World Book Day

 

St Joseph’s Primary School Celebrates World Book Day with Creative Dress-Up

In a celebration of literacy and creativity, St Joseph’s Primary School marked World Book Day with children invited to come to school dressed as a ‘word’; bringing language to life in a vibrant and imaginative way.

The school was alive with children transformed into colourful walking embodiments of words, such as triumphant, iridescent, fatigued, spotty and storm, to name but a few. From "sparkling" princesses to "enchanting" wizards, the costumes were as diverse as the words they represented. All this sparked curiosity, conversation and excitement throughout the school.

Children from Emerald Class dressed up in costumes that represent the words: 'retro', 'spotty', 'soldier', 'wizard', 'dazzle' and 'storm'. 

In the morning, a ‘reading swap’ was organised so that children in KS2 joined our children in KS1, Nursery and Reception to share a beautiful moment reading with them.

St Joseph’s also hosted a Scholastic Book Fair giving the children an opportunity to use their World Book Day £1 book token to either get a £1 off a book of their choice or swap it for one of the especially published World Book Day books.

Junior Librarians celebrating World Book Day at the Book Fair

As the day ended, children gathered for a special assembly where they joined in with a quiz and shared their creative alternative book covers. Prizes of book vouchers for the book fair were awarded to the winners of the best book covers. It was a fitting conclusion to a day filled with creativity, laughter, and a shared love of books.

Cillian - Amethyst Class - with winning book cover design.

Rionagh - Sapphire Class - with winning book cover design.

The children all agreed that they had the most magical, fun day sharing their favourite books.

Executive Headteacher, Miss Clare McFlynn, expressed her delight at the creativity displayed by the children, stating, "World Book Day is a wonderful opportunity for our children to celebrate the joy of reading and language.”.

Book Fair

The

BOOK FAIR 

has arrived!

Our celebrations for WORLD BOOK DAY have begun.

Classes have been visiting the Book Fair during the school day and the children have been 

enjoying looking at the books and making Wish Lists that they can share at home.

Every child will receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token that can be used at the book fair or swapped for one of the World Book Day books either at our fair or at your local bookseller. To find out more about World Book Day log-on to https://worldbookday.com

If you wish to purchase any books from the Wish List you can pay for their chosen books using the online payment system at www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay. Please make sure the Wish List is returned to school so that the books can be given to your child.

Children will be able to bring money to purchase books on the day that they are scheduled to come to the Fair. Please provide the money in an envelope clearly marked with their name and class and give it to your child, teacher or the school office. 

Payments can be made at the fair using contactless and cash.

You can purchase gift vouchers or make payments online. Go to www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/gift-vouchers to buy vouchers. Please let the school know what books have been purchased online so that we can give them to your child.

Remember when you buy one book we get one FREE for the library!

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World Book Day and Book Fair

 

St Joseph’s World Book Day and Book Fair
Thursday 6^th March 2025

St Joseph’s World Book Day 2025 will take place on Thursday 6th March. 

On the 6th of March we would like the children to come into school dressed as a ‘word’. Your child may come to school dressed as an adjective such as “colourful” and wear their rainbow clothes; other adjectives may include: contagious, sparkly, spotty or horrifying. Alternatively, they may come to school as a noun and dress as “Christmas” in their best Christmas jumper or “Princess” in their favourite costume. There are lots of examples online and we encourage you to be as creative as you can be. We would also like all children to redesign an alternative book cover for their favourite books illustrating it with colourful images. There will be £5 book vouchers for our Book Fair to be won for the best book covers.

To celebrate World Book Day, we will also 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.

Celebrate Reading at our Book Fair!

Please follow this link to your Book Fair Invitation scholastic-book-fair-invitation-spring-2025-2299252.pdf.

At the fair you will be able to purchase books using contactless credit or debit cards or cash.

If you’re unable to visit the book fair, your child will be sent home with a Wish List and you can pay for their chosen books using the online payment link at www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay. Please make sure the Wish List is returned to school so that the books can be given to your child.

Pre-paid gift vouchers are also available. Go to www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/gift-vouchers to buy vouchers.

Your child will have an opportunity to visit the book fair during the school day with their class.

