Libraries crumped with exiciting extraordinary design and fascinating book contents will deifnitely put a cheerful smile on most students’ faces as they serve as the modern banks of well-polished general information, facts and figures as well as fiction stories.

Speaking to the Vance Tan Online Saturday was Mr. Alan Fletcher, an English educator at PJN Secondary School, researcher of the Centre For Brunei Teachers (CFBT). He told us that his effort done to attempt to improve the literacy rate amongst the inquisitive young minded students is by taking them frequently to the school’s library with a teacher guiding them most of the time especially during which the students have difficulties in their reading and pronunciation.

On top of that, Mr Fletcher also added that the library should be well-maintained and kept so that is remains to be a tidy, eye-pleasing floor for the students to mingle around with interesting reading materials such as newspapers, magazines and books. Confidently, he also strongly recommends students to read the Brunei Times as the range of vocabulary and punctuation range is wide and complex.

Latest happenings: Meragang Beach Cleaning Campaign is getting more and more exciting with 80 participants (as of 9.20 am) along the Meragang Beach, doing a quite massive cleaning job to save Brunei’s ecosystem. As of 9.52 am, they’ve collected about 50 bags of thrash. Thanks to Zayn Sabri of Pelangi FM for the updates. To listen to Pelangi FM live, visit their official website, www.pelangifm.com.

Congratulations to Nur Diana Suhaili who has walked away with a voucher for the brain teasers segment contributed by Rizqun Cofee House this morning during the Hello Brunei Darussalam show with Zayn Sabri. The voucher can be collected either on Tuesday or Wednesday during office hours at Radio Television Brunei reception.



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