October? International School Library Month in the Mikes Kelemen High School Library!

This year is better from the others, because we have a whole month to celebrate the school libraries! This means a lot of work, but a lot of satisfaction too.
The ISLM theme for this year -Literacy and Learning at Your School Library- inspire us to do the following projects in October:

1. International Bookmark Exchange Project
Our partner is Creative Secondary School from Hong Kong / China
We participate with 62 students in this project.

2. International E-mail Exchange Project
Our partner is Sanford Middle School / Alabama / USA
We participate with 28 students from the 6th grade in this project. Each of our student will have an American partner. Each Thursday we (the two school librarians) shall send a topic and the partners will work together

3. School Librarian Meeting.
We -the Covasna County Association- shall celebrate together with the Harghita County Association the ISLM. This will be on 31th of October. The two librarian associations are sections of the Romanian Librarian Association (ABR).

About the partner schools:

Creative Secondary School from Hong Kong / China

Contact: Sarah Ho Teacher Librarian
Basic Facts:
- New Co-educational DSS secondary school opened in Sept 2006
- English Medium of Instruction (EMI)
- Chinese taught through Putonghua- Full capacity 30 classes, 5 classes / year, 900 students
- High teacher/student ratio at 1:15
- Small class sizes (below 30)
- IB Candidate School for Middle Years Programme (MYP)
- Choice of new Hong Kong Diploma or IB Diploma in the senior school
- Implementing New Hong Kong Secondary Curriculum through the MYP framework
- Vertical House system for pastoral care and academic schemes
- Comprehensive Scholarship and Fee Remission schemes

More about this school: http://www.css.edu.hk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Sanford Middle School / Alabama / USA

Contact: Patti Henderson Media Specialist
Basic facts:
- Enrollment: approximately 710 students
- Grades: 5th - 8th
- Core Curriculum: English/Language Arts, Math (Algebra I optional for eligible 8th graders), Science, Social Studies, and Physical Education
- 7th & 8th grade Enrichment: 7th grade: drama & reading/writing workshop
- 8th grade: career technology & keyboarding Remedial reading or math Chorus Band Annual Staff

Homepage: http://sanford.lcm.schoolinsites.com/
About the school library: http://sanford.lcm.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=