\u00f3ttir from Hvaleyrarsk\u00f3li (1st place), Katla Stef\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir from Hraunvallask\u00f3li (2nd place), and Ester Am\u00edra \u00c6gisd\u00f3ttir from \u00c1slandssk\u00f3li (3rd place). The judging panel consisted of Anna \u00deorbj\u00f6rg Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir, chair of the panel, \u00c1rni Sverrir Bjarnason, \u00c1sta Margr\u00e9t Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir and Birgir \u00d6rn Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson. The results of the short story competition for years 8\u201310 were also announced, and prizes were awarded for the best illustration for the poster of the final festival. This year's competition judges are the author duo \u00c6var \u00de\u00f3r Benediktsson and Anna Sigr\u00fan Snorrad\u00f3ttir. Anna Sigr\u00fan's descendants attended the celebration. R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir, the mayor, and Krist\u00edn Thoroddsen, chair of the education committee, presented the prizes and awards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cheerful sounds of the pupils in the V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0ask\u00f3li brass band welcomed guests at the start of the celebration, truly adding a festive touch to the occasion. Pupils from the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Music School also took to the stage. The guitarists S\u00f3ley Anna Arnarsd\u00f3ttir and Valger\u00f0ur B\u00e1ra Baldvinsd\u00f3ttir played MILONGA by T. Tissserand in a guitar duet, and the flautists Kolbr\u00fan Gar\u00f0arsd\u00f3ttir, Kamilla G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir, Sunneva \u00de\u00f6ll G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir and Hj\u00f6rd\u00eds Ylfa Arnarsd\u00f3ttir who played Norwegian Dance No. 2, Op. 35 by Edvard Grieg. The talk choir of the Year 4 pupils at Hraunvallask\u00f3li performed three poems; \"Ung\u00e6\u00f0i\" by Sigur\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsson, \"Allir eiga drauma\" by \u00d3lafur Haukur S\u00edmonarson and \"OR\u00d0\" by \u00de\u00f3rarinn Eldj\u00e1rn. These pupils, along with other pupils in the 4th year classes of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools, have this winter taken part in the Little Reading Competition, along with just over 3,000 other pupils across the country. The Little Reading Competition, a growing spin-off from the Big Reading Competition, is thriving. The competition is based on the same philosophy as the Big Reading Competition, but in this one, pupils read a lot in talk groups and approach the project in a slightly different way. In the end, all participants in the Big and Little Reading Competitions are winners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes in a short story competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A short story competition for pupils in years 8 to 10 of the state schools was launched on the Day of the Icelandic Language, and pupils could choose to write either a fantasy story or a story that dealt in some way with health. The judging panel received 15 stories, and its members were Ingibj\u00f6rg Einarsd\u00f3ttir, J\u00f3hanna Gu\u00f0r\u00ed\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsson and Gunnhildur J\u00f3natansd\u00f3ttir. Two stories came in third place. The other story is called H\u00c1SKAF\u00d6R, a fantasy story about the siblings Eldlilja and Fenris. The author is J\u00fal\u00eda Hei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, who is in Year 10 at \u00d6ldut\u00fanssk\u00f3li. The other story to take third place is called Fl\u00f3ki. It is about a boy who was born with a cleft lip and is known as \u201ethe boy with the ugly lip\u201c. The story was considered exceptionally well-structured, well-written and capable of evoking all sorts of emotions in its readers. The author is Andrea Mar\u00fd Sigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, a pupil at V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0ask\u00f3li. Second place was awarded to the story THE STORY of HAFSTEIN. It is about the couple, Hafstein and Sigr\u00fan, who were poor cottagers and could not afford to send their children to school. The author is Ur\u00f0ur Vala Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, a pupil in 10.SR at V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0ask\u00f3li. The story that came first is called GALDRASTEINN and is set in New Delhi. The story is about strength, perseverance and is very well-structured, the subject matter interesting, and the author has a good command of the language. The author is An\u00edta \u00d3sk Hilmarsd\u00f3ttir in 10.MJ at Hraunvallask\u00f3li.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competition for invitation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a tradition to hold a competition for invitation cards among the pupils in the sixth form. Many fun suggestions were received and the judging panel had a difficult time choosing, but the winning design was used on this year's final festival invitation and adorns the printed festival programme. The picture shows a substantial stack of books, presumably ones the person has finished reading. The young artist behind the winning design is \u00de\u00f3rhildur Kristj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, a Year 6 pupil at \u00c1slandssk\u00f3li.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Grand Reading Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Great Reading Competition originated in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, but other municipalities soon joined, and for 19 years, almost all Year 7 pupils in the country have taken part in the competition. The aim of the competition is always the same: to take care in the delivery of the mother tongue, for the enjoyment of oneself and others. The competition is divided into two parts: a cultivation phase, which always begins on the Day of the Icelandic Language in November, and a festival phase where the schools' representatives come together. These representatives have been selected at grand festivals in their schools. The project is run nationwide and is organised by the association Raddir, a society for quality reading and presentation.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lokah\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0 St\u00f3ru upplestrarkeppninnar \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i var haldin \u00ed Hafnarborg \u00ed g\u00e6r \u00ed 23. skipti. Allir grunnsk\u00f3lar Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar senda fulltr\u00faa til keppninnar, tveir koma fr\u00e1 hverjum sk\u00f3la og voru keppendur \u00ed \u00e1r \u00fev\u00ed 14 talsins. \u00c1 h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0inni fluttu nemendur brot \u00far sk\u00e1ldverki og lj\u00f3\u00f0i og a\u00f0 lokum valdi d\u00f3mnefnd \u00ferj\u00e1 bestu upplesarana og veitti \u00feeim s\u00e9rstaka [&hellip;]<\/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-13788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788","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=13788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13788"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}