{"id":1252,"date":"2026-08-25T06:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2026-08-25T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:05:09","slug":"celebrating-the-national-year-of-reading-in-hampshire-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating The National Year of Reading in Hampshire Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The theme for this summer&#8217;s reading challenge is <em>Read to the Beat<\/em>, and in conjunction with Arts Council England and The Reading Agency, I&#8217;ve been working with Hampshire County Council to deliver workshops across the county to celebrate the rhythm and music in poetry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Offering workshops designed for 4-7 and 8-11 year olds in Aldershot, Basingstoke, Borden and Farnborough libraries over the summer holidays, the project has inspired and engaged children (and their grown-ups) to read and write using performance, props and the willingness to come up with as many disgusting words as possible (and make them rhyme).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project was created with accessibility at its heart and in co-ordination with the Council&#8217;s HAF scheme.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><small>\u00a9 The Reading Agency 2026<\/small>\u00a0<small>read \u2013 The Reading Agency Ltd \u2022 Registered number: 3904882 (England &amp; Wales)<br>Illustrations by Harry Woodgate and \u00a9 The Reading Agency 2026<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this summer&#8217;s reading challenge is Read to the Beat, and in conjunction with Arts Council England and The Reading Agency, I&#8217;ve been working with Hampshire County Council to deliver workshops across the county to celebrate the rhythm and music in poetry. Offering workshops designed for 4-7 and 8-11 year olds in Aldershot, Basingstoke, Borden and Farnborough libraries over the summer holidays, the project has inspired and engaged children (and their grown-ups) to read and write using performance, props and the willingness to come up with as many disgusting words as possible (and make them rhyme). This project was created with accessibility at its heart and in co-ordination with the Council&#8217;s HAF scheme. \u00a9 The Reading Agency 2026\u00a0read \u2013 The Reading Agency Ltd \u2022 Registered number: 3904882 (England &amp; Wales)Illustrations by Harry Woodgate and \u00a9 The Reading Agency 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vicpickup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/readbeat.jpg?fit=531%2C294&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}