11 SPRING NEWSLETTER 2024 Our week started off with the first chapter: daily challenges. Every day, students were given a challenge to complete which was anything from dressing like a book cover to creating their own tasty treats inspired by their reading. With an amazon voucher up for grabs for the winner in every form, the competition was tough. Thursday saw us celebrate World Book Day officially and there was no better way to start it off other than with our quiz. Members of staff from across the school shared a selfie of their shelfie, others were morphed into literary characters, whilst others transformed into masked readers. We had everything from a talking blob fish to a hybrid Paw Patrol, pink haired troll! As you can imagine, it was like a Mexican wave of laughter around school as each form watched the quiz. However, perhaps the most memorable was our very own quiz master, Mr Whitehead, who hosted each round dressed as a different character, with the students having to guess who he was. Thanks to Mr Whitehead’s very talented acting, he made it easy for forms to guess who! Whilst form time was busy with quizzing, our break and lunch times were just as active as students took part in ‘Around the World in 80 (minus 79) Days’! This scavenger hunt took students all around school, following clues to work out which member of staff was wearing which badge. Which member of staff was the ‘rogue one’? Who made sure school didn’t descend into a scene from ‘Lord of the Flies’? And, who can talk as much about football as the 20 page account in ‘Kes’? Well, hopefully, you now know all those answers! The whole point of World Book Day is to encourage young people to discover the pleasure of reading. Our day was filled with excitement and laughter as students had to work together to use all their literary knowledge to succeed. We heard debates about whether Mr Whitehead was Captain Hook from ‘Peter Pan’ or Long John Silver from ‘Treasure Island’. Others discussed where they had heard the names Lucy, Susan, Peter and Edmund before. Our final discussions were held in the library for our ‘Pages and PJs’ big read. Students from Year 7 and 8 signed up to get their pjs on and bring a favourite book to read and share with the group. We heard extracts from classics such as ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘Dracula’ and ‘The Famous Five, to an array of genres from newer novels such as ‘Holes’, ‘The Girl of Ink and Hearts’ and ‘Harry Potter’. So, judging by the laughter, debates and engagement by staff and students alike, it’s safe to say we discovered the pleasure for reading on World Book Day. And, in the words of our quiz master himself: “Here’s to next year’s World Book Day 2025!” World Book Day Well, what can we say? World Book Day 2024 was definitely ‘fully booked’ with week-long celebrations and activities.
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