GLF Schools celebrates World Book Day
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7/03/2025
Schools from across our Trust have been celebrating World Book Day this week.
Pupils have taken part in a wide variety of activities to mark World Book Day, with children and staff dressing up as characters from their favourite stories.
Students have been meeting well-known authors visiting their schools, doing some reading based orienteering activities and playing games including ‘The Masked Reader’, with children encouraged to guess the mystery identity of a reader.
Pupils also took part in activities including creating a rap based on a book, scavenger hunts for books around schools, and a design competition for a National Book token.
Students have also taken part in a sponsored three week read for the ‘Read for Good’ charity, which aims to ensure all students have a love of reading, and the resources to access books.
Children at Hardwick primary school in Banbury dressed are taking part in a whole school project looking at the story 'The Midnight Fair'. Children from ages 2-11 have been working to produce fabulous writing and artwork based on the story of the animals who broke into a fairground at night.
Emma Rodziewicz, Headteacher at Frogmore Junior School, will be welcoming an after school ‘Book Bus’ - where children and parents can borrow/swap books and return when they’re next able to - for World Book Day. She said:
“It has been inspiring to see the difference we can make by helping children to understand that reading is something for everyone. Through our activities at school we have made pupils aware that reading is vital for their future development and I look forward to carrying this on throughout the year to encourage a love of reading in every pupil.”
Julian Drinkall, CEO of GLF Schools, said:
“I’ve been delighted to see the huge variety of ways in which World Book Day has been celebrated across our Trust. Our teachers have approached World Book Day with ingenuity and enthusiasm, and I’m confident many more pupils will be reading for pleasure as a result of events this week.”
World Book Day is a charity event held annually on the first Thursday in March. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK and Ireland is provided with a voucher to be spent on books. The event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1998.
