For the love of books
Students enjoyed participating in 10th edition of Emirates literature festival
The quote celebrated at this year’s Emirates Airline of Literature was ‘For the love of books’.
The 10-day programme began from March 1 to March 10 included numerous conferences, competitions and workshops for all ages, This year marked the 10th year of the festival and it surely has been the best so far. This year’s ‘surprise location’ was held in Intercontinental Hotel at Dubai Festival City.
Our school participated in a number of major events which included the Chevron Readers Cup Competition. Three teams enrolled in this competition: one team from the primary and two from the secondary.
The students also took part in a Free Education Day session that was held at The Cultural and Scientific Association Building, Al Mamzar on March 4. The students were divided in two groups — primary and secondary.
Live art event
At the start of the event, the students were given time slots in which they had to participate in a ‘Live Art’ event, where they had to depict on canvases the theme, ‘Memories’. They later
got the opportunity to meet the amazing Anthony Horowitz, writer of the best selling series ‘Alex Rider’.
One of our students had the
privilege of attending the poetry for all competition. In the finals, Bola Ajike recited a poem called ‘Sympathy’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar.