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Join The Summer Reading Challenge at Hitchin Library
The Summer Reading Challenge is back at Hitchin Library, encouraging children to read over the holidays. It is the UK’s biggest reading for pleasure programme for children aged 4 to 11, delivered via public libraries – and it’s completely FREE to take part!
This year’s theme is Read to the Beat – celebrating the creative power of music and reading!
At Hitchin Library (and every library in Hertfordshire), we’ll be challenging young people to complete six reading-related challenges during the summer holidays. Everyone who signs-up gets a collector folder in which to keep the stickers that they will receive each time they complete a challenge. When they’ve collected all six stickers, they receive a medal and certificate, and are entered into a prize draw to win a place at a workshop with an acclaimed musician and author. Many schools in Hitchin choose to celebrate the children who have completed the Challenge in an assembly in September.
It all kicks off on Saturday 4 July and runs through until Saturday 5 September, so there is plenty of time to take part, even if you are away going away for a period during the school holidays.
There will also be a variety of other craft and reading activities at the library throughout the summer, including Boomwhacker workshops and our popular Page One children’s reading activity club – pop in to Hitchin Library to find out more.
The Challenge helps broaden reading horizons and maintain reading levels for the next academic year. It’s a fun, free family activity that encourages healthy reading habits and is a great way to keep young people reading over the summer holidays.
It’s completely free to sign-up – just head on down to your local library. Children do need to be a library member to sign-up to the Challenge, but it’s also completely free to join the library.
We can’t wait to see you at Hitchin Library very soon!
