ROALD DAHL DAY

Roald Dahl Day  

Sunday 13th September 

 

Monday 14th September DRESS-UP DAY Years 1 - 6 

 

Roald Dahl Day takes place on 13th September every year and marks the anniversary of the birth of the world’s number one storyteller. Roald Dahl wrote 39 books for children and adults, creating many characters such as Charlie Bucket, Matilda Wormwood, the Twits and the BFG.

 

To celebrate we invite children in Years 1 – 6 to come to school on Monday 14th September dressed as their favourite Roald Dahl character. We will be organising various ‘phizz-whizzing’ activities and there will be a COMPETITION for the best costumes. The winners will each receive a ‘splendiferous’ Roald Dahl book.

 

So, remember to don your Willy Wonka top hat or your fantastic bushy Mr Fox tail for a Dahlicious Dress-up Day! Don't forget, yellow was Roald Dahl's favourite colour so you can join in the Dahlicious Dress Up Day by wearing anything yellow.

 

For further information log-on to: https://www.roalddahl.com/charity/get-involved/roald-dahl-story-day-fundraising/dressing-up-tips

WORLD BOOK DAY

DRESS UP

COMPETITION

Amethyst

Giselle – ‘The Princess and the Pea’ by Hans Christian Andersen

Violet

Celino – ‘Paddington’ by Michael Bond

Lavender

Joshua – ‘The BFG’ by Roald Dahl

Indigo

John-Joseph – Aslan from ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S.Lewis

Tanzanite

Eleanor – Balrog from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sapphire

Miguel – Robot from ‘Kid Normal and the Loudest Library’ by Chris Smith & Greg James

Blue

Jason – Greg Heffley from ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ by Jeff Kinney

Green

Elizabeth – Amy Porter from ‘The Brilliant World of Tom Gates’ by Liz Pichon

Emerald

Milo – Dog Man from ‘Dog Man’ by Dav Pilkey

Yellow

Natalia – The Book Fairy

Diamond

Akira – Sherlock Holmes

Orange

Oscar – Link from ‘The Legend of Zelda’

Amber

Elena Curran – Matilda from ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl

Ruby

Sebastian – Hairy Maclary from ‘Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy’ by Lynley Dodd

Red

Max – Bob from ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram

White

Damien – Mr Tickle from ‘Mr. Men’ by Adam and Roger Hargreaves

Pearl

Gabriel – Caterpillar from ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle

Little Gems

Eoghan – The Mad Hatter from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll

WELL DONE EVERYONE!

WORLD BOOK DAY!

THURSDAY 5th MARCH

St Joseph’s

WORLD BOOK DAY

Thursday 5th March

·       Dress Up as a book character

£5 Book Vouchers for the best costumes

·       Share-a-story from breakfast till bedtime!

·       Book Fair with Scholastic from Thursday 27^th February to Thursday 5^th March

·       World Book Day £1 Tokens use at Book Fair or swap for a World Book Day book at your local bookseller.

World Book Day!

WORLD BOOK DAY is tomorrow

THURSDAY 7TH MARCH

Children to dress up as a book character 

&

bring in a book to share a story.

Let's share a story from breakfast to bedtime!

World Book Day- Thursday 7th March!

World Book Day & Book Fair

St Joseph’s

World Book Day

Thursday 7th March 2019

And

Book Fair

St Joseph’s World Book Day 2019 will take place on Thursday 7th March.  The children are encouraged to DRESS UP as their favourite book character. There will be a COMPETITION for the best costumes with prizes of book vouchers to be used at our Book Fair.

To celebrate World Book Day we will be hosting a Book Fair, with hundreds of new children’s books to browse and buy. With prices starting from only £2.99, there’s sure to be a book for everyone.

When: Thursday 28^th February – Thursday 7th March

Times: 8:40 – 9:00am and 3:00 – 3:45pm

Where: New Conference Room

If you are unable to attend the Book Fair, books can be purchased in the following ways:

1. You can browse books online with your child at bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/parents.

To make a purchase send the money or the discounted Gift Vouchers purchased online into the school office in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name, class and title(s) of book(s).

