Hello, hola, ciao, as-salām ‘alaykum, cześć…
My name is Christian and I work at as a Senior Customer Services Assistant at Brompton Library. On behalf of all the staff here we welcome all our customers and readers from around the world to the latest edition of The Brompton Blog.
For those of you who don’t know Brompton Library, we are a medium-sized library eight minutes walk from Earls Court tube station. Local residents, people who work nearby, students and tourists all use Brompton Library – we have something for everyone.
Christian Stevens
Senior Customer Services Assistant
The Summer Reading Challenge and Chatterbooks
We’ve had a great start to the Summer Reading Challenge this year – over sixty children have already signed up to take part and three children have already finished. This means they have read and talked about six books with library staff. More information about this summer reading scheme ( as well as lots of exciting summer events) can be found on our Summer Reading Challenge webpage.
I told the children who came to our last Chatterbooks reading group all about the Summer Reading Challenge and I encouraged them all to take part. The children like the ‘creepy’ theme and really enjoyed doing a Creepy House word search.
Our next Chatterbooks meeting will be on Monday 16 September. If you’d like your child to to come along please speak to a member of library staff. There’s also more information on our Chatterbooks webpage.
Babita Sinha
Senior Customer Services Assistant
Premier League Reading Stars at Brompton Library
In our May 2013 blog post I wrote about the Premier League Reading Stars (PLRS) scheme we’ve been hosting at Brompton Library with children from one of our local schools, St Cuthbert with St Matthias. We’ve had a “fixture” every Tuesday after school for the last ten weeks.
Rob Symmons, from Chelsea library, and I have been delivering football-themed activities with the goal of improving the children’s literacy skills and embedding an enthusiasm for reading. It’s been an interesting learning experience for us as well as the kids with some yellow cards handed out along the way but, at the final whistle, we’re all over the moon that the season has now ended! (Apologies for the high number of footballing clichés in that last sentence!)
In mid-June we had an away fixture at Queens Park Rangers Football Club who supported PLRS for the second year running. Jesse Foyle, QPR’s Education Manager, gave us a behind-the-scenes tour of the ground and then sprang a quiz on our players. It was a big ask but they rose to the occasion.
Our final fixture allowed us to celebrate the children’s achievements with their proud parents and families – each child gets a certificate and we had party food and drinks. By the time you read this I can honestly say – they think it’s all over, it is now!
Stephanie Webb
Lending Librarian
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