World Book Day

World Book Day takes place at St Mark’s on Thursday 3rd March for YR, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6. Y1 will celebrate World Book Day on Friday, 4th March because of a trip on the Thursday. We hope you’ll join us as we come together to encourage every child in school to be a reader and love books.

To celebrate World Book Day, we will have plenty of fun activities taking place throughout the day including: 

• inviting children to dress up as their favourite book character. You can find lots of  creative ideas at worldbookday.com/dressing-up-ideas (for children who are not comfortable dressing up, they could make and wear a badge which highlights a favourite book character)
• children bringing in a book they would like to swap for our Big Year Group Book Swap
• opening our school day with a special worship all about the joy of reading. Children will take part in a fun quiz to see if they can identify ‘The Masked Reader’
• running a competition for children to take a photo of themselves as a masked reader (photos will be submitted on Google Classroom and further details will follow)
• decorating class doors or windows inspired by a fantastic book
• thinking about which three book characters the children would like to invite to their house to have tea together. Why would they choose these characters? Would they get along? 
• enjoying an afternoon session of Teatime Tales where a story is shared with the children as they enjoy a special afternoon drink and snack in their class
• after enjoying some teatime tales, each class will be introduced to their class’s take-home book pack – another opportunity to promote the love of reading at home
• giving every child their £1 book token to take home – this can be swapped for a free book in local bookstores or used to get a £1 off a book of a higher value.