Your Future Is Calling! Help us set up Library

A school needs a library because libraries support the school’s work of literacy and education. A school library is useful in literacy work from the earliest stage because it encourages good reading habits to be formed when children are young. All teachers should aim to stimulate children’s curiosity about books and to encourage students to start loving the written word. One of the best ways of doing this is to set up a school library with a wide variety of information and fiction books. The vocabulary range of these books should suit all skill levels, so that even reluctant students will be able to read what they want, when they want, for their studies. A library should also have stock that is fun to read. When students discover that soccer yearbooks, novels and magazines are also in the library they may start to spend some of their leisure time reading. The more students read, the faster their English will improve. This will help them in their studies and when they leave school. The school library supports the student’s studies.

We have identifies 3 such schools that need help with library. The three schools are Government higher primary schools Veerenahalli, Doddabanahalli, Avalahalli.

The project will set up a library for the schools with wide variety of books esp. English books and set up a committee for library. Also we will have regular library sessions for the students, track their levels of reading and the progress.

School library:

•Encourages curiosity, innovation and problem-solving. It is integral to the cultural and social life of the school. The school library is a central point for all kinds of reading, cultural activities, access to information, knowledge building, deep thinking and lively discussion.

•Are places for learning and thinking. They play a key role in supporting and developing literacy and the enjoyment of reading.

•The research into school library impact shows higher student performance:

>Improved reading test scores

> Higher academic achievement, and

>positive attitudes towards learning