Book Week @ SAS

Shanti Asiatic School celebrated Book Week from 13-18 August. It was very colourful and interesting event which was held at the school campus.  It was a unique event and the whole assembly area was filled with books, also the whole area was fully decorated with tri-colour flags and inspirational posters to feel the freedom of joy and patriotism in each and every child studying in the school  as the theme of the book week was “India ‘s Independence Day”. 

Shanti Asiatic School and Scholastic India had collaboratively organized this event, the core was  to encourage the children to love reading and rediscover the wonderful world of books.

 

It was a fantastic opportunity for children and staff member of the school to celebrate our 66th year of freedom through literature, History and different genre of books. The children were given the opportunity to enjoy, share and spend time with the books kept as display.

Talking about the benefit of the Book week Sandhya Uday, the Vice - Principal of the School said, there are some important ingredients to this Independence celebration: to encourage more reading habits among students, browsing the latest books and knowing new authors and the added value for the students to get familiar with some of the leading publisher and award winning famous authors.

 

As the part Book Week, many books of prominent Indian authors like Ruskin Bond,  R.K.Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, J.P.Narayan, S.C.Bose were kept for the children to read and enjoy. Most of the Books were on Indian Freedom fighters and on war of India’s Independence which was kept as the main display for the students to observe  read with feeling of patriotism  about the greatness of the Indian heroes and their struggle to get freedom.

There were also plenty of story books for all age children from around the world which was one of highlights of this time’s book week.

Shanti Asiatic School still believes that Books remain central to students' learning, alongside digital media.  Books can empower, inspire and make students more creative and divergent thinker.