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BIG COLOUR

Fri 18 Nov 2022

What a wonderful creative day exploring colour, how we used it and the work of Wassily Kandinsky. We just love how we can express ourselves on paper. It is so important to have a go when it comes to art, there are so many people who say they can't when actually we are all artists when we express ourselves.

Summer Reading Challenge 22 Highlights

Thu 17 Nov 2022 Jan Hall

Shropshire Libraries have sent the following message:

We would like to thank everyone for their hard work over the summer. Thanks to your enthusiasm, we have had another great Summer Reading Challenge. Please find attached an infographic that includes some of our headline figures for 2022.

Gadgeteers vs Wild World Heroes

In addition to those headline figures, we are thrilled to report that 1398 more children took part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge as compared to 2021 and our completion rate in libraries remains at an impressive 61%.

Although SRC participation figures are great, most important for us is the number of children who joined the library over the summer in order to take part. This figure rose from 282 in 2021 to 508 this summer. Also, we know there were all kinds of wonderful family events being held in our libraries and, as a result, 882 more people enjoyed in-person SRC events this summer – quite an achievement!

Thanks again for all that you do to make the Summer Reading Challenge a huge success.