Children launch challenge

CHILDREN from Barley Close Community Primary School helped launch this year’s South Gloucestershire Summer Reading Challenge.

Pupils took part in an educational workshop run by the University of the West of England’s School of Engineering at Downend Library to kick off the holiday reading event, joined by council chair Mike Drew, cabinet member for libraries Leigh Ingham and Joshua Warren from UWE.

Libraries and the Reading Agency have partnered with the Youth Sport Trust for this year’s challenge, called ‘Ready, Set, Read!’, which has a sports, games and play theme to highlight the positive impact that reading, keeping active and having fun have on a child’s development.

From now until September 9 children aged between four and 11 can sign up at their local library and collect a free goodie bag, then read books of their choice over the summer holidays and collect stickers to complete a collectors’ card and win a medal and certificate.

See the libraries panel on the left for more details.