Education ministry holds World Book Day activities in schools

Ministry of Education and Higher Education

The activities of the reading week, organised by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in the ambit of the Reading Olympiad, were launched in the country's schools, and the celebration coincides with the World Book Day and the Arabic Libraries Day. The Reading Olympiad, in which public and private school students participate, includes two main activities: the reading week, and read and interpret competition. The reading week, which is organised in all schools, through various activities, taking into account the precautionary measures and through remote visual communication technology, aims to spread awareness of the importance of books among students, and to instill the habit of reading in them from a young age. The week includes a variety of activities, with both public and private schools participating in all academic levels, where activities vary between storytelling, cultural lectures, poetry recitation competitions, discussion of different books and competitions for drawing the most beautiful cover of a story or book, as well as representative scenes and workshops. Criteria for these events have been set to promote and spread the culture of reading, spread awareness of its importance and the value of books, in addition to promoting books in its various forms (traditional and electronic), directing students to invest their spare time by practicing literacy and cultural activities, enhancing the value of libraries in students' hearts, and highlighting their role in spreading the culture of knowledge and information, consolidating the principle of teamwork, and strengthening co-operation between schools.