Library News

WEEK OF CODING

Although we missed the dates to be a part of the official Africa Week of Code which the UNESCO Institution for Information Technologies in Education in partnership with many other NGOs sponsor each year, the AISL secondary library is happy to sponsor a week of coding activities from Monday 12 December to Thursday 15 December after school from 14:30-15:15. Students in G6-G12 (and their parents) are welcome to stop by any of our coding stations to play with our DJI Robomasters, watch a Lego Mindstorm Robot demonstration, try their luck with Scratch or do any number of the Hour of Coding activities we will have available. The second semester of CCAs will have ended so we hope to have many secondary students bring their school laptops or iPads and stop by to have some fun. There will also be a chance for secondary teachers to sign up and bring their classes during the school week to the library. The stations will be led by G7-G12 students from the STEM club and other tech-savvy students. We hope to see you sometime during that week!
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Our Second Book Swap of the Year

Our first book swap in September was well-advertised and a rousing success with many people swapping books. Our second book swap on 18 November was not well-advertised and we only had one patron bring a book to swap. We will try to do a better job of advertising for our third book swap at the end of March. Thanks to Shailja and her daughter for their help in managing the event and also their insight as to why there were so few patrons this time round. Here at AISL, we aim to learn from our mistakes and so you can expect some amazing publicity surrounding our next book swap.
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Camera Shy G9s

When asked to send us a picture of their advisory for an activity we were doing, the above picture is what the 9As did. Some of the students are hard to recognize in their whiteboard sketch portraits but we applaud them for their creativity.