This year's Summer Reading Challenge for children — "Team Read" — ran from July to September 2008. Hundreds of children joined in, reading lots of books and collecting their bronze, silver and gold medals along the way.
- Everybody who completed the Summer Reading Challenge will get a certificate.
- Don't worry if you didn't complete the Challenge, the important thing is that you had fun and enjoyed some great stories!
We launched this year's Summer Reading Challenge with two library sessions for schools with special guest performers:
- Tom Palmer at the Wheatsheaf Library on Tuesday 17 June; and
- Craig Bradley at Junction Community Library on Wednesday 18 June.
All primary schools in the Borough were invited to send four Year 5 children to the events as "ambassadors." They enjoyed quizzes or a performance poetry session and were each given a Team Read pack to show to the rest of the school.
Penalty shoot-out at the Wheatsheaf Library
After his talk about books and reading, Tom Palmer pitted schools against each other in an exciting 'Penalty Shoot-Out Quiz.' The reward for each correct answer was the opportunity to take a penalty kick against Ray 'The Cat' Stearn.
Poetry workout at Junction Library
Craig Bradley's physical brand of performance poetry - with the emphasis on performance - got the children involved in wordplay galore (can you see what is special about the word SWIMS ?) and quite a few leeks.
Boys Into Books
We also took the opportunity to introduce teachers to "Boys Into Books," a collection of books aimed at boys in the 5—11 age group, available for loan to primary school classes.
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