2. Your child can select their own book(s) during the school day. Please provide the money in an envelope clearly marked with their name and class and give it to your child or the school office.

Every child will also receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token which can be used at the Book 

Fair.

A mini catalogue will be sent home. Please check your child’s school bag.

We will also be joining the nationwide event to enjoy the pleasures of reading and SHARE A STORY on World Book Day, giving out stickers to all the children who participate. Spending just 10 minutes a day reading and sharing stories with children can make a crucial difference to their outcome and its fun for all involved. You can read together anywhere and everywhere, from breakfast to bedtime! Please join-in!

To find out more about World Book Day log-on to www.worldbookday.com. To keep up-to-date with our Book Fair news log-on to our library blog: ilovereadingatstjosephs.blogspot.com.

Don’t forget that every book you buy can help towards FREE BOOKS for our school library! The last Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success for St Joseph’s making nearly £2000 in FREE BOOKS for our Library. We hope it can be even bigger and better this time.

Thank you for your continued support and happy WORLD BOOK DAY!

Roald Dahl Day

We are celebrating Roald Dahl Day on Thursday 13th September.
Children in Years 1 - 6 are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite character from one of his books
or
wear something yellow as it was Roald Dahl's favourite colour.

Remember there is a competition for the best costume and prizes of Golden Ticket Book Vouchers for our November Book Fair.

World Book Day Dress Up

World Book Day

Dress Up

Competition 

Pearl – Diego – Zog from ‘Zog’ by Julia Donaldson. Prize: ‘Dinosaurs Love Underpants’ by Claire Freedman

White – Fryderyk – Dinosaur from ‘How to Grow a Dinosaur’ by Caryl Hart. Prize: ‘Zog and the Flying Doctors’ by Julia Donaldson

Red – Joe  - Stickman from ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson. Prize: ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell

Ruby – Evie – Matilda from ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl. Prize: ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson

Amber – Dominic – Dusty from ‘Disney Planes’. Prize: ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’ by Tracey Corderoy

Orange – Isabella-Mia – White Rabbit from ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll. Prize: ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ by Judith Kerr

Yellow – Ella-Grace – Owl from ‘Blossom Wood’ by Catherine Coe. Prize: ‘The Fox and the Ghost King’ by Michael Morpurgo

Diamond – Reece –Kung Fu Panda: The Junior Novel by Susan Korman. Prize: ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ by Roald Dahl

Green – William – Steve  from Minecraft. Prize: ‘My Brother is a Superhero’ by David Solomons

Emerald – Anna – Miss Root from ‘Demon Dentist’ by David Walliams. Prize: ‘The Last Wolf’ by Michael Morpurgo

Blue – Celino – Giant Peach from ‘James and the Giant Peach’ by Roald Dahl. Prize: My Brother is a Superhero’ by David Solomans

Sapphire – Frankie – Zog from ‘Zog’ by Julia Donaldson. Prize: ‘The Treehouse Fun Book’ by Andy Griffiths (Signed copy)

Indigo – Maisha – Gangsta Granny from ‘Gangsta Granny’ by David Walliams. Prize: ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl

Tanzanite – Nina – London Eye from ‘The London Eye Mystery’ by Siobhan Dowd. Prize: ‘Four Children and It’ by Jacqueline Wilson

Amethyst – Leo – Skulduggery Pleasant from ‘Skulduggery Pleasant’ by Derek Landy. Prize: ‘There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom’ by Louis Sachar

Violet – Georgine – Hilda from ‘Hilda and the Troll’ by Luke Pearson. Prize: ‘My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord’ by David Solomons

Congratulations to the winners of our World Book Day Dress Up Competition.
Thank you for everyone who participated and made such wonderful and creative costumes.

HAPPY EASTER

Keep Reading!

World Book Day

This year we celebrated World Book Day on Friday 9^th March due to the adverse weather conditions.

World Book Day Dress Up was a roaring success with all children and staff dressing up as their favourite book characters. It was a chance for creativity to shine and many costumes were home-made.

We had a costume parade as part of our World Book Day Assembly and every child received a World Book Day Token which they could use to get a special World Book Day Book from the Book Fair.

