The summer holidays are almost upon us and you know what that means? It’s time for the East Lothian Libraries Summer Reading Challenge! This year we’ll take part in the national challenge created by The Reading Agency. The theme is Wild World Heroes and we couldn’t be more excited to get started. Hopefully your children will enjoy the activities and prizes we have planned. Read on to see what we’re particularly excited about!
- With some libraries still closed, we have added more places for children to join the challenge! This will make it so much easier for them to get involved. Libraries have teamed with our local museums to allow children to join while visiting their sites and our pop up libraries will also be accepting sign ups. Keep an eye on our social media pages for more information
- The challenge, as always, is to read six books over the summer break. This seems like a silly thing to be excited about but we do love our books! And seeing children choose books and then coming into the library to tell us all about them once they’ve finished is one of the truly joyous parts of our job! This year, children are able to borrow books, read their own books at home or read books online to complete the challenge.
- We’re hosting a photography competition! We will split this into two age categories: 5 - 8yrs and 9 - 12yrs. The theme of the reading challenge is Wildlife Heroes and so we are proposing a theme of “East Lothian Wildlife”. Children can submit their entries by email, post or hand into their local library, please make sure they have added their name and contact details to their entry. We’ve got an independent judge lined up to make the final decisions! We look forward to seeing all of the entries! Bugs, animals, birds, insects – all are welcome!!
- Our branches will be planning their own craft/activity sessions to take place over the summer break. We’ve been hearing some of the ideas being floated already and there’s some good ones out there! When these are finalised, they will be announced by the branches via posters and on our social media pages. Places will most likely still be limited so please watch out for booking information.
- Finally, the best bit! Every child who completes the challenge will be entitled to a fantastic certificate! If they have taken part wholly online using their own books, without visiting a library branch, they will be able to print this certificate off at home. Children taking part through the libraries - using library stock online or physical borrowing – will receive their certificate at school once they return from the break.
The challenge runs from Friday 18th June to
Saturday 28th August and children are welcome to sign up at any
point. There will be prizes available for library participants and lots of fun
activities to take part in throughout the summer holidays. We look forward to
seeing families come back into our branches! We are currently still open for
browsing by appointment so please call ahead on 01620 827827 and ask for your
relevant library to book a slot.
No comments:
Post a Comment