The exterior of Batley.

BBC at Batley Library!

Byadmin

This World Book Day, March 2nd, the BBC presenters Ben Shires and Konnie Huq will be broadcasting live from Batley Library as part of the BBC Teach Live Lessons initiative.

In a live lesson specially aimed at children 7-11 years old, they will be talking to authors including Michael Rosen, and Kevin and Katie Tsang about genre, characters and storytelling. The programme will be fully interactive and hopes to promote reading for pleasure among children.

The show will be available to watch on CBBC at 11am on Thursday 2nd March. Batley Library will be closed that day, but will reopen on Friday 3rd March at 10am.

Similar Posts

The Northorpe Hall logo.

Northorpe Hall

Byadmin

Dipika Kaushal is Chief Executive of Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust – a charity founded 60 years ago to support children where ill health, low income or disadvantage prevented them from accessing and benefiting from mainstream provision.  For the past 20 years Northorpe Hall’s focus has been mental health and emotional well-being, providing an…

A Happy MOMents poster

HappyMOMents- THE local network for Moms

Byadmin

A Guest blog by the HappyMOMents Team. HappyMOMents is a voluntary community group set up by a group of localwomen, most of them moms and professionals, who were frustrated by thelack of social and educational opportunities for themselves, their babies andtoddlers locally. Since the demise of local children’s centres and Surestart,there has been very little…

Birstall Knit and Natter.
|

Birstall Knit and Natter

Byadmin

Birstall Knit and Natter group are taking action on the energy crisis! The group has been given a grant to buy wool which they will then use for the “Warm Blanket Project”, knitting blankets and other items for elderly and vulnerable people in the local community. The knitting group has existed for over 10 years…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *