Impressions from the reading club from March to July 2025
Since March 2025, two reading clubs have been held every week for 90 minutes each.
During this time, children engage with books, stories and exciting topics. They read, talk, fantasize and make things.
This exciting reading club time can only be made possible thanks to the commitment of volunteer reading mentors.
With a great deal of joy, creativity and empathy, they manage to enable the children to interact with books and train them to read.
The children discover unknown or long-forgotten stories such as fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm or stories by Astrid Lindgren such as Madita or Pippi Longstocking.
In addition to reading aloud and reading to themselves, the children are encouraged to write their own stories or make crafts based on what they have heard/read.
The last reading club for the time being took place in July 2025, before the children and volunteers took a well-deserved summer break.
The program continues in September after the vacations.
There are a few places available for children. If your child is interested in joining the reading club, please contact Ms. Kammholz at the Gronau City Library(a.kammholz@gronau.de) or Ms. Borninkhof at the Grüne-Aue School(m.borninkhof@ga.schule.gronau.de).
We are also looking for more volunteer reading mentors!
If you are interested in joining the reading club, please contact Ms. Kammholz at the Gronau City Library(a.kammholz@gronau.de) or Ms. Borninkhof at the Grüne-Aue School(m.borninkhof@ga.schule.gronau.de).
First reading club in Gronau
Grüne-Aue School and Gronau public library set up reading club
With the aim of providing more educational opportunities for children and young people locally, Stiftung Lesen, in cooperation with the program "Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education." program, awards grants every year for the establishment of a reading club.
Following a successful application process, the Gronau public library and the Grüne-Aue School have been able to establish the first reading club in Gronau as part of their educational partnership. The reading club is a leisure-oriented program for children aged 6-12. The aim is to provide educationally disadvantaged children with a low-threshold offer in their neighborhood in order to weaken the link between social background and personal educational path. With the help of dedicated volunteers who read to the children, read with them, talk to them about what they have read, do handicrafts, paint, do research (and much more), the aim is to awaken children's interest in books and discover the joy of reading. Because one thing is clear: reading is a key skill for academic and professional success and for personal development. "Reading trains empathy, fantasy, critical thinking and imagination," explains Ms. Kammholz, Head of the Gronau Public Library. Ms. Borninkhof, deputy principal of Grüne-Aue-Schule, is delighted with the opportunity to get children excited about reading: "Reading is a beautiful thing! If we can get children to recognize that, we've already achieved a lot!"
The reading club takes place twice a week in the afternoon on the premises of the Grüne-Aue-Schule.
We are looking for more volunteer reading mentors for the reading club. If you are interested in joining the reading club, please contact Ms. Kammholz at the Gronau City Library(a.kammholz@gronau.de) or Ms. Borninkhof at the Grüne-Aue School(m.borninkhof@ga.schule.gronau.de).