Weekly activities and events at Sudbury Library
| Day |
Time |
Activity |
| Tuesdays |
2.30pm - 4.30pm |
'Top Time - Years Ahead' older people's social club |
| Wednesdays |
9.30am and 10.45am |
Free UK Online sessions - please contact
the library
to book a session |
| Thursdays |
9.45am - 10.15am |
Bookstart story time session for pre-school children |
| Sundays |
10.30am - 12.00noon |
Children's activities |
Bookstart
 |
We run a Bookstart storytime session for pre-school children
every Thursday morning 9.45am - 10.15am.
|
Sunday activities
Come and enjoy our children's activities 10.30am - 12.00noon every
Sunday at Sudbury Library:
In line with the
BBC Breathing
Places –
Do One
Thing Campaign, the Library will be holding a month of events
to encourage children to ‘to do one thing’ towards helping nature
and wildlife. We will have Activity Quiz and drawing
sheets for children to take away and complete at home.
| Sunday |
Activity |
| 2 November |
Bonfire Night and Leaf Rubbing - Join us by
bringing in large leaves and twigs to help us make the ‘bonfire’,
do some leaf rubbing and draw pictures of a Guy. We also have
leaf activity sheets for you to take home with you. |
| 9 November |
Bird Song - Learn different bird songs, colour
in bird activity sheets, draw birds for our display board and we
have ‘make your own bird feeder’ activity sheets to take
home. |
| 16 November |
Mini Beasts - Join our Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Officer and their ‘mini-beasts’!! Hear all about their
habitat and lifestyle, what we can do for them and draw your own
mini-beast! |
| 23 November |
Recycling Day - Make your own recycling poster
to encourage your friends and family to recycle more! |
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| 7 December |
Letter to Santa and Christmas cards - Come to
the library and make cards for your family and friends |
| 14 December |
Christmas decorations and winter snowflakes -
Make some glittery decorations for the library Christmas tree and
some to take home as well |
| 21 December |
Silly monsters and Dinosaurs, Gruffalo and Dennis the
monster - Get creative and make some silly
monsters |
| 28 December |
Calendar making for 2009 -
Nearly the
New Year so come and make some calendars |
'Top Time - Years Ahead' older people's social club
A group aimed at older people and carers with a friendly
and varied programme of events. Runs every Tuesday, from
2.30pm to 4.30pm.
Find more details of the forthcoming programme
here or contact the library for further
information.
UK ONLINE
Sudbury Library offers free UK Online sessions every Wednesday
morning at either 9.30am or 10.45am. Please contact the
library to book a session.
Past Events
Family History Day
On Sunday 9th November we held a special free family history
event. Members of the Suffolk Family History Society were on hand
to help members of the public get started, give advice
and show some of the best resources for tracing your family
history.
The Big Draw
 |
As part of the celebrations for
The
Big Draw this year, Suffolk Libraries ran several Sunday
drawing events including one at Sudbury.
On Sunday 26 October local illustrator Peter Gray ran a
session of character drawing from books and
imagination. |
African History Month
We are ran a number of events in October to coincide with
African History Month as detailed below:
| Date |
Details |
| 12 October |
Sunday Childrens Activity : National Poetry Day focusing on
Caribbean Poetry |
| 13 - 18 October |
Mixed Blessings Exhibition |
| 16 October |
Bookstart Session "We All Went On Safari" |
| 19 October |
Sunday Childrens Activity based around the 'Anansi The Spider'
books |
| 23 October |
Bookstart Session "African
Instruments" |
We also had a Book & CD Display of R&B, Reggae and Soul
Music Icons as well as a Childrens Book Display of stories &
poetry about Africa & the Caribbean.
National Year Of Reading - Gruffalo visit
 |
As part of the
National
Year Of Reading, Sudbury Library welcomed the Gruffalo as a
special guest on 25th September. The Gruffalo visited the libraries
Bookstart session, then went on for a trip to Great Waldingfield
School and the Phoenix Children's Centre where he helped with
reading The Gruffalo book and singing the Gruffalo Song. After the
day's fun and games The Gruffalo also helped give out competition
prizes at the Sudbury Library Team Read presentation ceremony - see
further information below. |
Reading Challenge
During the summer children had the opportunity to take part
in this year's reading challenge ...
Team Read. All they had to do was read 6
books...
 |
Congratulations!
Children who have finished this years reading
challenge (Word, 66Kb)
Presentation of certificates was on Thursday
25 September. |
Gruffalo came along to help with the
presentation...
Gruffalo pictured with volunteers (above left) and with
the children who completed the Reading Challenge (above
right).
We also ran a 'make your own medal competition' during the
summer to coincide with Team Read - congratulations
to the winners:
0-5 Years
1st Place: Jacob Edwards
2nd Place: George Bareham
3rd Place: Rosie Dane
6+ Years
1st Place: Kate Bowler
2nd Place: Molly Cutmore
3rd Place: Patsy Barnard-Jones
Special event - Storytelling with writer Robert Crighton
On Saturday 5 July Robert Crighton, the award winning writer and
performer was in the library, telling a series of
interconnected stories from around the globe entitled "A Telling of
the World"
This event was run in partnership with Sudbury & District
United Nations Associations.
National Year of Reading
 |
One of the world's leading paper engineers,
Robert Crowther was in Suffolk on Tuesday 11 March to show
children the techniques for making their own pop-up books. He
worked with children from Woodhall Primary
School. |
Contact details and opening times for Sudbury library
Activities and events across
Suffolk