Digital Steps/Skinny Jump

The Digital Steps (Stepping Up) programme aims to provide free digital skills training for people who are seeking to improve employment opportunities or enhance their computer skills in general.

Each module runs for up to 2 hours and will be delivered by a Community Librarian. Classes are delivered in very small groups.

Get Lit! Teen Winter Reading Challenge

Our Get Lit! Winter Reading Programme for teens starts Friday 4 June! The teen challenge card is open to library members aged 13 to 17 years. The bingo card is back as are the challenge squares!
 
The challenge lasts for 12 weeks!

Get Lit! Adult Winter Reading Challenge

Our Get Lit! Winter Reading Programme starts Friday 4 June! This year we again have a teen challenge card as well as an adult challenge card.

The bingo card is back as are the challenge squares!

The challenge lasts for 12 weeks!

Te Awamutu Lego Club

Te Awamutu Lego Club is here!

Lego Club is a free hour of fun where kids can use their imagination to create, build and play. Look out for challenges and fun themes too!

All children aged 5-12 are welcome to join in.

Wriggle & Rhyme

Check out the FREE 30-minute Wriggle & Rhyme sessions at a library near you during the school term!

Wriggle & Rhyme sessions are designed for children from birth to two years old, and guide parents through a range of movement activities that they can also use at home with their children.

No need to register, just turn up!

Makerspace Tuesdays

Come and get creative and hands-on with fun science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) projects!

Participants register for the term. Ages 8 up to 13.

Classes will be delivered virtually from 4 May to 17 August.

Toddler Time

A fun-filled programme featuring stories, crafts, music and interactive fun.

Toddler Time is tailored specifically for age 2-5 years and is designed to enhance social, cognitive, motor and musical skills.

No need to register, just turn up!

Makerspace Thursdays

Come and get creative and hands-on with fun science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics projects!

Thursday afternoons at Te Awamutu Library during the school term.

Participants register for the term. Ages 8 up to 13.

Family Fun Night

Our libraries are open late on a Friday night until 8pm.

Come along and watch one of our scheduled movies from 6pm.

Schedules are displayed inside the libraries (Te Awamutu available on request).

Ko Matariki mai Te Wharepukapuka Kemureti

Celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year! Create stars at Cambridge Library (Wharepukapuka Kemureti).

Matariki is a cluster of stars that signals the beginning of the Māori New Year. It is a special time of year.

Enjoy stories, song and some star craft.

Drop in any time between 10am and 11am, but if you wish to undertake some craft, please give yourself 30 minutes to complete a project.

Let's get crafty: School holiday programme

The theme for the School Holiday programme in July is Let's Get Crafty!

Join us in-house for an array of crafts to suit ages 5-12 years.

There is no need to register, but please note that children must be accompanied by an adult.

Mini Makers

Come along to a taster session of Makerspace STEAM activities and Lego!

Suitable for ages 5 and above.

No need to register. Just turn up!

Ko Matariki mai Te Aroha Tauroa

Celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year! Create stars with Te Aroha Tauroa.

Matariki is a cluster of stars that signals the beginning of the Māori New Year.  It is a special time of year.

Inside the Te Awamutu Library, children's area. Drop in any time, but please give yourself at least 30 minutes before the session is scheduled to end to complete a project.

PK Kids Cambridge. Powered by PechaKucha.

A PechaKucha presentation is a format that uses slides or images that are displayed for usually 20 seconds each. The slides move automatically as the presenter is speaking. This format ensures that the speaker is concise, keeps the presentation moving, and gets through all of their content.

My Grandfather/ Grandmother was a ...

An insight into researching your family history with Richard Cato from the NZ Society of Genealogists (Te Awamutu Branch).

No matter what your level, or where you are at with your research, there will be something for everyone, including starting out, best resources, DNA, putting your research together and publishing your research (whether that is a family story or as a family reference).

Genealogy for beginners

Join Family History Librarian at Hamilton City Libraries Shelley North for an introduction on how to get started with researching your family history.

Shelley will also cover the resources that are held in Hamilton City Libraries that may be of use to researchers.

Book Club Te Awamutu

If you love reading books, sharing books, chatting to others about books and finding new books to read, come along to an enjoyable evening where you can share your favourite titles with other book lovers while enjoying light refreshments provided by the library.

First Reader Book Club Cambridge

If you love reading books, sharing books, chatting to others about books and finding new books to read, come along to an enjoyable evening where you can share your favourite titles with other book lovers while enjoying light refreshments provided by the library.

Music & Memory - Palliser Viols on the Main Trunk Line 2021

Trains, pots, musings, music for consort of viols: a strange, unexpected combination united in this series of concerts with readings from the ‘wrertings’ of Barry Brickell.

Te Awamutu Library is the location for the Te Awamutu Outreach event, a chance for people to hear the music, and speak with the performers. School parties will be welcomed, and casual ‘walk-ins’ encouraged. The concert will take place that evening at The Woolshed, Te Awamutu.