Children encouraged to complete their Summer Reading Challenge

Rebecca Proffitt and Laura Bewley from Burntwood Library promoting the Summer Reading Challenge.

Children who have taken on this year’s Summer Reading Challenge are being encouraged to complete it and collect their stickers, certificate and medal.

Thousands of Staffordshire children have been reading books borrowed from their local library during the school holidays.  Now, library staff are encouraging those children yet to complete the challenge, to do so before it ends at the end of August.

The popular reading challenge for children aged four to eleven years old hopes to keep youngsters reading for pleasure over the summer.  This year’s theme is ‘Marvelous Makers’ and so far more than 8,000 children have signed up for the challenge.

Victoria Wilson, Cabinet Member for Communities and Culture at Staffordshire County Council is encouraging children to finish the challenge.                                                

Victoria said:

“It’s brilliant that so many children have chosen to sign up for this year’s summer Reading Challenge.

“We now want to see as many children as possible complete the challenge, so if you’re child hasn’t yet done so, please help them finish it.

“It’s important to keep children engaged with reading over the summer holidays.  It means they can hit the ground running with their classroom books when they start back at school in September.  As a child growing up, I loved books and I appreciate the importance of reading for children’s education.  Our libraries service also recognises the importance of encouraging children and young people to read for pleasure and the earlier they can start the better.  I do hope that more children and parents take the opportunity to sign up and complete the challenge.”

Further details on the Summer Reading Challenge are available on the libraries social media channels.