World Book Day begins with a fantastic array of characters

Despite the cold and snow, a fantastic array of characters walked the pathways and passages of St Faith’s today! From Mary Poppins to Mrs May, Harry Potter to Winnie the Witch, so many were recreated by staff and children all in aid of World Book Day!

The fun began with Assembly and every child being presented with their book token to spend on either a specially written book for the event or on a book of their choice. Perform For Schools were snowed in but we battled on to deliver creative workshops. The children lost their inhibitions and became pirates, dragons, giants, kings and princesses.

Our very own bank of artists (Mr Clark and Madame Stokes) demonstrated the creation of characters through using our imagination and sharing ideas with talking partners, whilst other classes wrote book reviews of their favourite books inspiring others to enjoy them.

Year 2 shared stories and wrote about various characters acting out their favourite parts before participating in a word hunt.

Year 3 designed their own book covers and had great fun bringing the story of ‘Beowulf’ to life through a drama workshop.

Year 6 enjoyed a home-grown drama workshop with Miss Johnson based on the book ‘War Horse’ by Michael Morpurgo.

Others enjoyed the well-resourced Library which became a storytelling sanctuary away from the biting wind. Throughout the day both children and adults shared and enjoyed storytelling activities.

Finally, the ‘Bring and Buy’ book sale gave all the opportunity to recycle their well-loved stories and buy a new, exciting book for just 50p. All proceeds will be spent on new reading material for the Library.

As the sun set over St Faith’s this evening so everyone returned home with stories of having met many famous characters, jumping inside a well-known tale or looking forward to either reading or listening to a new book or story