English Library Project

In-charge/s: Cai Yuxiang Edmund, Leong Jing Seng Thomas

Job scope:

• To create an English library, consisting of textbooks and storybooks for the designated village school there in Vietnam, Sapa.
• To furnish the surrounding area of the library by putting up posters and having tables and chairs around to create a conducive library environment.
• To sort out and arrange the books into shelves (either already available there or improvised by using poles, ropes and planks available there) and index them properly for easy reference by the students of the school.
• To create a sustainable borrowing system for the books.
• To ensure that the library can be sustained by them even after we leave.

Location: Sapa town primary school

For: Vietnamese children of 10-12 years old

How?:

• Collection of English books will be done by everybody from at least a teacher (more are gladly welcomed) each. Such books can be also collected from home or from relative or any other sources.
• Such books must be of nursery level and cannot be higher than Primary Three level so that the students of the school are able to comprehend and these books brought by us there can then be of value and use to them.
• Old PETS Primary school English textbooks can be collected from our primary school's bookshops.
• Books collected will be carefully chosen to be brought there so that the baggage weight limit can be fully made use of and taken up by books that are of high value to the students of the school.
• The carefully chosen books will then be sorted out into textbooks and storybooks and index will be done before the trip as time available there in the school will not be sufficient.
• The borrowing system will be set-up by attaching to each book an expiry date slip where the expiry date of the borrowing period (about two weeks after the borrowing date) is to be written down on the slip by the student or teacher in-charge and a borrowing list held by the teacher-in-charge would also be printed for the students to fill in their names and the titles of the books that they borrowed so as to be able to keep track of all books borrowed from the library. (Will be further discussed. Probably books shall not be borrowed out of the library at all but students can view the books within the library as a class during lessons or as an individual.)
• Posters will be bought from Vietnam using the money raised from the sale of the school magazines during the Secondary One Open House as the posters available there would have English language and Vietnamese language so that the students there can comprehend with more ease.

Things to take note of:

• Students of the school there have a low level of English language competence so books have to be written in simple English language and they have to be of nursery level and no higher than Primary Three level.