What’s On in December 2017 at South Ham Library?

How Do you Celebrate Christmas in a Library?….. With books and crafts and family fun!

Join us every Saturday morning for drop in fun from 10am-midday. All activities are free of charge. We request that children under 10 are accompanied by an adult.

1st Saturday Craft – 2nd December

Make and decorate

your own Christmas tree

2^nd Saturday Board Games 9^th Dec

3^rd Saturday Construction Club 16^th Dec

4^th Saturday Storytime -December 23^rd Join us at 10:15 and 11:15 for

A Special Christmas Storytime

with themed Colouring

During the week Story Time continues to be held at 10:30 am on TUESDAYS. Come and join us for stories and themed colouring . Construction Club is held after school on Tuesdays, with the opportunity to play with Lego and Duplo from 3:30pm-4:45pm every week.

We have been so impressed by our Code Clubbers this term. Our last meeting will be on the 6^th December where our members will be able to showcase what they have achieved to family and friends. We look forward to Code club starting again in the new year on the 17^th January for 10 weeks please contact us on 01256 336047 if you would like to reserve a place for a 9-11 year old who would like to learn coding. We have a great range of coding books and don’t forget our BBC Micro:bits which are available  for a 4 week loan.

Chatterbooks reading group for primary aged children will be held on Friday, 15^th December at 4pm with craft and book activities linked with Christmas and at the same time our T.R.@.S.H. group (Teen Reading @ South Ham) will hold a meeting for those at secondary school who love books – come and be part of this exciting venture.. Both Chatterbooks and T.R.@S.H. would love to welcome new members, pop into the library or contact us via our Facebook page to find out more.

Rhymetime continues every Friday with fun rhymes and songs at 11am for babies and toddlers.

Activities for adults this month include the Genesis Sci-Fi Reading Group on the 9th December  from 10:00am-12:00 noon and Age Concern continue to provide computer instruction for the over 50s on Tuesdays from 10:00am-1:00pm; for more information or an appointment call 01256423874.

We now have our range of Christmas Cookbooks available to borrow if you are looking for inspiration on what to feed your friends and family this Christmas and craft books with ideas for gifts and home decoration. We also have many fiction books with a seasonal twist from classics like A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens to A Christmas Wedding by James Patterson or A Gift from Bob by James Bowen.

Don’t forget we have 4 computers giving access to the internet and Microsoft office software, a scanner and colour printer and photocopier. The computers are free to use but there are charges for printing. We also have FREE access online to Ancestry, Find my Past, Which? Magazine Online and the British Newspaper Archive Online. Ask a member of staff for help getting started.

Also by joining the library you can access hundreds of ebooks, audiobooks on your smartphone, tablet or home computer through our NEW Libby App which is even easier to use than Overdrive and magazines through RB Digital.

We look forward to welcoming you to our busy, buzzy, friendly, FESTIVE, local library this month.