Term 4 2023 EOHS Library News

Rae Howland — November 15th, 2023

Books can enrich children’s lives beyond measure. Exposure to other people and cultures, whether directly or indirectly, does extraordinary things to children. It opens their heads and crams wonderful things inside. It relaxes their hearts, softens their emotional boundaries, and enriches their minds with alternative ways of thinking and being.

In a world that so often teeters on intolerance and segregation, it’s vital for children to be exposed to different ways of thinking and being. It is also vital that this exposure happens at a young age and stretches across many and varied multicultural experiences; before time, world-weariness, and bias have a chance to take root.

Alas, we can’t always travel willy-nilly around the country or around the world at whim, but something almost as powerful as jumping on a plane and entering other lands, other cultures, other places, and other times, is when we journey through the pages of a book.

Children learn about their world through the context of other people and other beliefs, traditions and cultural practices. We are social beings, so when children value and respect these elements in others, they are much more likely to develop a deeper sense of belonging and community. Feeling connected to others makes us feel valued and respected, and it is also vital for our emotional and mental wellbeing.

Tania McCartney (2016)

From : https://www.scisdata.com/connections/issue-97/exploring-time-and-place-through-childrens-literature/

Term 4 Games Competition

Congratulations to the winners:

Savannah-Lee Dennison

Fipe Maire

Ella Thom

Summer Holiday Reading

Palmerston/Oamaru Library

For Year 7-8 Waitaki District Libraries. Register to get a bag of books and activites. Return your reading log and receive two entries into a prize draw.

Register through the Palmerston Library or by contacting Fiona Kerr. fkerr@waitaki.govt.nz

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