Thursday 27th February	Year 3 and Year 2
Friday 28th February	Nursery and Reception
Monday 3rd March	Year 1 and Year 5
Tuesday 4th March	Year 6 and Year 4
Wednesday 5th March	Last Day of Book Fair
Thursday 6th March	Book Fair Collected

They will be able to bring in cash to purchase books on that day or they will be given a Wish List. Please put money in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name and class. 

Every child will also receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token that can be used at the book fair if they so wish or swapped for one of the World Book Day books either at our fair or at your local bookseller. To find out more about World Book Day and how you can use the £1 book token log-on to www.worldbookday.com.

To keep up-to-date with our book fair news log-on to our library blog at www.ilovereadingatstjosephs.blogspot.com.

Don’t forget that every book you buy helps towards FREE BOOKS for our school library. The last Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success for St Joseph’s making over £2000 in FREE BOOKS.

We thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you at the book fair.

World Book Day

St Joseph’s Primary School Celebrates World Book Day with Creative Dress-Up

 

In a celebration of literacy and imagination, St Joseph’s Primary School (Outstanding 2023 Ofsted Rating) marked World Book Day with a unique twist this year. Instead of donning the costumes of their favourite characters, children embraced the power of words by dressing up as literary terms, bringing language to life in vibrant and imaginative ways.

The halls of St Joseph’s were alive with children transformed into colourful walking embodiments of words, such as quirky, affluent, fragile, somnolent and float, to name but a few. From "sparkling" fairies to "mischievous" foxes, the costumes were as diverse as the words they represented. All this sparked curiosity, conversation and excitement throughout the school with Billy (Year 3), who came as a “playful” pup, saying it was “the most incredible World Book Day ever”.

Executive Headteacher, Miss Clare Mcflynn, expressed her delight at the creativity displayed by the children, stating, "World Book Day is a wonderful opportunity for our children to celebrate the joy of reading and language. It was a truly inspiring day”.

St Joseph’s also hosted a Scholastic Book Fair giving the children an opportunity to use their World Book Day £1 book token to either get a £1 off a book of their choice or swap it for one of the especially published World Book Day books.

Isaac (Orange Class) lucky winner of quiz at the book fair.

Tahlia (Diamond Class) lucky winner of book cover competition.

Cain (Indigo Class) lucky winner of quiz..

As the day ended, children gathered for a special assembly where they joined in with a quiz and shared their creative alternative book covers. Prizes of book vouchers for the book fair were awarded to the winners of the quiz. It was a fitting conclusion to a day filled with creativity, laughter, and a shared love of books.

BOOK FAIR

Our BOOK FAIR 

has arrived!

WHEN: Thursday 7th March - Wednesday 13th March

TIMES: 8:40 - 9:00am and 3:00 - 3:45pm

WHERE: New Conference Room

Please follow this link to your Book Fair Invitation scholastic-book-fair-invite-spring-24-2238488.pdf

At the fair you will be able to purchase books using contactless credit or debit cards or cash.

If you’re unable to visit the book fair, your child will be sent home with a Wish List and you can pay for their chosen books using the online payment link at www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay. Please make sure the Wish List is returned to school so that the books can be given to your child.

Pre-paid gift vouchers are also available. Go to www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/gift-vouchers to buy vouchers.

Your child will have an opportunity to visit the book fair during the school day with their class.

Thursday 7th March	Nursery, Reception, Year 1
Tuesday 12th March	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4
Wednesday 13th March	Year 5, Year 6
Thursday 14th March	Book Fair Collected

They will be able to bring in cash to purchase books on that day or they will be given a Wish List. Please put money in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name and class

Every child will also receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token that can be used at the book fair if they so wish or swapped for one of the World Book Day books either at our fair or at your local bookseller. To find out more about World Book Day and how you can use the £1 book token log-on to www.worldbookday.com.

 

To keep up-to-date with our book fair news log-on to our library blog at www.ilovereadingatstjosephs.blogspot.com.

Celebrate Reading at our Book Fair! 

World Book Day & Book Fair

BOOK FAIR

COMING SOON 

on WORLD BOOK DAY!!

Every child will also receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token that can be used at the book fair if they so wish or swapped for one of the World Book Day books either at our fair or at your local bookseller. To find out more about World Book Day and how you can use the £1 book token log-on to www.worldbookday.com. 

HELP earn free books for your school.

remember every book you buy means that we get a book for our library.

