To
encourage imagination and the fun of reading children and teachers came to
school dressed as their favourite book characters. The children were greeted in
the morning by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, otherwise known as Michal, the
Premises Manager, the Senior Leadership and Administrative Team!!
The
children had an opportunity to parade their costumes in a whole-school
assembly. It was truly amazing to see such a display of the children’s
creativity with many of the costumes home-made. We had characters from such
celebrated books as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic
Mr Fox’ and ‘Matilda’. We had Cruella de Vil from ‘‘The Hundred and One
Dalmatians’ not to mention many Gangsta Grannies and Grandpas from David
Williams’ popular books. The children also showed their creativity in the
choice of book characters. One child in Year 3 had transformed herself into the
Mad Hatter’s tea party table from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll and
another had come as a very convincing bookworm! Puck from Shakespeare’s ‘A
Midsummer Night’s Dream’ also turned up.
Each class had the daunting task of
selecting the best costumes which were awarded ‘Willy Wonka Golden Ticket’
style book vouchers. All the winners were invited to our Scholastic Book Fair
and with great excitement they all exchanged their Golden Tickets for a book of
their choice.
The children were also encouraged
to participate in the World Book Day campaign of ‘Share a Story’ and they spent
much of the day sharing stories with each other in class, in the library and in
the playground; with older children reading to the younger ones.
Our week long Book Fair helped us
celebrate World Book Day and gave the children an opportunity to get a book
using their £1 World Book Day token.
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