These are aimed at Children aged 9+, they are really lively and good fun and we have activities before hand and hot chocolate and mince pies. Come along to the Science and Media Museum on 12/12/19 starting at 5pm. See link below for more information and tickets.
https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/royal-institution-christmas-lecture-live-screening
Today (06/11/19) we are hosting a learner celebration Event at Kala Sangam, St Peters House, Bradford.
Learners have worked hard to achieve their qualifications and we want this to be recognised. This year we have seen some fantastic progress and achievements. We continue to be good provider with Ofsted delivering quality teaching & learning.
There will also be the opportunity for learners to collect their certificate on the day. We have evaluated and summarised all the courses delivered in schools, so attendees can read the wonderful comments from our learners. There are also areas that can be improved with your discussion and support.
We would like to thank you for all your effort, hard work and continued support.
Family Learning and Adult Skills Services
26 OCTOBER – 3 NOVEMBER
JOIN US FOR LOTS OF FAMILY FUN
#BradFamFest19
Festival Highlights
The Festival is full of FREE amazing activities which take place just before and throughout half term in venues across the district. To find out more contact your local venue. All activities are for parents and children to take part in together.
BRADFORD LIBRARIES
Retro Gaming Experience
Does your dad remember Donkey Kong?
Did grandma play Pac Man?
Come along and play the games they used to play at our Retro Gaming Experience. All ages welcome!
City Library, free, drop in
Super Saturday 26 October, 12noon – 4pm
Super Saturday 2 November, 12noon – 4pm
BRADFORD LIBRARIES
Books Around The World competition
Win brand new children’s books! Take a photo using the theme “Books Around The World” and upload it to the family learning festival facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/familylearningfestival/
We will direct message the winner.
Prizes for creativity and innovation.
BRADFORD LIBRARIES
Around The World Super Saturdays
We’re going around the world at City Library for Family Learning Week. Take a trip with Julia Donaldson’s book The Snail & The Whale. Make storytelling wheels. Be part of our round the world retro gaming experience. Build oodles of Lego/Duplo with Bricks4Kidz. Help to create a giant Globe on the windows of City Library! Creative face painting also available!
City Library, free, drop in
Super Saturday 26 October, 11am – 3pm
Super Saturday 2 November, 11am – 3pm
BRADFORD LIBRARIES
Bricks4Kidz
Build your own city around the world with Bricks4Kidz. There will be oodles of Duplo and Lego to enjoy, the only limit is your imagination!
City Library, free, drop in
Super Saturday 26 October, 12noon – 4pm
Super Saturday 2 November, 12noon – 4pm
BRADFORD LIBRARIES
Jack & The Flum Flum Tree
Meet the characters, build a boat, become the crew and solve problems along the way using items from Granny’s patchwork sack. Explore the book with Mud Pie Arts. Use your imagination, work as a team, advise Jack and extend the story.
Free, suitable for 3-6 years. Booking is essential. Friday 1 November
Holme Wood Library – 10am
Wyke Library – 1pm
BRADFORD LIBRARIES
Read Around The World with Marcelo Mouse at Wyke Library
Listen to the story in your own aeroplane box and then make a fantastic 3D world mobile craft. Take home your reading passport and read the books based around the world to win your very own “Reading Around The World” certificate.
Free, drop in
Tuesday 29 October, Wyke Library, 2pm
BRADFORD LIBRARIES
The Snail & The Whale stories and story wheel making workshop
Listen to the story and then make a great story wheel for hours of storytime fun!
Free, drop in
Tues 22 Oct, Burley Library, 1.45pm & 3.30pm
Mon 28 Oct, Baildon Library, 3.45pm
Tues 29 Oct, Shipley Library, 2pm
Weds 30 Oct, Keighley Library, 11am – 11.45am
Weds 30 Oct, Thornton Library, 11am – 12noon
Weds 30 Oct, Manningham Library, 2pm – 3pm
Thurs 31 Oct, Bingley Library, 10am
Thurs 31 Oct, Heaton Hub Library, 10am – 12noon
Thurs 31 Oct, Wibsey Library, 2pm
Thurs 31 Oct, Laisterdyke Library, 2.30pm
Thurs 31 Oct, Menston Library, 3.30pm
Sat 2 Nov, Wrose Library, 10am – 11.45am
Sat 2 Nov, Queensbury Library, 10.30am
Sat 2 Nov, Great Horton Library, 1pm – 3pm Register for a place at the library. Ages 4-8 years
Mon 4 Nov, Idle Library, 2pm – 3pm
Weds 6 Nov, Silsden Library, 1.30pm – 2.30pm
ARTWORKS CREATIVE COMMUNITIES
Here to There: Travel to and from Bradford across the ages
Fun for all the family exploring how we got here! Whether on the bus, by bike, on foot or a journey your grandparents made long ago to find work or safety or both — let’s play with ideas and create a map of Bradford across time together.
