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Al Etihad
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Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre launches ‘Child Reads' initiative
12 June 2025 17:22 ABU DHABI (WAM)The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), in collaboration with the College of Education at the United Arab Emirates University, launched the 'Child Reads' event on Thursday at the Abu Dhabi Children's Library within the Cultural event offers children a delightful reading experience that reflects the spirit of the Year of Community and aligns with the campaign's objectives of promoting the Arabic language and emphasising the importance of reading in nurturing a generation that embraces it as a daily initiative, which hosts around 70 children, accompanied by their parents, aims to instil a love of reading in young minds, encourage family engagement, and equip teachers with the tools, strategies, and resources to foster early reading features immersive reading sessions designed to stimulate imagination, enhance language abilities, and promote meaningful family interaction, underlining the vital role of shared reading in early childhood female students from the College of Education are participating in delivering the activities, divided into two groups. Each student will lead a storytelling session and guide a related activity in small groups of five session runs for 45 minutes, with additional time allocated for transitioning between complementary activities. The students accompanied the children during these transitions, ensuring a smooth and well-organised experience in an inspiring environment that encourages reading and event features interactive oral storytelling sessions followed by enrichment activities led by students specialising in early childhood education and special activities aim to highlight the importance of reading in daily life, strengthen bonds among children, families, and educators, and nurture curiosity and a love of learning, as well as an enduring passion for event consists of seven themed stations, each presenting a different story with a unique setting tailored to the nature of its accompanying activity. Each story will be supported by visual aids and interactive materials to help reinforce the story's educational and moral messages in the child's the storytelling sessions, children have the opportunity to explore the books on their own, examine the illustrations and interpret each story from their own activity is designed to encourage engagement with non-verbal narratives, enhancing visual storytelling skills and enabling children to create and record their own stories based on the images using Centre has selected a collection of stories written by accomplished female authors specialising in children's literature. These include My Trait, Not a Monster, and Where Did the Black Chicken Go? by Amal Nasser; Dad & The Box of Happiness by Reem Al Gurg; and Zack le maniaque (Saroj Alghanoj), Salomé la pressée (Sula Al Ajula), and Cassandre la gourmande (Fola Al Akola) by Odile Bailloeul. The latter two titles were published by the Kalima Translation Project under the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language addition, the event features an intensive workshop for parents and participating educators, focusing on key guidelines for reading to young children and fostering a love of by experts from the College of Education, the session offers practical advice and strategies to attract children to reading and establish it as a regular and cherished habit.
Gulf Insider
14-04-2025
- Gulf Insider
Mother Arrested, Held In Police Cell In UK, For Confiscating Her Own Daughters' iPads
A mother was arrested and jailed for seven hours after she confiscated iPads from her own children because she wanted them to concentrate on their homework. Vanessa Brown, 50, a history teacher was arrested & held for seven-and-a-half hours by @SurreyPolice for stealing 2 iPads. They were at her mother's house, who was also questioned. She had taken them away from her two daughters so they could concentrate on their homework.… — David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) April 11, 2025 It's the latest insane story of police overreach from the backwards UK, where stabbings are just an everyday occurrence and robberies are not even investigated, but people saying mean words about the 'wrong' things are thrown in prison. Now responsible parenting is the target. The LBC report notes: History teacher Vanessa Brown, 50, spent seven-and-a-half hours in a custody cell on March 26 this year, following a claim she had stolen two iPads which were traced to her mother's house in Cobham, Surrey. Yet it transpired that the two devices belonged to her daughters, and Ms Brown had merely confiscated them to encourage them to focus on their schoolwork, a fact Surrey Police has now acknowledged. 'I find it quite traumatic even talking about this now,' Ms Brown recalled. 'At no point did they [the officers] think to themselves, 'Oh, this is a little bit of an overreaction for a moment, confiscating temporarily her iPads and popping over to her mum's to have a coffee'. It was just a complete overreaction. It isn't made exactly clear who reported the iPads stolen, but it seems to have been the ex-partner of the woman. Every day we see examples of utterly terrible ex husband reported the mother of his children for stealing their daughter's first thought of any thinking police officer should be this is not a police should have been made robustly clear to… — Howard Jones (@hjoneshojo) April 11, 2025 In any case, why on Earth did police waste their time on this? Isn't there enough actual crime to deal with? Surely this is a dystopian novel. — Danishova (@Danishova) April 11, 2025 The police also prevented the woman from speaking to her own children following the accusation. They also pulled one of the children out of school for questioning. Click here to read more.
