Summer Reading Challenge awards ceremony at Dornoch library - first since pandemic
Dornoch library has held its first face-to-face awards ceremony since the coronavirus pandemic.
Certificates and medals were presented last Friday to young library users who successfully completed the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge.
Major General Patrick Marriott, Lord-Lieutenant of Sutherland, presented the awards to a total of 24 children who took part in the reading challenge
The Summer Reading Challenge encourages children to keep reading during the summer holidays. It is free to take part in and young people sign up at their local library or online. They are asked to borrow six books, read them, and then tell their local librarian about what they have read. Each time they finish a book, they can collect special stickers and rewards.
Independent charity the Reading Agency, which works to encourage people to read more, created the challenge with the first one held 25 years ago in 1999.
The Agency runs the scheme nationally, reaching around 750,000 children aged from four to 11 years across the UK library network.
The 2024 challenge started in Scotland on June 22 with all High Life Highland Libraries taking part. The challenge has a different theme each year and this year ‘s theme was ‘Marvellous Makers’ with the focus on creativity and inspiring children’s imaginations.
A spokesperson for High Life Highland, which runs the library service, said: “This year around 1,430 local children took part across High Life Highland’s 40 libraries and seven mobile libraries. In total around 5,100 books were read over the summer holidays.”
For more information, visit: summerreadingchallenge.org.uk
