Grand Opening for Students

Drum roll, please! After months of preparation, we opened the doors of our beautiful new Library Media Center to students last week. Each class joined a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate their first official visit to the library. 

Excitement was in the air and many students expressed their delight and appreciation for the new space. Highlights for students included our cozy, relaxing reading spaces, our self-checkout stations, our lego tables and game stations. 

Students are enjoying trying out the ten different types of seating and determining which is their favourite for various types of learning. We also explored the Flex Room, a multi-purpose, flexible learning space available for students and teachers, and the Green Room, which supports media and small group work.

Students began to investigate the different book zones in our library: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Everybody. Favourite series and topics can also be found in browsing bins and we have plenty of display areas for offering suggestions. Our collection is arranged to make browsing and searching student-friendly.

When our community members enter our Library Media Center, we hope to inspire a feeling that something special and exciting is happening here at FISW. Our library is a community hub that reflects who we are as a school and as individuals. We look forward to shaping our library together as a community to build an engaging and dynamic learning space.