{"id":14094,"date":"2019-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/aevintyraheimur-bokasafns-hvaleyrarskola\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:02:33","slug":"the-adventure-world-of-the-whale-school-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/aevintyraheimur-bokasafns-hvaleyrarskola\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventure World of Hvaleyrarsk\u00f3li Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are 415 pupils at Hvaleyrarsk\u00f3li this winter, and the aim of the school library is to support and encourage reading, as well as to create an adventurous and interesting environment where reading and books are highly valued. The school library is at the heart of the school, a place everyone visits daily. The local paper Hafnfir\u00f0ingur paid a visit<\/a> and spoke with Steinar \u00d3. Stephensen, department manager.<\/em><\/p>\n

Something eye-catching and interesting is put up on the front of the library. Children, staff and parents then stop to look and chat about whatever is on display. The library's circulation figures clearly show how keen the pupils are to borrow books. The library is open for the first two periods of each school day, and most pupils use this time to return and borrow books. It is often said that there should be up to a hundred books in every classroom, and we try our best to meet this. The Red Cross also provides homework help once a week, and another volunteer had to be added due to the high demand.<\/p>\n

\u201eLibrarian Sif Hei\u00f0a Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir is responsible for how the school library at Hvaleyrarsk\u00f3li has developed and flourished. At the beginning of Advent, the school library is decorated and the Christmas books are put on display. It always creates a wonderful atmosphere. Then, Christmas book presentations are held in the school library with the pupils' form tutors. Sif Hei\u00f0a talks about the books using a slide presentation, and then pupils can browse them and are given a special form to write down the books they would like. New books are not loaned out until after the Christmas holidays, as hopefully most pupils will receive at least one book as a Christmas present.,<\/em>\u201csays Steinar.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of December, the school's Christmas bauble reading begins, where pupils decorate a Christmas bauble according to their reading targets and hang it on the Christmas tree at the front of the school library. \u201eThe trees will therefore be beautifully decorated at the end of the two weeks. In the final week before the Christmas holidays, all the class teachers of children in the early years receive wrapped Christmas books to read, for example during snack time. The pupils have found this very festive and exciting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Talking is permitted in the school library, but shouting is not. The library is a sanctuary where students are met with warmth, peace and quiet in a lively environment. You can often find connections to current world events, such as volcanic eruptions, authors\u201e birthdays, children's book awards or other topics. When authors visit the school to read to the pupils, their books are displayed and accompanied by interesting facts. There is also a pirate day and a \u201cbanned books\u201e week. One of the most important aspects of the library's work is the collaboration between librarians at the town's libraries. \u201cIt matters for job satisfaction, which results in strong school libraries and the B\u00f3kabrall collaboration, an annual event in the town's school libraries where pupils work together to solve literary challenges,\"<\/em> says Steinar.<\/p>\n

An interview with Steinar was published in Hafnfir\u00f0inginn on 20 December 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

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415 nemendur eru \u00ed Hvaleyrarsk\u00f3la \u00ed vetur og markmi\u00f0 sk\u00f3lasafns Hvaleyrarsk\u00f3la er a\u00f0 sty\u00f0ja vi\u00f0 og auka lestur, auk \u00feess a\u00f0 skapa \u00e6vint\u00fdralegt og \u00e1hugavert umhverfi \u00fear sem lestur og b\u00e6kur eru \u00ed h\u00e1vegum h\u00f6f\u00f0. Sk\u00f3lasafni\u00f0 er \u00ed hjarta sk\u00f3lans, \u00fear sem allir eiga erindi hj\u00e1 daglega. B\u00e6jarbla\u00f0i\u00f0 Hafnfir\u00f0ingur k\u00edkti \u00ed heims\u00f3kn og r\u00e6ddi vi\u00f0 […]<\/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-14094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094","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=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}