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“We read to know we're not alone.”   William Nicholson,  Shadowlands “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”    Harper Lee,  To Kill a Mockingbird “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”    Voltaire Promoting talks, Reading circles, creative workshops enhances our minds and our self expression to a level that allows our dreams to reach a much more happier place. Schools should commit some of the syllabus work to that matter, so that self fulfilment should take place and embrace students and staff into a common ground of well being. Having this in mind, Language department has prepared a week full of enriching activities for a wide audience. Today, in the morning,  we had a workshop of storytelling using Animaker. In the afternoon, fans of manga and anime, Japanese cartoons, talked about their common passion, describing the plot, character building and ...

  We started to promote afternoon talks in our library regarding reading habits, cultural interests, to engage students, teachers and other staff in positive aspects of our lives. Reading is not the primary issue but along the way someone share a text, present a good moment reading or discussing a good movie that led them to the book behind the screen. This coming week we will do our 3rd and 4th talks. One is dedicated to manga, the Japanese cartoons, and the other to books that they want to read.  It has been quite interesting to promote these moments. We never know beforehand who will turn up, but the joy in their eyes, the feeling go wholeness has been a really interesting discovery and perception. This might seem strange, but our students are over 16 years and ours is a vocational school. Usually, they say they don't like reading. I hope we are about to change it. Cristina Basílio