Are you ready for a challenge? Then join our Team Read this summer.
- Register FREE at any Barnet library from 12 July and join in the 2008 Summer Reading Challenge.
- This year’s theme is sport, but you don’t have to be an athlete to compete,
- You just need to enjoy a reading challenge.
- Read three books and you will receive a Team Read medal. Kick six books into touch and you will have completed the challenge and be awarded a Team Read kit bag and certificate.
- Every team reader who completes the challenge will be entered into a prize draw.
The Premier League Reader
If reading six books is just not challenging enough, you can go further and join the Premier League.
- Read another six books and complete an exciting reading, writing, ICT, craft and physical task to join the squad.
- Then you will be presented with a Premier League Reader certificate and voucher. When you pay to borrow one audio/visual item, this voucher will entitle you to borrow another one FREE of charge.
- Team Read begins on the 12 July and finishes on the 13 September.
- Make sure you read your 6 books and collect your prizes.
For further details about Team Read contact:
Hannah Richens (Development Manager: Children and Education)
Tel: 020 8359 7779
Email:hannah.richens@barnet.gov.uk
Summer Reading Challenge Events
- We are planning lots of different events at all Barnet libraries. You are welcome to join in at any library. All the events are free of charge but do visit or telephone the library to be assured of a place. Due to limited space, some libraries may require you to have a ticket to take part.
- Download the full list of events
(PDF 113KB)
- See the descriptions below for details of the types of event
- And ….look out for the Mobile Library as it makes special summer visits to Barnet’s Children’s Centres. [see the Events and activities page]
Sporty Felt Game
- Make and play a new sporty version of noughts and crosses.
- Suitable for children of all ages.
Meet Antony Lishak author of the football story Henry’s Boots
- Suitable for children aged 6+
Toddlerobics
- Action songs and dance.
- Suitable for children aged 2 to 3 years.
Olympic Treasure Trail
- Make a marathon effort to follow the clues and find the hidden sports treasure in the library.
- Suitable for children aged 6+
A Question of Sport
- How much do you know about sport? Test yourself in our special quizzes.
- Suitable for children aged 7+
Olympic Torch and Relay Game
- Create and play an Olympics style Snakes and Ladders game
Create your own Flick Books
- Create a sport book that comes to life!
- Suitable for children aged 5+
Create a Sporting Frieze
- Get creative and help to produce a variety of different friezes for display in your library, from extreme sports to the ultimate Olympic Stadium and sports from around the world. Each library will be making a different frieze.
- Suitable for children aged 5+
Crafty Olympics
- Make winners’ wreaths, flags and medals and design an Olympic torch
- Suitable for children aged 5+
Super Sport Invention
- Invent a super sport. How would you play it? What equipment would you need? When the only limit is your imagination, you decide the rules!
- Suitable for children aged 7+
Play for your Club
- Sporty quiz and football game
- Suitable for children aged 8+
Playstation Pizzazz
- Pit yourself against the best. Test your skills in our sporting games on PS3.
- Suitable for children aged 5+
Sporty puppets
- Come along to make a sporty puppet character to take home
- Suitable for children of all ages.
Sporty Web Fun
- Check out the Team Read site and other sporty websites at the library.
- Suitable for children aged 7+
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