Al-Mabarrat schools and cultural centers opened “National Reading Week”, launching a series of innovative cultural and educational events.
According to the organizers, the week aimed to “plant the seeds of a love of reading in students' hearts, develop their language and social skills, and strengthen the value of investing time in the company of books”.
The activities ranged from inspiring lectures, among them “How Good It Is to Live Responsibility” by Ms. Batoul Chahine and “How Do I Choose My Friends” by Ms. Sara Al-Dor. Mr. Bilal Chamaouni also shed light on “the concept of love in Islam” and its human values in an interactive workshop.
Students engaged enthusiastically in absorbing activities such as the “Emotional and Social Intelligence” session supervised by Ms. Suzanne Chaito, and the workshop “Written Language: From Letter to Word” presented by the specialist Nour Jaber, in addition to exploring “Grammatical Parsing from the Holy Quran”, and the “Minds Challenge” activity, whose discussion and analysis presentations varied before a judging panel.
In a festive atmosphere, students set off on “tours among the bookshelves” and immersed themselves in “reading sessions” inside classrooms and in the open air, forming new friendships with “book friends”. They also competed in engaging “cultural competitions” and enjoyed purposeful “theatrical segments” that highlighted the importance of reading and the need to step away from the dominance of screens.
Students showed their creativity in “art activities” using collage, cutting and pasting, and engaged with the workshop “Learn with Numbers”, which aimed to teach numbers in an enjoyable way. They had the chance to enjoy “purposeful stories” carrying messages about accepting others and not insulting or bullying anyone over difference, gave free rein to their pens in “creative writing sessions”, listened to the magic of tales with a “storyteller” who visited their schools especially for them, and made “visits to public libraries” that opened wider horizons of knowledge for them.
The week was organized by the librarians of Al-Mabarrat schools in cooperation with the Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Public Library. It “comes within Al-Mabarrat's educational and cultural vision, which seeks to raise an aware, cultured generation that loves learning and knowledge”, according to the head of library supervision at Al-Mabarrat schools, Thuraya Hashem.
