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Library event was just Champion
Huddersfield Town striker Andy Booth joined parents
and children in Huddersfield Library for football-related
activities linked to family learning.
Children who attend the Huddersfield Town Study Centre,
based at Galpharm Stadium, and their parents took part
in numeracy and literacy activities put together by
the Family Learning Team at Huddersfield Technical College
and art activities in Huddersfield Art Gallery on the
top floor of the library building.
They also played Subbuteo in the Children's Library
and browsed the Study Centre's homework support website
on the library's computers.
At the end of the evening, each youngster received
a goody bag courtesy of Huddersfield Library and a book
donated by the National Literacy Trust.
It was the first time the Study Centre, the Technical
College and the Library had got together for an event
of this type. "But we hope it won't be the last,"
said Judith Robinson, Kirklees Libraries Support Officer
for Basic Skills, who organised the event in partnership
with Alison Pheasey, Family Learning Coordinator at
Huddersfield Technical College, and Tracy Liddell of
the Hudderfield Town Study Centre.
Andy
Booth (pdf) attended in his capacity as Kirklees Libraries
Reading Champion and he felt the event had been a huge
success.
"I've been into the Study Centre at the Stadium
to see children working there but it was nice to see
the children and their parents working together in the
library. Both got so much out of it," commented
Andy, who became a local Reading Champion last year
under the National Literacy Trust's 'Reading The Game'
initiative which uses professional footballers as role
models encouraging youngsters to read.
To find out more about family learning in this area,
contact Alison Pheasey, tel: 01484 536521 Ext: 7550.
Reading Champions: Andy
Booth (pdf)
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