World Book Day week concluded on Friday lunchtime last week with The Book Quiz. Curated by the student librarians – special shout out to Molly – the quiz challenged participating teams to guess the book from brief extracts, book covers from blurred images and book titles from antonyms.
Thanks to everyone that took part in this, and the other events last week, and congratulations to Bea, Emily and Annie the quiz winners!
The quiz provided a fitting end to an extremely busy week celebrating the joy of reading in the school.
On World Book Day itself, a number of students volunteered to participate in an inspiring Open Mic session in front of a sizeable audience.
We heard from students about the books and authors they love, some read extracts, others shared poems they’d composed themselves.
We collected together a few excerpts of some of the students that took part in the compilation video below – which you can also watch on our recently launched YouTube channel.
World Book Day (WBD) – Thursday 5th March – will be celebrated at lunchtime events in the library all through next week.
Students are being encouraged to get involved in the Second Hand Book Swap. All they need to do is bring in a book from home and drop it off at the library. In return they’ll receive a ticket which they can exchange for a book from those donated. This forms part of the Helping Other People and the Planet initiative, in the same way as the Clothes Swap did earlier this term.
And that’s not all. On Monday lunchtime students will be invited to make origami bookmarks. Tuesday and Wednesday the library will host book debates which are expected to be keenly contested!
On WBD itself, we have the popular Open Mic event. Students are encouraged to sign up at the desk to book their spot to talk about, or read from one of their favourite books or series of books. They might decide to talk about their favourite author or explain why they love reading so much. It’s up to them! Each student that takes the spotlight will receive a credit for getting involved.
And finally on Friday lunchtime, the library will host the Book Quiz! This is always a popular event. Once again, students need to book a place for their team – groups no larger than 4 please – at the library desk.
Throughout the week students can collect a £1 book token from the library or their English teacher which they can exchange for one of the WBD books being promoted in participating bookshops nationwide – just head to the WBD website to see what books are available.
We look forward to a busy week celebrating reading.
