Celebrate NZ Sign Language Week at our special storytime and learn some basic signs with your tamariki!
- Friday 13 May
- 10.30am
🧏 Celebrate Sign Language Week with a special storytime this Friday
Category: Children
🌑 Celebrate Star Wars this May the 4th
Wednesday 4 May
Starts 3.30pm
Activities from 3.30pm
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🤡 Carnival Style Games
🧁 Baking Fun!
✉️ Origami
🖍️ Colouring
📸 Photobooth!
🔨 String Art
Create a piece of String Art to let the Force be with you!
Use a hammer and nails to make a design using template or create their own designs. The result is a beautiful art-work.
Pick up a take-home craft kit from the Help Desk.
Virtual Reality (ages 12+)
Starts at 5.00pm
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🙋 Star Wars Quiz
in the meeting room
Starts at 5.30pm
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🍿 Movie Screening
in the meeting room
🐇 Enjoy Easter fun these school holidays!
We have a great range of fun activities to keep the kids busy these school holidays!
Each weekday there will be a different activity in the morning (starting at 10.30am) and the afternoon (starting at 2:00pm).
Please note: we will be closed on the public holidays during the school holiday period. Click here for a list of our opening hours over the Easter and Anzac holiday period.
Watch out! 👀
Be on the lookout for a giant penguin wandering around the library. He's Finn's cousin, Bob.
Introduce yourself and he might give you a present!
Egg Hunt 🔍
We have hidden mini plastic eggs around the library.
Find one and read the message inside.
Bring it up to the desk to choose a prize!
Full Timetable
Read and win! Grab a Winter Reading card today! ⛄
Winners announced! 🏆
Congratulations to all of our lucky winners:
Early Readers
$50 Warehouse voucher – Robin Olbrich
$50 Reading Cinema’s voucher – Harry McCarthy
Book prize pack – Lewis Nelson
Kids
$50 Warehouse voucher – Alexa Oosthuizen
$50 Reading Cinema’s voucher – Olivia Carter
Book prize pack – Joshua Romero
Teens
$50 Warehouse voucher – Oshadha Perera
$50 Reading Cinema’s voucher –Amelia Thompson
Book prize pack –Luke Smith
Winter Reading has returned! 🏂
Running for the month of July, simply pick-up a challenge card (or print one off at home) and get reading! We have three age groups; early readers (0-7 years), kids (ages 7-12), and teens (age 12-18).
Complete at least 4 challenges and you’ll be in to win! Prizes include a $50 Warehouse voucher, $50 Reading Cinemas voucher, and a Book Prize Pack!
Entries close 6pm, Saturday 31 July. Winners will be notified on Monday 2 August.
✍🏼 Write and win! Enter your Matariki-themed short story and you could win a $500 prezzy card!
Matariki Short Story Competition
Great prizes up for grabs!
Age categories:
- 13-18 years: Winner gets a $500 prezzy card
- 8-12 years: The winner gets a $200 book voucher.
PLUS, you’ll both get your story published on Lingogo and
win a Lingogo subscription for your school. Enter now!
What's Lingogo?
Lingogo is Aotearoa’s raddest library app for dual-language Māori & Pacific stories with audio.
Help us celebrate Matariki 2021 by entering our short story competition before June 30. You could be flying into the Māori new year as a published author with some extra moolah in your pocket!
Competition Details
Stories must be:
- about Matariki. Interpret that any way you want. We’ll accept fiction or non-fiction, contemporary or traditional, and all genres.
- between 50-400 words submitted as a word doc or pdf.
- an original, unpublished piece of work by you.
- written in English or te reo Māori.
- Submitted by midnight 30 June, 2021.
Who can enter:
- You must be a NZ citizen and have parental approval.
- You must be between 8-18 years of age.