Free, drop in, suitable for all ages
Wednesday 30 October, 1pm – 4pm
PEACE MUSEUM
Peace Around the World!
Come and join us at The Peace Museum to discover peace all around the world through our exhibitions! Take a trail through our galleries finding out about peace in different countries. Create your own badge. Under 5’s colouring.
Please note the museum is located up 60 steps with no lift. Staff can help with pushchairs.
The Peace Museum, free, drop in, all welcome Wednesday 30 October, 10am — 4pm
Thursday 31 October, 10am – 4pm
Friday 1 November, 10am – 4pm
BRADFORD MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
The Big Draw Family Drop In: The World’s Biggest Community of Drawing Enthusiasts
This is a great year to draw your community together, draw, explore, get out and about, kick start a new creative you and be part of the world’s biggest community of drawing enthusiasts!
Join Musarat Raza, artist, as she makes Halloween hats and masks. Use the Young Open 2019 exhibition as inspiration and create your own spookiness.
Cartwright Hall Gallery, free event
Thursday 31 October, 11am — 3pm
Suggested donation of £2 per person
NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUSEUM
Farmageddon Fun
When the intergalactic visitor – an impish and adorable alien called LU-LA – crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun soon sees an opportunity for alien-powered fun and adventure and sets off on a mission to shepherd LU-LA home…
This October Half Term flock to the National Science and Media Museum for a host of free activities inspired by A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, the latest feature film from Aardman & Studiocanal, in cinemas from October 18.
In addition to watching the film*, budding animators can get loads of behind-the-scenes tips and tricks, as well as make character models with the help of experts from Aardman.
Free activities for all ages.
Sat 26 October — Sun 3 November
Some events will require tickets in advance. Book ahead and plan your visit at scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/farmageddon
*Usual cinema charges apply.
IMPRESSIONS GALLERY
Bradford and Me!
Come and take part in Bradford and Me! And get creative by sharing your stories of Bradford in our special sticker and postcard making workshop. This event is inspired by our exhibition Borderland: Stories from Donbas by Christopher Nunn, which shows photographs of everyday life in Ukraine.
Impressions Gallery, free, drop in
Saturday 19 October 10.30am – 4pm
Wednesday 23 October 10.30am – 4pm
FAMILY LEARNING AND ADULT SKILLS
Crafting Around The World at the Library
Come join us for out of this world messy play activities. A range of creative making activities involving colouring, sticking, cutting and gluing to inspire families to get creative and have fun.
FREE Face painting during the day.
City Library, free, drop in
Super Saturday 26 October, 11am – 3pm
Wednesday 30 October 12noon – 3pm
Super Saturday 2 November, 11am – 3pm
City Library 01274 433600 email: citylibrary@bradford.gov.uk
Family Learning and Adult Skills 01274 433648 email: familylearning@bradford.gov.uk
The Peace Museum 01274 780241 www.peacemuseum.org.uk
National Science and Media Museum 0844 856 3797 www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk
Artwork Creative Communities at Delius Arts & Cultural Centre 01274 256919 www.artworkscreative.org.uk
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery 01274 431212 www.bradfordmuseums.org/venues/cartwrighthall
Impressions Gallery 01274 737843 www.impressions-gallery.com
Parents or Carers must come with children and be prepared to join in — it is Family Learning after all!
Good afternoon everyone
Is your setting ready for the latest Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge?
Great rhymers make great readers and the Rhyme Challenge is an excellent way for children and parents to take part in an informal learning opportunity whilst having lots of fun too. All they have to do is learn the five nursery rhymes in the pack. It is suitable for pre-school, nursery and reception age children.
