Cheslyn Hay Library

The library will be open in the run up to Christmas, including Saturday 23rd December.

We are then closed for the Christmas to New Year week and reopen on Tuesday 2nd January 2024.

We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Halloween sessions.

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In the run up to Christmas we'll make sure there's some festive colouring sheets and activities to do in the library, and to take away and do at home [if you prefer].

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Come and join us today and next Saturday for some Halloween crafting and colouring.

The library has undergone a Halloween transformation and there's some little treats for the kids 🎃👻

Don't forget we have a book sale at the library today... 10 am til 1 pm

We have a book sale at the library next Saturday 27 May 2023. Please come along to see us 😊

The library will be closed on Monday 24th April due to staff holidays.

We remain open as usual for the rest of the week.

The dates listed cover the upcoming bank holidays.

Thank you to all the children who entered our Easter Egg competition. You are all winners, please pop in to get your prize.

The library will be closed for the Easter break as follows:

Good Friday - closed
Saturday - closed
Sunday - closed
Monday - closed

🐥We reopen on Tuesday 11 April.🐥

🐥We wish you all a Happy Easter 🐥

All books dated over the weekend will automatically have been updated to 11th.

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✏️Here is a very exciting opportunity for all budding writers! ✏️

To celebrate this year’s Staffordshire Day on the 1st May, poets of all ages and abilities are invited to submit a poem for the Big Green
Poetry Competition.

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This year’s theme is sustainability, and we want to hear your
thoughts on the beauty of Staffordshire’s environment and wildlife.🌳🌳

The winning poems will be published in a book for you to keep and
available at local libraries.

The deadline for all submissions is Friday 14 April 2023.

Poems can be handed in by either handing it in to your local library in the county, emailed to [email protected] or posted to Communications Department, Staffordshire County Council, Staffordshire Place, Tipping Street, Stafford ST16.

Get creative and have fun!

🐥 Do you like to colour? The library is holding an Easter Egg colouring competition with the chance of winning an Easter Egg for each of the following school age groups:

🐥 Nursery / Reception
🐥 Years 1 and 2
🐥 Years 3 to 6
🐥 Year 7+

We have printed out a selection of colouring sheets for you to either pick up at the library or to colour here. Just add your name and year group and hand it to one of our volunteers for the chance to take part.

The closing date for entries is Thursday 14th April. We look forward to seeing all your colourful entries. 🐥

There will be a PCSO Police engagement session at the library on Tuesday 21st February at 2.30 pm

Thank you to whoever left the smile stone in the library last week. It's moved within the library, perhaps you can find it and move it on...

We have some Christmas crafts out in the Library. Come and do some colouring or please feel free to take one to colour at home 😊.

We are also hoping to do some drop in sessions on 10th and 17th December 😊

We've had fun at the library this afternoon doing Halloween crafts. We're crafting again tomorrow between 10 am and 12 noon. Come along and join in the fun 🎃👻🎃👻

This week is half-term for many people, so with that in mind we've got a couple of drop-in craft sessions later this week. Free to attend! We also have colouring sheets (with some new additions for Halloween) and you're always welcome to take one away, or sit here and do one or two.

As we learn of the sad news that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has passed away, our thoughts are with the Royal Family as they grieve for their Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother.

The Queen demonstrated extraordinary dedication and commitment to duty throughout her Reign and did so with a graceful strength and admirable determination.

She ruled throughout decades of change, from the dark post-war years, through to the new horizons of the 21st century, providing essential continuity for the nation.

This is a period of public grief when people who do not know each other come together to mourn a national figure who has been consistent throughout our lives and for whom we have collective affection despite not knowing her personally.

We share our condolences to the Royal Family and King Charles III at this sad time.

We are open on Saturday for Bank Holiday weekend but the library will be closed on Monday :)

Our Summer Reading Challenge is now live. Come and visit the library and if you're not already a member, join up and take part :)

Why not take a look at the trails too - a fun outside activity to exercise the kids mentally and physically.

In preparation for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, one of our younger volunteers has prepared a display with interesting facts and pictures from the Queen's history.

There are also some colouring pages for our younger visitors to take and colour at home ✏️

After two long years we are happy to bring back our Places of Welcome to the library.

This will take place weekly on Thursdays between 10 am and 12 noon.

Please pop along and join our lovely Thursday volunteers for a drink and a chat.

Our volunteers are taking a short break over Easter. We hope everyone has a great Easter and doesn't eat too much chocolate ;) 🐣🐇

We have very kindly been donated a copy of The Magic of Jack by local author, Amanda Edwards.

If you would like to take a look, our copy is on the shelf in the children's section of the library. Unfortunately it's not available to borrow as yet.

Amanda will also be holding a book launch at Olde Wyrley Hall on Saturday 26 March from 4 pm to 6 pm.

This made us smile :-)
We're open until Thursday 23rd, after which we are closed until January 4th 2022. But when we're open you can indeed borrow books for free!