(EMU) – St. Kitts, January 27th, 2017: The Sandy Point Primary School sprung into action as it celebrated its first ever Literacy Week, under the theme; ‘Swing into Literacy; Lights! Camera! Read!’
During the week, 16th-20th January, the staff and students celebrated literacy by engaging in various daily child friendly initiatives. Namely, t-shirt day, tie/scarf day, sock day and the widely participated career day, where students were asked to attend school dressed to depict their intended career choice in the future.
Librarian and liaison to the Student Council, Ms. Nicole Williams Francis, assisted the Student Council, which initially came up with the idea of a literacy week, with the formulation and implementation of the week’s activities. Ms. Williams Francis along with Ms. Itchel Belboda, Coordinator of literacy week employed not only the students but their parents and guardians to make this first ever literacy week a resounding success and take the time to sit and read.
“We requested that the parents spend time with their children reading, making it a family affair. While they lay in bed read with them, looking at a movie, turn it off for a few minutes and allow the children to read with you or listen to you read,” Ms Belboda said.
The week culminated on Friday 20th January with a march through the streets of Sandy Point. With a collective goal to make reading a family affair, the staff and students took on the challenge to not only celebrate literacy within the school, but the entire Sandy Point community. Visits to members of the community who are shut-ins were done, just as a check up and of course to read with to them.
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