How you do the challenge is up to you – settings usually invite parents in for five sessions to learn the rhymes with their children, but you can use the method which works best for you. Whichever you choose it is important that families complete the feedback sheets in the pack at the end of the challenge as we need these to secure future funding.
Each pack contains full instructions and enough resources for 30 families, including rhyme sheets and completion certificates. It is fine to photocopy any part of the pack if you need more sheets, or if you have a lot of families please ask for an extra pack.
And parents who bring their completed Rhyme Challenge certificate into their local library and enrol their child as a member (or show their child’s library card) can enter a prize draw to win individual or group prizes!
We shall be sending out packs on a first come first served basis – so if your setting would like to do the challenge, please get in touch as soon as possible. If you are able to collect your packs from your local library, we would be happy to arrange it – just let me know which one.
If you have any queries please get in touch
Susan Brewster-Craig
Bradford Libraries
Libraries & Museums Tel: 01274 433684
Did you know?
What is the Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge?
The Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge takes place each year in libraries, voluntary settings and maintained/non-maintained childcare settings. September – March.
The challenge is simple.
We ask settings/libraries to encourage parents to learn 5 rhymes with their child and receive a certificate to say they have completed the challenge.
Childcare settings, toddler groups and libraries all take on the challenge in different ways. Some have a set programme to learn the rhymes over 5 weeks with a special celebration at the end, others have simply taken the challenge head on and asked parents and carers to learn the rhymes over a shorter period of time. They then sing the rhymes together to receive the certificates.
It does not matter which way the challenge is carried out. The aim is to ensure that parents, carers and children have fun!
The rhymes this year included:
Twinkle Twinkle Library
Five Little Speckled Frogs
Jack In A Box
One Finger, One Thumb
Frere Jacques (French version)
Background
Why Bradford Libraries oversee the challenge
The evidence is clear that great rhymers make great readers1 and as a library service with an aim to develop our early years audience the Rhyme Challenge helps in many ways to promote the services we provide and encourage children on their life long reading journey.
The challenge also aims to work towards improving the proportion of children achieving a Good Level of Development in Bradford.
Outlined below is how the Rhyme Challenge links to the curriculum outcomes of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
| Rhyme Challenge Areas of Learning England – Early Years Foundation Stage Communication & Language: Singing, listening and sharing rhymes. Communication and Language Literacy: Learning rhyming sounds to aid future literacy. Literacy Maths: Counting rhymes Mathematics Being creative: Expressing ideas and sharing feelings through music, movement, role play and design technology. Expressive Arts and Design Feeling good: Developing a positive sense of themselves, doing things which help build confidence. Personal, Social and Emotional Development Finding out: Discovering and making sense of the world. Finding out about people and animals as well as different cultures and places. Understanding the World Let’s move: Being active and interactive, developing co-ordination, control and movement. Physical Development |
The challenge also supports practitioners and library staff become more aware of the value of providing a language rich environment to promote the development of children’s communication and language skills.3
Best practice when completing the challenge sees libraries and settings working with families to learn all five rhymes and receive the certificate. Research consistently highlights that families are the most important influence in a child’s early development and prevention and early intervention to support families is crucial for good health and social care outcomes by the age of 5.4
Finally, experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if a child knows 8 nursery rhymes by heart by the time they are 4 they are usually among the best readers by the time they are 8.5
Notes:
1 The benefit of Rhymes – Research review from Booktrust http://www.bookstart.org.uk/professionals/about-bookstart-and-the-packs/research/reviews-and-resources/the-benefit-of-rhymes/
2Public Health Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (Bradford)
3Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge Report 2016-17
(available on request)
4Marmot (2010) Fair Society, Healthy Lives –Strategic review health inequalities in England post-2010 www.ucl.ac.uk/marmotreview
5Mem Fox: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever. Harcourt, 2001
Feedback
Group Leader Feedback
“The Rhyme Challenge has given us a focus.”
100% of group leaders said that the Rhyme Challenge was beneficial to the families they work with.
Many of the groups involved provided feedback on how they had enhanced the challenge in their settings. This took many forms including:
Props Sent copies of rhymes home
Frog puppets Celebration event
Displays Bookstart Bear visit
Joined in with senior citizen club Parents at Play session
New cosy book area French bistro
Accompanied on the piano Dress up
French visitor taught rhymes Messy play
Special assembly Used instruments
Made zigzag books Accompanied on guitar
Bubbles Parachutes
Playdough Ball pool
Sign language Imaginative play
96% of group leaders thought that parents/carers and children now joined in more with rhymes after the rhyme challenge.
