WORLD BOOK DAY

World Book Day at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School and Nursery in Highgate was a fabulous celebration to highlight the joys of reading with wonderful costumes, competitions, story-telling and a book fair.

KS1 children

“World Book Day is a great way to get budding bookworms excited about reading and show how magical books can be,” says Head of School, Angela Noronha.

World Book Day costume competition winners

The children and staff came dressed as book characters and gathered for an assembly parading their costumes. What an amazing display of home-made creative costumes. A Year 6 child came as the entire Hans Christian Andersen tale ‘The Princess and the Pea’ including bed! We had a very convincing Sherlock Holmes and a fabulous book fairy!  The best costumes were awarded ‘Willy Wonka Golden Ticket’ style book vouchers to spend at our book fair and every child received a World Book Day £1 book token.

World Book Day Costume Competition Winners in the Library

The day was spent with children sharing stories with each other in class and in our wonderful school library.

Our Senior Leadership Team and Administrative Staff dressed as Mr. Men characters.

Well done and keep sharing stories!

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 at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Highgate was celebrated in style on Thursday 7^th March with both children and teachers coming to school in wonderful book character costumes

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.

Angela Noronha, Head of School, said “World Book Day is a great opportunity to raise the profile of reading across the whole school community and helps children to engage with books in exciting ways”.

                     

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

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!

World Book Day

HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY!

Share a story

Spending just 10 minutes a day reading and sharing stories with children can make a crucial difference their outcome and its fun for all involved. You can read together anywhere and everywhere, from breakfast to bedtime! 

Please join-in!

Swap your World Book Day £1 for a book

 Exchange your World Book Day £1 token for one of TEN special World Book Day Books.

Find these books at our BOOK FAIR.

See you at our Book Fair in the School Library