World Book Day 2023
We had another year of excellent celebrations for World Book day on Thursday the 2nd of March 2023. This year, our theme was Fairy-tale and the morals in them; and each faculty had a really interesting take on the them. Science, in their usual Scientific fashion, re-enacted ‘Star Wars’ and decorated their doors accordingly. English dressed as characters from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. The Year 7 team worked together to recreate ‘Alice in Wonderland’. The Explore Faculty dressed as characters from ‘Goldilocks and The Three Bears’, so we were awash with animals, princes, princesses, galactic fighters and other Fairy-tale heroes – teaching lessons that all had a reading theme.
Not wanting to miss out, the Senior Leadership team, including the Headteacher, all took their roles as characters in an Indian Fairy-tale called ‘The Man, The Tiger and The Six Judges’. It is was this fairy-tale, and the moral, that was the focus of the whole school ‘Reading Treasure Hunt’. There was a real excitement for this event, as children had to find 10 pieces of a story somewhere in the school grounds, and then use their knowledge of structure to piece it together. Over a quarter of our children joined the busy Library at lunchtimes that week and entered the competitions that we had running. We were delighted to award a full set of books to Juwariah R in Year 7 and our main winner of the Treasure Hunt was Duaa J in Year 10.
We really have to express our utmost thanks again to WH Smiths in Bury. We were able to redeem all of our tokens for World Book day and give every child at least one book from the World Book Day charity. Now every child in school has a short fiction book to read and enjoy and it thanks to their wonderful staff who we now work with every year to keep promoting reading!