89% of group leaders thought that the challenge had increased their knowledge of the value of providing a language rich environment to promote the development of children’s communication and language skills.
Individual Parental Feedback
As you can see from the chart below 97% of parents who responded said they sing rhymes more since the introduction of the new rhyme challenge. 97% of respondents also thought that the challenge had increased their awareness of the benefits of sharing rhymes with very young children. 94% of parents said that the challenge had increased their child’s speech and language skills.
Parents also told us that they feel more confident to sing rhymes with their children after taking the rhyme challenge (96% of respondents).
Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge Awards
Best practice awards for staff and practitioners.
Criteria for judging panel can include:
An individual, group, centre, library or nursery that has:
This was not an exhaustive list and nominations could be made for a variety of reasons.
The nominees are:
Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge Best Practice Individual Award
Maddie Coelho – Burley Library
Rachael Dennis – National Childbirth Trust
Rachel Parker – Senior Social Worker, Catholic Care
Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge Best Practice Library Award
Baildon Library
Bingley Library
Burley Library
City Library
Clayton Hybrid Library
Eccleshill Library
Holme Wood Library
Idle Library
Ilkley Library
Keighley Library
Laisterdyke Library
Thornton Community Library
Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge Best Practice Voluntary Sector Award
Bingley Baptist Toddlers
Dixons Marchbank Stay & Play
Keighley Catholic Care Centre
Little Ducklings Playgroup
National Childbirth Trust
St Andrews See and Know Toddler Group
St John’s Playgroup Baildon
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary Stay & Play with Catholic Care
Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge Best Practice Childcare Setting Award
Alison Mazacs – Childminder
Ashfield Day Nursery
Bramble Hedge Pre-School
Cottingley Pre-School
Karmand Community Centre Nursery
Lapage Primary Nursery
Lilycroft Nursery School
Long Lee Primary Nursery
Netherleigh
& Rossefield Nursery School
Nightingales Day Nursery
Pied Piper Pre-School
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary Nursery & Reception
St Matthews CE Primary Nursery
Sandal Primary Nursery
Summerfield Children’s Place Nursery & Amazing Grace Luncheon Club
Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge Best Practice Children’s Centre Award
South Bradford Children’s Centre Cluster
Winners and runners up will be announced at the Rhyme Challenge awards ceremony – 9 July 2019.
Case Studies
Case Study One: Primary School Stay & Play
We have really enjoyed the different activities set up around the rhymes. Many of our children are very young when they join and it is amazing to see their progress as they develop an understanding of focus, sharing and listening. They Rhyme Challenge has helped in the development of speech, learning numbers, colours, shapes, sizes, animal names and family.
One of our activities included using green and yellow playdough and showing the children how to make little playdough frogs to go on the log. We followed up this activitiy by everyone singing the “five little frogs” rhyme. We used the “one finger, one thumb keeps moving” to get the mums and toddlers up and active. We made finger puppets as a table activity to introduce the rhyme. We linked rhyme time to the “50 Things Bradford” which we also promote in school.
It was a wonderful surprise to have Bookstart Bear come and visit us earlier this year. Followed by the story time sessions at Laisterdyke Library. Thank you to Laisterdyke Library for having us and to the staff for making the story time sessions so fun. Library sessions with their toddlers was a first time experience for most of our mums as they were not aware of how much was available for their children at their local library. We got all of our children signed up and our school too. This means we can now borrow picture books and set up a little library at the stay and play sessions.
Our school’s focus is on reading for children, for adults, for education and especially for fun. We have succeeded in showing parents how you can switch off the TV, table or phone and sit with your child to enjoy a book together. The interaction between a parent and child sharing an activity beats all digital experiences at this young age.
Case Study Two: Community Library
An additional new rhymetime was launched at the library to coincide with the start of the Rhyme Challenge.
