Here’s one for children looking for an
adventure these school holidays.
Hutt City Libraries’
summer safari reading club offers adventure, fun and prizes
while encouraging children to continue reading during their
holidays.
"Studies show children can improve their reading
skills by taking part in a programme like summer safari as
it gives them a head start over their peers who need to
adjust back to reading when they return to school ... and of
course they have a lot of fun," says libraries manager
Sandra Mann.
Children aged 5-12 can join the club at any
Hutt City library from 16 December and receive a gameboard
to fill in as they read. Once complete participants will get
a ticket to the grand finale adventure party at a mystery
location.
Children need to be a library member to join the
reading club. It’s easy and free to join the library.
"The grand finale is sure to be a hit with both children
and their parents as we have loads of action, games and
entertainment"
If you're using Scoop for work, your organisation needs to pay a small license fee with Scoop Pro. We think that's fair, because your organisation is benefiting from using our news resources. In return, we'll also give your team access to pro news tools and keep Scoop free for personal use, because public access to news is important!
Now that he’s back as Foreign Minister, maybe Winston Peters should start reading the MFAT website. If he did, Peters would find MFAT celebrating the 25th anniversary of how New Zealand alerted the rest of the world to the genocide developing in Rwanda. [...] How times have changed. In 2023, the government (and media) is clutching its pearls because senior Labour MP Damien O’Connor has dared to suggest that Gaza’s civilian population – already subjected to 16 years of an illegal embargo and living under apartheid laws - and who are now being herded together and slaughtered indiscriminately amid the destruction of their homes, schools, mosques and hospitals, are the victims of what amounts to a genocide...More
“The Human Rights Commission’s appointment of a second Chief Executive is just the latest example of a taxpayer-funded bureaucracy serving itself at the expense of delivery for New Zealanders,” says ACT MP Todd Stephenson. More
New CTU analysis of the National & ACT coalition agreement has shown the cost of returning interest deductibility to landlords is an extra $900M on top of National’s original proposal. This is because it is going to be implemented earlier and faster, including retrospective rebates from April 2023. More