North Tyneside Libraries are inviting people to help celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a range of events and activities.
Big Jubilee Read
The Big Jubilee Read is a national reading for pleasure campaign celebrating great reads from across the Commonwealth to coincide with the Jubilee.
An expert panel of librarians, booksellers and literature specialists has chosen seventy titles from a "readers' choice" longlist with ten books for each decade of Her Majesty The Queen's reign. The list offers brilliant, beautiful and thrilling writing produced by authors from a wide range of Commonwealth countries over the last seventy years to engage all readers in the discovery and celebration of great books.
Big Jubilee Read | RGfE (readinggroups.org)
In celebration of the Jubilee, The Reading Agency has donated copies of Michael Morpurgo’s There Once Is A Queen to libraries. Each library in North Tyneside has received a copy.
Right Royal Read
All 11 library authorities in the North East will be holding a Right Royal Read on the week beginning 23rd May. Libraries will be holding story telling sessions for children, reading ‘The Queen’s Handbag’ by Steve Antony. There will also be linked craft activities, such as drawing what the Queen keeps in her handbag. In North Tyneside, classes from Richardson Dees and Amberley Primary will be taking part in the sessions and all of the children involved will get a copy of the book to keep. Story times in all our libraries that week will have a royal theme.
Party at the Palace!
It's the biggest event in the history of Buckingham Palace - The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations...the only problem is, the pressure is getting to Penelope, the Royal's newly appointed event organiser! Can you help her plan an unforgettable party and save the day? Meet characters from the royal staff, make decorations, create menus, design costumes and help bring the whole extravaganza to life.
30th May 10:30am North Shields CFC
30th May 1:30pm Whitley Bay CFC
31st May 10:30am White Swan Centre
31st May 1:30pm Wallsend CFC
White Swan Centre
31st May 12.30-3pm Jubilee Afternoon Tea at the White Swan Centre
Wallsend Customer First Centre
Friday 27th May - 11:30am– Performance by LD North East – Followed by Garden Party with refreshments with an acoustic guitar performance by Ed Liggett
Monday 30th May – 2pm – Jubilee Themed Toddler Tales & Crafts
Monday 30th May – 2pm – Movie Matinee – “A Royal Night Out”.
Tuesday 31st May – 2pm – Jubilee Themed Rhymetime & Crafts
Wednesday 1st June – 10:00am Children’s Jubilee Crafts
Wednesday 1st June – 2pm – Family Movie – Minions.
North Shields Customer First Centre
Jubilee Tea Party for regular room bookers and groups – Wednesday 1st June (invitation only)
Children’s Jubilee craft sessions (all day) - Monday 30th May, Tuesday 31st May & Wednesday 1st June
Whitley Bay Customer First Centre
Decorate a crown competition for children from Tuesday 3rd May until 6th June.
Tea and scone morning Wednesday 1st June, 9:30am-12pm
Oxford Centre
Royal themed quiz with refreshments 31st May 10-12.30, picture quiz and music 2.30-4.30pm and a children’s royal treasure hunt in Longbenton Library throughout the day.
John Willie Sams Centre
Royal-ly Good Crafts at Dudley Library on 31st May – drop in anytime between 9am – 12.30pm
Dudley luncheon club Jubilee Afternoon tea at JWSC on 1st June – 12pm (nominal charge applies)
Battle Hill Library
Tuesday 31st May – 10am – Children’s Jubilee Crafts & refreshments
Forest Hall Library
Tuesday 31st May – 10:30am – Children’s Jubilee Rhymetime, crafts & refreshments
Howdon Library
Children’s drawing competition, closing date 31st May
Tuesday 7th June – 3.30pm - Children’s Jubilee Celebration picnic, crafts & games
Wideopen Library
Thursday 26th May – 10am & 2pm – Children’s Jubilee crafts & refreshments
Saturday 28th May – 10am – Children’s Jubilee crafts & refreshments
Tuesday 31st May 2:30pm Jubilee Quiz and refreshments (aimed at adults).
Shiremoor Library
Jubilee Tea Party on 31st May from 10am -12pm and 2pm – 4pm.
Cullercoats Library
Jubilee fact quiz for adults and a competition for children to design a Jubilee related crown
Children’s Jubilee crafts on 31st May 2.30pm
Open house refreshments 31st May 11-1 and 2-4
Monkseaton Library
Jubilee Children’s crafts, 31st May 10am-12:30pm & 2pm-4pm
Libraries at Home
Jubilee celebration for Libraries at Home readers and volunteers, with refreshments, music, quizzes and old photos to prompt memories, 1st June (by invitation).
