World Book Day 2021

5 Mar

Despite still being in ‘Lockdown’, all of the children and staff at Stanmore Primary School participated in celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 4th March. The event was launched by two ‘live’ assemblies, featuring our guest author, Helen Griffiths, who joined us from her home in New Zealand! Helen shared her incredible book, ‘Treasure Beyond Measure’ with us, explaining how she came to write her book, and the inspiration behind it.

This formed the ‘hook’ from which the children’s writing was based on for the next two days, which included exploring animals in different biomes, developing vocabulary and learning about fascinating collective nouns. This led to some inspired poetry writing on Friday, as well as the creation of animals using fruits and vegetables. In the afternoon, the children enjoyed a ‘Pyjamarama’, sharing books with hot chocolate and biscuits. The wonderful staff at school created a ‘Hidden Reader’ version of ‘Treasure Beyond Measure’, and a ‘Virtual Library’, where the children could click on a book cover and hear the book being read aloud, which was shared with children at home and in school.

World Book Day vouchers will be distributed week commencing Monday 8th March.