The world of make believe was brought to life when students and staff dressed as their favourite fictional characters to celebrate World Book Day.
Harry Potter, Snow White and The Gruffalo were among the colourful characters who turned up to school as part of the festivities, alongside the entire cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The annual World Book Day is a celebration of books, authors, illustrators and reading which aims to ignite imaginations and help students gain a lifelong passion for reading.
The theme of this year’s event is ‘reading is power’, and Lower School students will continue to explore this idea in their English lessons throughout next week.
A number of events were held in school to celebrate World Book Day, including poetry and creative writing workshops, whilst students and members of staff donated 50p to dress up. The money will go to the Book Bus charity, which aims to improve child literacy rates in Africa, Asia and South America by providing children with books and the inspiration to read them.
Lower School students have also each received a World Book Day token, which can be used towards the purchase of books from a number of High Street stores until March 29th.
School Librarian, Mrs N. Ward, said: “Staff and students in Years 7 and 8 were invited to dress up as characters from their favourite books.
“There was lots going on around school to inspire our students and ignite a lifelong love of books and reading. It was a very enjoyable day.”
For more information about the list of books on offer with World Book Day tokens, as well as the participating bookshops and supermarkets, click here.
