Author: ECL

On Saturday 14^th October two members of Easingwold & District Lions presented book tokens to four of the local children who completed the 2023 Summer Reading Challenge.

This summer, 209 children from the local area signed-up for the Challenge and 171 completed it. Everyone who completed the Challenge will soon be receiving a certificate in addition to the medal and the rewards they collected along the way. Four lucky finishers were chosen at random by Lucy, our Duke of Edinburgh Gold volunteer, to receive book tokens kindly donated by Easingwold Lions.

Congratulations to everyone who completed the Challenge. We absolutely loved your excitement, enthusiasm and commitment and cannot wait to do it all again next year! Thanks to Easingwold & District Lions for their much-appreciated support.

The Challenge may be over this year but our wonderful junior library with its amazing selection of books for children of all ages is there for everyone to enjoy and its free!

In the photo – Back Row L to R: Lucy, Lion Linda, and Lion Kate. Front Row L to R: Daniel, Jax, Honor and Joslyn.

The Challenge is a national scheme offered by The Reading Agency and organized in this area by North Yorkshire Council in partnership with the Easingwold Community Library. It’s aim is to encourage children aged from 4 to 11 years to keep reading during the summer holidays to maintain their hard-won reading skills.

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Our programme of summer fun and games in support of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge, ‘Ready. Set. READ!’, has been hugely successful. All were fully subscribed and we’re very pleased and proud to say that everyone had a very good time indeed.

Wednesday 2^nd August saw county sports coach Joe McKechnie lead a Boccia and New Age Kurling taster.  Boccia (say ‘botcha’) is a Paralympic sport which involves throwing, kicking or rolling coloured balls nearest to a white jack.  New Age Kurling is similar to the classic winter ice sport, though Kurling stones run on ball bearings. Fortunately this was an indoor session because the weather was truly awful. The children (and the adults) had a fantastic morning trying their hands at these fun and accessible games.

If you were around the Market Place on Tuesday 8^th August you may well have heard the exotic sounds of samba drumming coming from the library. Mums, dads, grandparents and children all learned to drum together, led by drumming ace Martyn Cresswell. In a very short time they found themselves playing a wonderful range of rhythms, sometimes accompanied by other percussion and singing. Amazing sounds.   

On Tuesday 22^nd August we were lucky enough to have artist Chris Geeson hosting a craft session. Fourteen children and their carers took full advantage of Chris’s expert guidance and seemingly bottomless boxes of craft materials to make magical magnetic fishing games, complete with fish, the odd mermaid, fishing rods and fish tanks.

THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who took part and to our hard-working library volunteers who supported each of the sessions. We are extremely grateful to Martyn Cresswell, Joe McKechnie and Chris Geeson for providing such memorable experiences for local children and their families.

Storytime has returned to Easingwold Community Library after the summer holidays.

So pull on those comfy seven-league boots, shoulder your faithful old knapsack, and install the magic bean app on your phone. Then stroll your wide-eyed and unsuspecting pre-schoolies along to the library to enjoy one of our lovely volunteers bringing a children’s tale or two to life.

Storytime – every Thursday from 10.15am to 11.00am from 7th September and during term time.  It’s FREE and all are welcome. There’s no need to book – just come along. We’re pushchair-friendly too – park them inside the library.

Reading Well for Teens; books and digital resources to boost your confidence and help you to understand your feelings.

All have been carefully chosen by teens health and wellbeing experts to help you manage your emotions and cope with difficult times. Read them on your own or talk about them with someone you trust.

Pop into the community library for a Reading Well for Teens leaflet. Visit reading-well.org.uk/teens to find out more.