The child with the best costume from each class was awarded a golden ticket to be exchanged for a book of their choice. They were all so brilliant so it was hard to choose.

Congratulations to the following golden ticket winners: Diego, Fryderyk, Joe, Evie, Dominic, Isabella-Mia, Ella-Grace, Reece, William, Anna, Celino, Frankie, Maisha, Nina, Leo, and Georgine.

Share A Story was the theme of this year’s World Book Day and the children were encouraged throughout the day to share a story anytime and anywhere. Special stickers were given to the children as a reward.

Nursery and Reception classes visited Years 5 and 6 classes where they shared stories with their buddies.

We invited one of our local bookshops, Pickled Pepper Books, to arrange a Book Fair for the week and we transformed our library into a mini-bookshop with a fantastic selection of children’s books. We also had the wonderful World Book Day books for which the children could exchange their World Book Day Tokens; a book for every child.

Together we raised more than £700 and earned credit to use on new books for our school library. We will be able to choose from the latest releases so that we keep up-to-date with children’s books.

Thank you to everyone for helping to make it such a fantastic day!

Dress Up Day

World Book Day Dress Up Day

Friday 9th March

Here at St Joseph's we are celebrating World Book Day with a whole-school Dress Up Day.

World Book Day 2017

Executive Headteacher as Gangsta Granny WBD 2015

Come along dressed as your favourite book character and join in the celebrations.

There will be prizes for the best costumes.

Be creative!

World Book Day Dress Up

CANCELLATION

World Book Day Dress Up Day on Friday 2nd March has been cancelled. 

It has been re-arranged for next week on Friday 9th March.

Happy World Book Day!

World Book Day

World Book Day

We will be celebrating World Book Day with a whole school 

Dress Up 

Children, staff and parents are invited to dress up as their favourite book character. There will be prizes for the best costumes.

Sharing a Story  

in class-time and playtime

Book Fair 

in our school library with our local bookshop

&

£1 Book Tokens 

for every child to exchange for a free book.

Celebrate stories. Love Reading

worldbookday.com

Roald Dahl Day

                 Roald Dahl Day – Wednesday 13^th September

Roald Dahl Day takes place on 13 September every year and marks the anniversary of the birth of the world’s number one storyteller. He wrote 39 books for children and adults, creating many ‘gloriump-tious’ characters such as Charlie Bucket, Matilda Wormwood, The Twits and the BFG.

To celebrate we invite children in Year 1 – 6 to come dressed as their favourite Roald Dahl character.  There will be a COMPETITION for the best costumes and the winners will receive splendiferous Roald Dahl books.  We will be hosting various phizz-whizzing activities to celebrate.

So remember to don your Willy Wonka top hat or your fantastic bushy Mr Fox tail for a Dahlicious Dress-up Day!

World Book Day - Dress-Up Competition

We had a very booky

World Book Day!

Take a look at our photo gallery.

Infant Assembly

Reading Sessions in the playground

DRESS-UP COMPETION WINNERS







Poppy - Mad-Hatter and Aretha - Queen of Hearts (Amber Class)

Oliver - Wally and Dani - Cat in the Hat (Citrine Class)

Frankie - Umpa Lumpa and Cecilia - Elliott, the Dragon  (White)

Ava - ...the Wardrobe and Bethany - BFG (Orange)

Mia and Gracie - Queen of Hearts (Yellow Class)

Brandon - Willy Wonka and Tilly - Snow Queen (Diamond)

Narelle - Hazel Wong and Leo - Poseidon (Tanzanite)

Celino - Pirate and Grace - Alice in Wonderland (Emerald)

Henry - Mr Strong and Maisie - Queen of Hearts (Green)

Alice - Child-catcher and Jack - Willy Wonka (Indigo)

Zia - Pharaoh and Alessia - Mad hatter (Violet Class)

Ciaran - Robin Hood and Esther - Book of Life (Turquoise)

 

Lana - Grandma Georgina and Arthur - Fantastic Mr Fox (Ruby)

Isabella - Lola and Dominic - Dusty (Red)



Jasmine - Caterpillar and Reece - Sherlock Holmes (Amethyst)



Thomas - Troll and Lily - Dorothy (Pearl)

Congratulations to you all!