Whole School

Another week, another opportunity to see our SPARK curriculum and enrichment opportunities in action! 📚✨

This week, we celebrated World Book Day, and it was fantastic to see our school filled with creativity, imagination and a love of reading. From wonderful costumes inspired by favourite characters to secret storytellers, who shared stories with other classes. Stay and read saw lots of parents, carers and grandparents joining us to read and pupils embracing  the joy that books bring.

World Book Day is a brilliant reminder of the power of reading to spark curiosity, build knowledge and transport us to new worlds. Well done to all our pupils and staff for making the day so special!

Foundation had a lot of fun on World Book Day. The children looked fantastic. It was lovely to have many parents in for the stay and read morning too. We read the story ‘A Child of Books’ where a child from the world of stories reminds people of the places we can journey to in stories. Inspired by this, the children used letter stamps to create their own ‘Mountain of Words’ as seen in the book.  

Year 1 had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day! The children loved seeing all the amazing costumes, with so many wonderful book characters appearing throughout the day. One of our highlights was welcoming lots of parents into school in the morning to read with the children—the classrooms were buzzing with stories and excitement. Later, the children thought about characters they might choose for their own stories. Working with a partner, they created story maps to plan their ideas before bringing them to life by acting them out using our puppet theatres

Across school, we read the book ‘A Child of Stories’ by Oliver Jeffers. In Year 2, we brainstormed nouns, verbs and adjectives to go with the story and then used software to make these into ‘word paper’. We then used the paper to create collages from the book, mimicking the illustrator, Sam Winston’s, typographic art.

Finally, we ended the day with our ‘secret story teller’ – Miss Phillips, who came to read a Peter Rabbit story to us.

In Year 3, pupils completed activities inspired by A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers, where the illustrations are created using words. As a class, we explored the different settings in the story and created a word bank of descriptive adjectives. Pupils then used these words to design their own illustrations, arranging vocabulary to form the shapes of images from the story, combining creativity with vocabulary development.

Year 5 celebrated World Book Day through a variety of different activities. The children wrote a short, creative description based on their chosen theme (“Mountains of Mystery”, “Sea of Dreams”, or “Forest of Stories”), using adjectives and figurative language. This description was inspired by the book A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. They then presented their work in the style of the feature they were describing. The children also took part in a ‘Secret Storyteller’ activity, where another teacher read them a story, as well as sharing their character clue during the assembly.

For World Book Day, Year 6 took part in a creative writing challenge inspired by the story A Child of Books. Pupils worked together to imagine the different places reading can take us, generating rich vocabulary and sentences to describe these worlds. They then presented their ideas using typography inspired by Sam Winston, arranging their sentences into creative shapes. Many children also dressed up as book characters and brought in clues to represent different books, which we tried to guess during the day—some were quite tricky! These were later shared in our World Book Day assembly. Throughout the day, pupils enjoyed many opportunities to celebrate reading, including reading with parents and friends, performing poetry, and listening to a Secret Storyteller to end the day