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!

Getting Started with Your Family History - Static Display

Between 2-7 August there will be a static display to help you get started with your family history.

Focusing on beginners and put together by the Te Awamutu Genealogy Group, the display will cover ancestor stories to get you enthused, 6 key steps to get you started on the journey and free handouts to help you make it happen. The library will also have a selection of family history books on display.

St Andrew's Church Sesquicentennial Display

This year, St Andrew's Church celebrates 150 years.

A display will be housed in the Cambridge Library which will include a large scale tin replica of the original church kindly on loan from the Cambridge Museum and Historical Society.

Other events are open to the public during the celebrations.

From Go to Wow! An evening of family history

Something for all levels of experience.

An insight into researching your family history with Richard Cato and others 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 as a research tool, writing up your research to create a story and publishing (whether that is a family story or as a family reference).

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.

Books Alive Special Event - Egg & Spoon

LIANZA and the New Zealand Book Awards Trust are bringing together another year of Books Alive online events and virtual storytimes.

Waipā District Libraries have been chosen again as hosts.

Egg & Spoon, an illustrated cookbook, is a finalist in the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction.

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).

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!

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.

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 24 August.

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.

Family history for children

Join us for a introductory session aimed specifically at children to get them interested in family history.

Children should come accompanied by a family member to enable them to make a start on their enquiries.

Each child will receive a work book that they can take away which will include enquiry sheets and projects to do at home as well as sources for wider investigation.

Libraries closed

Our libraries are closed on Tuesday 17 August 2021.

eResources and Databases are available 24/7.

The Cambridge Library will still be open for the event in the evening on Introduction to Family History.

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.

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!

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.

Craft Supply Swap

Do you have extra craft supplies hanging around at home? Do you love getting new items for your projects? Your unwanted supplies in good and useable condition could be someone else's must have item.

Come along to our second annual Craft Supply Swap!

To find out how it works read on ...