Ooops.

 So a lot has happened, and I have been very remiss in my blog updates!

Just a quick recap of the missing months:

April: We begin the second annual Shrewsbury Asia Poetry Competition. Lots of poetry being read and written in the library, especially during our after school You-Time.

May: Joshua Siegal zoomed in with our students and then served as guest judge for the SAPC. 

June: End of the year with celebrations, the Masked Singer (in which three members of the library team successfully (?) sang "In the Jungle"), and our final book fair of the year.

After a nice holiday, the school year began again!

August: we had a huge number of applicants for the coveted library monitor positions. So many, in fact, that we already have our Term 2 library monitors in place and eager to start in January! 

September: We had full lessons in PrePrep, Junior, and Senior libraries for the entire month of September! 

Whew! Now that the update is over, here's the actual blog post.

Each year, we begin receiving interest in students working on their Duke of Edinburgh International Award (Bronze) to volunteer in the library. These volunteers work in Senior and Junior Libraries before or after school until their service hours are complete. Our senior school volunteer spots are almost all filled now! These students are a great deal of help to the library team.

We have also been busy welcoming two new team members! As always, the library is a busy place and we all have a lot of tasks to do each day. (One of the reasons I fell behind on my updates!)

Now, we are planning our 17 October visit with Scott Riley and Prasit Hemmin. Scott wrote the book, The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field. This non-fiction book won the Siam Book Awards (Younger Reader category) for 2023! Prasit is featured in the book since he and his friends built the floating field in southern Thailand when they were children. 

The Junior and Senior school SLACs have had their first meeting. (So  you don't have to look back in time, SLAC = Student Library Advisory Council). The J-SLAC will be having a special activity with Scott and Prasit. The S-SLAC is working on planning the Term 1 Library Contest.

On top of that, we are planning another Late Night at the Library...a mystery game this time! We also have Fully Booked Week/World Languages Week planning underway, another author visit in February, book fairs on the calendars, and the hosting of Kids' Lit Quiz Thailand in March! 

For the library team, at least, the library is not a quiet, relaxing place to only read. Too much other things to do! (And we love it!)