Libraries aren’t just great places to read your favourite books, they’re also community spaces that host an array of child friendly activities. With autumn half-term coming up, we decided to find out more about what’s going on at Leeds libraries. Today we talk to Owen Clements, the Children’s Information Librarian at Leeds Central Library, about…
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A child friendly Leeds means making Leeds a place where children and young people, and their families are able to get out and get active! After the excitement of the Grand Départ, more people in Leeds are keen to get out on their bicycles and Sky Rides are a great way for families to do…
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Keeping children engaged in learning can be difficult, especially over the summer holidays. The Mythical Maze summer reading challenge is a fun way to improve your child’s literacy whilst getting them involved in some fantastic activities and stories! Mythical Maze is a national campaign organised by the Reading Agency, with the involvement of the Leeds…
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The Breeze Arts Festival is an arts festival for young people aged 11-19, taking place between 19-27 July across Leeds. This year we have been working with a steering group of young people to organise the festival. These nine young people have been meeting with us weekly from January to July to help to plan…
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After spending weeks preparing, our plan to ride the first stage of Le Tour finally took place on the 26th of June. We couldn’t have chosen a better day for riding, with the weather dry but not too hot. The four relay riders set off from Tech North at 7am- with a rider on the road…
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With Le Tour’s Grand Départ just four days away, Temple Newsam welcomed school pupils from across Leeds for the Leeds School Cycle Challenge. The Challenge was designed to encourage children to cycle and to give the pupils, from 50 primary schools and five Special Inclusive Learning Centres (SILCs), a chance to meet Olympic gold…
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Celebrating the Tour de France coming to Leeds, the Tour de Roundhay set out to provide a fun and sociable afternoon for our local community. It certainly delivered this, drawing the praise of BBC Look North’s Amanda Harper who joined us to cut the ribbon for our Grand Départ. Ronnie the Rhino and the Garforth…
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The Go-Givers’ Make a Difference Challenge supports key stage 2 children (aged 7 – 11) in leading a social action campaign on a local, national or global issue of their choice. The challenge was piloted with eight schools from the Temple Newsam Learning Partnership in 2012, with 31 primary schools taking part in 2014. Child friendly…
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Plans for the Big Green Weekend Open Day at Skelton Grange on 5th October are really coming together! We are very excited at the prospect of being able to contribute to the Leeds Inspired programme of cultural events across Leeds in 2013 and hope that our plans for celebrating environmental and community arts, crafts and…
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