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\nThe Big Reading Day took place for the first time in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools this week. The programme was two-part, with a conference for class teachers in Years 1-4, specialist teachers, support assistants, heads of the junior department and support services, managers of after-school clubs and headteachers of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools streamed to other schools in the town from the lecture hall of Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3li. The results of surveys on literacy work in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools were reviewed, and presentations were given, among other things, on working with vocabulary and enhancing literacy in multilingual pupils.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, a training session for teachers on the middle- and secondary school levels, streamed live from Hvaleyrarsk\u00f3li to other schools, where Ragnar \u00de\u00f3r P\u00e9tursson, a teacher and chairman of K\u00cd, gave a talk on critical textual and conceptual analysis, and J\u00f3hann Bj\u00f6rnsson, a teacher and philosopher, gave a talk on critical thinking. In the other schools, staff gathered to follow the conference on a large screen. The conference hosts were Bjartey Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, a speech and language therapist and project manager for literacy, and Vigf\u00fas Hallgr\u00edmsson, a primary school development officer at the Education and Public Health Department of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Municipality.<\/p>\n\n
Staff at Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3li followed the conference in the lecture hall, while it was streamed to other schools in the town.<\/p>\n
\u00a0A similar conference for nursery school staff will be held on 13 September and will be streamed to other nurseries from the lecture hall of Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3li. Following the conferences, a collaborative forum on literacy will be established, comprising seven groups of teachers, divided according to the age of the children they teach. The groups will meet approximately six times over the winter to discuss issues and literacy in relation to the age of their respective student groups.<\/p>\n
The Big Reading Day is part of a major, comprehensive Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur project. <\/em><\/p>\n Literacy is a prerequisite for active participation in society. For several years, the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has been working systematically according to a clear and effective literacy strategy called 'Reading is the Game of Life'. This is a major community project where nurseries and primary schools, together with parents, the healthcare service, childminders and various municipal institutions, work in partnership to promote children's language development and literacy. The project's stated aim is for pupils to be able to read for knowledge and pleasure by the end of their primary education, and therefore a special emphasis is placed on providing all pupils with suitable instruction. Booklets on the importance of reading, which are linked to the reading strategy of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, are available in many places, for example, in nurseries, health centres, with childminders, at after-school clubs and at Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Library. This major collaborative project by the community in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has, among other things, resulted in increased continuity between school levels and laid the groundwork for the importance of literacy as a cornerstone of all learning.<\/p>\n L\u00e6si er lykillinn a\u00f0 fr\u00f3\u00f0leik og \u00feekkingu St\u00f3ri l\u00e6sisdagurinn f\u00f3r fram \u00ed fyrsta skipti \u00ed grunnsk\u00f3lum Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar \u00ed vikunni. Dagskr\u00e1in var tv\u00edskipt og var r\u00e1\u00f0stefnu fyrir umsj\u00f3narkennara \u00ed 1.-4. bekk, s\u00e9rkennara, stu\u00f0ningsfulltr\u00faa, deildarstj\u00f3ra yngsta stigs og sto\u00f0\u00fej\u00f3nustu, stj\u00f3rnendur fr\u00edstundaheimila og sk\u00f3lastj\u00f3rnendur grunnsk\u00f3la Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar streymt \u00ed a\u00f0ra sk\u00f3la b\u00e6jarins fr\u00e1 fyrirlestrarsal Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3la. Fari\u00f0 var yfir ni\u00f0urst\u00f6\u00f0ur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18668,"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-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","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=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_9847.jpg\")
The conference manager was Bjartey Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, a speech and language therapist and project manager at the Education and Public Health Department of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Municipality.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"