Southeast and Northern Lights Teen Gaming

Southeast Branch is one of the larger CML branches, they have 45 pcs, a Homework Help Centre, Job Centre and Storytimes. They have a nice, large quiet study room. We sat in for a Baby Laptime (storytime). We learnt how the story tellers use Ready to Read skills and teach babies skills like colours, touch etc. This was great to watch and really taught the mothers how to interact with their child.

We sat in on an ELT/Board meeting. The board consists of 7 Members. All the Executive Leadership team attend the Board meetings.

Our last stop today was at Northern Lights branch where we attended the Teen Game session. It runs from 3.30-5.30pm every Wednesday. There were about 30 teens today and on average there are between 30- 50. There are 3 stations set up with consoles and one projector and screen that some of the teens use to bring in their own xbox console and equipment and use with others. The kids were having a great time. We got to chat to a few teens and asked them a few questions.