The Rhyme Challenge was delivered twice a week over the four week period at both the regular session and at the new session on a Thursday. The Tuesday session was an hour long and incorporated the Rhyme Challenge rhymes, a story and complimentary craft. The new session was launched on Week 1 of the Rhyme Challenge. This was due to the overwhelming (as many as 40 children per week) popularity of our Tuesday session. It is a shorter session of 30 minutes and consists of rhymes only and is targeted at the under 2 age group. Over the four weeks, a total of 119 children and 85 adults attended on a Tuesday and 47 children and 41 adults attended on a Thursday. Both sessions now continue term time only.
We encourage all members of the family to join the library and have their own ticket. We stress the fact that it’s best to take children’s books out on a child’s ticket to avoid late fines. Parents/carers often express surprise that babies can join the library – even newborns! The youngest new joiner we have ever had was about two weeks old. We advertised the Rhyme Challenge on our website, Facebook page and on posters inside/outside the library.
Comment from parents “Love this group!”
Report compiled by Bradford Libraries Early Years Development June 2019
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Keighley
Library Saturday 6th July 10am – 2pm Explore texture and shape using air drying paper clay. Have a go at colouring techniques. Make simple tiles, hangings, jewellery or just have a play. No experience necessary. For adults (16+). Bring a packed lunch. All materials provided. £20 Pay on the day To book https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bradfordlibraries/t-qkjzrl Or email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk |
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Keighley
Library Saturday 20th July 10am – 4pm A day workshop/seminar in which participants will bring in one poem to be worked on in a participant led feedback seminar. We will also look at recent examples of published poetry via selected texts. In the afternoon, there will be writing exercises to inspire your next poems and a Q & A session with the tutor, an award winning poet and managing editor of a local poetry publisher, where you can grill him on all aspects of poetry, from writing to getting your work into print in magazines, webzines and anthologies. £10 pay on the day. To book https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bradfordlibraries/t-ykaper Or email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk |
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Shipley
Library Saturday 27th July 10am – 4pm A day workshop focusing on how to plan and start writing a novel. We will look at character, plot and setting via selected texts and put pen to paper with writing exercises to help formulate ideas or expand on ideas you may already have. The aim of this workshop is to get our first chapters up and running. And the really tricky bit….to keep going. We will also look at how not to write our novels to avoid the trapdoors that many first time novelists fall through. There will also be a Q & A session with the course tutor, a published and critically acclaimed novelist, where participants can ask about all aspects of writing a novel, seeking publication and beyond. This course is designed for both aspiring novelists and those who’ve never managed to complete their ambitious projects. £10 pay on the day To book https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bradfordlibraries/t-rdprqj Or email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk |
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Keighley
Library Saturday 13th July 6pm Join us in Keighley Local Studies Library for a celebration of Poet John Clare’s birthday and the end of our project ‘The Meeting – Reading and Writing through John Clare’. This project was created to mark the 200th anniversary of Clare’s most remarkable year by forging a new set of ‘meetings’ of Clare with new writers in the shape of poetry workshops. This project is part of a national scheme funded by Oxford Brookes University and created by Prof Simon Kovesi. This celebratory event will involve the reading of John Clare poems, readings from poet Sarah Corbett and also poems inspired by the work of John Clare written and read by project participants. Free entry but please book. All welcome. Refreshments served. To book https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bradfordlibraries/t-evalyl Or email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk |
| Bingley writers group are looking for new members. They meet in Bingley Library once a month on a Monday afternoon at 2pm. The next meeting will be 8th July. If you are interested in joining the group please email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk |
Learn
about different writing styles and genre through weekly exercises.
This course will lead you through the essentials of the craft, including
characterization, plotting, description, dialogue and editing.
There
will also be the chance to explore publishing opportunities and share your own
writing and receive feedback.
Beginners and more experienced writers welcome. 10 week course. For adults
(18+)
Ilkley
Library
Friday 4.30 – 6.30pm
Start date 19th July
Tutor Steve O’Connor
City Library
Saturday 10am – 12pm
Start date 20th July
Tutor Steve O’Connor
Beginners Creative writing course
Shipley Library 6 – 8pm
Start date 16th July
Tutor Steve O’Connor.
For adults (18+)
To book https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bradfordlibraries
Or email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk
Come and join Bradford Libraries during Refugee Week at their welcoming storytime and craft making activity for children and families. Lily and the Polar Bears is a charming, funny, sweet picture book combining concerns about arctic erosion, animal conservation and immigration in a lovely story about polar bears. Come along to hear the story and make a fun polar bear craft.