New Westminster Public Library

Library Schedules (May 18-24)

Wednesday

Story Pals-Sweet Treats: 10 a.m. Ages 2-3. A theme-based story time featuring interactive and age-appropriate stories, songs, fingerplays, and activities. With an accompanying adult caregiver.

Read and Play: 11 a.m. Ages birth-24 months. A story time featuring lap games, tickles, bounces, and rhymes followed by a playgroup for meeting and mingling. Siblings welcome.

Thursday

Story Pals-Sweet Treats: 10 and 11 a.m. Ages 2-3. A theme-based story time featuring interactive and age-appropriate stories, songs, fingerplays, and activities. With an accompanying adult caregiver.

Friday

Come Learn with Me at the Library-Alphabetic Principle: 10 a.m. Ages birth-5. This program will feature a variety of play centers and will include time for reading, artwork, lots of play and plenty of surprises, all while building skill development and school readiness. Space is limited and registration is required. Please register children only, but an adult is expected to attend with the child. Registration for this program began May 6.

Saturday

Family Movie Time at the Library: 2 p.m. All ages. All movies are rated G. Feel free to bring a snack and beverages for your family to enjoy. Children 3 and younger must be accompanied by an adult caregiver. This week's movie, Summer Magic, runnint time 109 minutes.

Reservations begin today for the Daddy-Daughter Tea: 11 a.m. June 4. All ages.

Monday

Read and Play: 9:30 a.m. Ages birth-24 months. A story time featuring lap games, tickles, bounces, and rhymes followed by a playgroup for meeting and mingling. Siblings welcome.

On My Own-Circus: 10:30 a.m. Ages 3-6. A theme-based story time for children who are ready for an independent, small group experience. All adult caregivers are welcome.

Tuesday

Story Pals-Circus: 10 a.m. Ages 2-3. A theme-based story time featuring interactive and age-appropriate stories, songs, fingerplays, and activities. With an accompanying adult caregiver.

Read and Play ; 11 a.m. Ages birth-24 months. A story time featuring lap games, tickles, bounces, and rhymes followed by a playgroup for meeting and mingling. Siblings welcome.

Evening Story Time-Circus: 7 p.m. All ages. This story time introduces stories through books, songs, and activities. Children 3 and younger must be accompanied by an adult caregiver.

A Modest Proposal for Hume School | Tenth To The Fraser

Hume Park Elementary has been on the chopping block multiple times (a few examples:  in 2009, and  again in 2010 ), and each time dedicated parents come to its’ defense and each time Hume Park gets voted to stay open and each time everyone breaths a sigh of relief.  Yesterday,  I read that, once again , a trustee is putting forward a motion to consolidate Hume Park with it’s bigger brother up the hill, Richard McBride Elementary. The motion won’t get voted on without another trustee to second it but if it passes, once again the uncertainty will take a toll as potential attendees will be enrolled in neighbouring schools with a more stable future.

I think Hume Park Elementary should be shut down and be turned into a branch of New Westminster Public Library.

I live on the topographically low end of Massey Victory Heights. My son is 2.5 years old and Hume Park is our catchment school.  What happens in our school district here in New Westminster is very much on my radar these days because as Briana pointed out in early 2010 , if you want your child to be enrolled in a “program of choice” (and I do, our sights are set on Montessori ), you have to sign your kid up at birth, essentially, in order to be considered for a spot. So while Kindergarten is just over two years away, I’m paying close attention to what’s going on in our district.

When I moved to this neighbourhood last summer, I was quite caught up with this romantic “Little House on the Prairie” one-room schoolhouse idea that our son would attend Hume Park Elementary (if we lose out on the weird system that is the allotment for Programs of Choice). “Oh, it would be so lovely,” I thought. “All that attention by the staff, all that closeness with his fellow students.” I was quite in love with this charming notion until someone pointed out a few things to me. Namely, Hume Park Elementary doesn’t have a gym, their library is small, and they share their principal with F.W. Howay School. They have 26 students – TWENTY SIX –  currently enrolled in their four grades and they don’t currently have a kindergarten class (only 2 registered this past September). They do have a before and after school care program and they also have an active and dedicated PAC headed by Nikki Binns, and I applaud their tireless dedication to a cause they believe in.

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