Parents will be able to share a book with their child before school on Thursday 6th March. These sessions will take place in your child’s classroom. Please arrive promptly at 8.30am and stay with your child on the playground, if you would like to take part – we will be unable to accommodate latecomers due to safeguarding and staff numbers. Siblings in different year groups will be able to be in the same classroom together with parents. These sessions will finish on the second bell at 8.50am for the day to start. You can bring a book to share, or borrow one from the class reading corner.

This year we will, once again, be dressing up as book covers due to the success of last year’s event. Over the half term and in the first week back to school, children can choose their favourite story and draw the front cover of it onto the front of the t-shirt, and write the blurb on the back. On World Book Day, children can proudly wear their book cover t-shirts to school, so that we can make a human book shelf in each class!

Across the whole school we will be taking part in a ‘one book study’ in order to create a shared, progressive reading display of our learning over the course of the week.

We will also be having Year 6 reading ambassadors sharing stories throughout the week, and partaking in class shared reading sessions. Teachers will also be sharing their favourite books to Key Stages.

There’s plenty more to look forward to during this week too, including the introduction of a sponsored ‘Readathon,’ which children will have the option to take part in, in order to help raise much-needed funds for school books.