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Students from Kaipara Flats School show off their new English dictionaries.
Thirty-one Year 5 and 6 students from Kaipara Flats School each received a Rotary dictionary at a special presentation last month, attended by Warkworth Rotarians Valda Kerekes and Joe Koppens.
“We had heard of one school suggesting students did not need dictionaries given the advance of the internet, but when the students were asked, they insisted they wanted them. It seems there’s still a place for the real thing,” Joe said.
“The teachers were also gleefully enthusiastic, and a class of Year 4 observers are now jealously awaiting their turn next year.”
It possibly helped that the dictionaries contained more than 1000 colourful illustrations, and each was inscribed with a student’s name. Students are allowed to take their dictionary home.
Kaipara Flats principal Debbie Hamar says the donation has rejuvenated the student’s interest in using physical dictionaries.
“The kids are absolutely thrilled with the dictionaries, they’re in class using them all the time,” she says.
The dictionary initiative is part of Rotary International’s goal of developing literacy worldwide.
So far, more than 110,000 dictionaries have been distributed throughout New Zealand.
