Dear Parents/Carers,
WORLD BOOK DAY COMING SOON!
After half term, we will be celebrating World Book Day and promoting a love of reading in school with activities over the week. It will start with a whole school assembly which will introduce and explain all about World Book Day and the week ahead.
Wednesday 1st March – KS2 children will be having a fantastic author visit from James Nichol, author of The Apprentice Witch series and The Spell Tailors. Afterwards James will visit Year 3 classrooms to lead a creative writing workshop with Turtles and Starfish.
Book Signing
James will be staying in school for a book signing session in the afternoon. Some children may like to purchase a signed book of The Spell Tailors.(Books cost £7.99, please make payment as soon as possible on ParentPay so we can place our order). Please note that there is no pressure or expectation to buy one: we will also be purchasing copies for school, so children won’t miss out on reading them!
Thursday 2nd March – Actual World Book Day.
Non-Uniform – Children may come to school dressed to represent their favourite book or character. Please don’t feel the need to buy expensive fancy dress for this occasion: the children are so keen on being eco-conscious and re-using items you already have at home. Equally, please don’t feel any pressure to make an elaborate costume. Here are some simple ideas below:
-re-use Halloween costumes (cats, witches, skeletons, wizards feature in lots of stories)
-re-use other costumes (animals, superheroes & princesses feature in lots of stories)
–characters wearing old fashioned clothes (Famous Five, World War stories)
-characters wearing pyjamas (BFG, I’m Going on a bear Hunt, The Polar Express)
-inspiration from sports stars/real life hero books
-use our Drop & Swap Trolley in the foyer to recycle old costumes. You can drop old costumes off or give costumes a new home.
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We understand that some children feel uncomfortable wearing fancy dress. They may choose to wear their own comfy reading clothes instead – we want all children to enjoy the day.
Special Lunch Menu
We will have a special themed lunch on offer this day.
Pop-Up Bookshop
We are collaborating with local independent book store, Pengwern Books, to open our own Pop-Up Book Shop in The Coach House so that all children can use their World Book Day token to select their own book to take home. Classes will have a slot to visit throughout the day.
Friday 3rd March
EYFS and KS1 Children will have a visit from local storyteller Sal Tongue. We will have our DEAR slot as normal at 2:45pm (Drop Everything And Read!) but we’ll be changing this up with a fun variation this week.
We are really looking forward to the things we have planned and we are sure the children will really enjoy themselves.
Kind regards,
Mrs Young
KS1 Leader & Reading Co-ordinator