The power of reading was brought to life when students and staff dressed as their favourite fictional characters to celebrate World Book Day.
Snow White, Jane Eyre and Sherlock Holmes were among the colourful characters who turned up to school as part of the festivities, alongside the entire cast of 101 Dalmatians.
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 was ‘Everyone is a Reader’ and Lower School students will continue to explore this idea in their English lessons during this half term.
A number of events were held in school to celebrate World Book Day, including the very first ‘Highfields Book Swap’ where students and staff were invited to exchange books they had previous enjoyed. Students across the school also each received a World Book Day token, which could be used towards the purchase of books from several High Street stores.
School Librarian, Miss Hallam, said, “It was fantastic to see so many staff and students get into the spirit of the day with their creative costumes, and the success of the book swap goes to show how much students still value reading and physical copies of books, comics, and graphic novels. The love of reading is still alive at Highfields, and it made for an incredibly rewarding day, and I am really looking