Arriving

Thursday 7th March 2024

Leaving 

Wednesday 13th March 2024

In

 New Conference Room

Open Daily at

8:40 - 9:00am & 3:00 - 3:45pm

Follow this link to your invitation

We look forward to seeing you all.

 

World Book Day and Book Fair

 

St Joseph’s World Book Day and Book Fair
Thursday 7^th March 2024

St Joseph’s World Book Day 2024 will take place on Thursday 7th March. 

On the 7th of March we would like the children to come into school dressed as a ‘word’. Your child may come to school dressed as an adjective such as “colourful” and wear their rainbow clothes; other adjectives may include: contagious, sparkly, spotty or horrifying. Alternatively, they may come to school as a noun and dress as “Christmas” in their best Christmas jumper or “Princess” in their favourite costume. There are lots of examples online and we encourage you to be as creative as you can be. We would also like all children to redesign an alternative book cover for their favourite books illustrating it with colourful images. There will be £5 book vouchers for our Book Fair to be won for the best book covers.

 

To celebrate World Book Day, we will also 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.

Celebrate Reading at our Book Fair!

WHEN: Thursday 7th March - Wednesday 13th March

TIMES: 8:40 - 9:00am and 3:00 - 3:45pm

WHERE: New Conference Room

Please follow this link to your Book Fair Invitation scholastic-book-fair-invite-spring-24-2238488.pdf

At the fair you will be able to purchase books using contactless credit or debit cards or cash.

If you’re unable to visit the book fair, your child will be sent home with a Wish List and you can pay for their chosen books using the online payment link at www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay. Please make sure the Wish List is returned to school so that the books can be given to your child.

Pre-paid gift vouchers are also available. Go to www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/gift-vouchers to buy vouchers.

Your child will have an opportunity to visit the book fair during the school day with their class.

Thursday 7th March	Nursery, Reception, Year 1
Tuesday 12th March	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4
Wednesday 13th March	Year 5, Year 6
Thursday 14th March	Book Fair Collected

They will be able to bring in cash to purchase books on that day or they will be given a Wish List. Please put money in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name and class

Every child will also receive a World Book Day £1 Book Token that can be used at the book fair if they so wish or swapped for one of the World Book Day books either at our fair or at your local bookseller. To find out more about World Book Day and how you can use the £1 book token log-on to www.worldbookday.com.

 

To keep up-to-date with our book fair news log-on to our library blog at www.ilovereadingatstjosephs.blogspot.com.

Don’t forget that every book you buy helps towards FREE BOOKS for our school library. The last Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success for St Joseph’s making over £1500 in FREE BOOKS.

We thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you at the book fair.

World Book Day

St Joseph’s World Book Day and Book Fair
Thursday 2nd March 2023

World Book Day at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School and Nursery was a fabulous celebration. This year we gave each child a wooden spoon to decorate as their favourite book character and asked them to bring in a photo showing them reading in their favourite place such as a comfy chair or in the park.

 

On the day, children were invited to come into school wearing their favourite pyjamas, onesies or comfy clothes with their photo of them reading in their favourite comfy place, their decorated spoons and, if possible a copy of the book the character was from.

Children came into school with an impressive array of designs for their spoon book characters. It was truly amazing to see such creativity. We spent the day cosying up with books, sharing stories, watching virtual author talks, making bookmarks and covers plus holding a whole-school book quiz.

 There was lots of cosy-reading in the library at lunch time.

Our week-long Book Fair helped us to celebrate World Book Day and gave the children an opportunity to use their £1 World Book Day token to get a £1 off a book of their choice at the Fair or to swap it for a World Book Day book.

Children can redeem their £1 book token for one of the brilliant World Book Day £1 books for FREE at a local bookseller. Token redemption is from 16 February – 26 March 2023.

Happy World Book Day!

World Book Day

 

Thursday 2nd March 2023

St Joseph’s World Book Day 2023 will take place on Thursday 2nd March. 

Children are invited to come into school wearing their favourite pyjamas, onesies or comfy clothes with their decorated spoons and if possible a copy of the book the character is from, for a day of cosy reading.

Bedtime stories all day long!!

 

Book Fair - final day!

 

The BOOK FAIR is leaving!

One last chance to visit the fair and HELP to get FREE books for 

our school.

Every child has been given a WORLD BOOK DAY BOOK £1 VOUCHER which 

can be swopped for a World Book Day Book or to get a £1 off a book at the 

Book Fair.