World Book Day 2024
World Book Day celebrations started a little early this year with a special wonderful assembly led by two of our Year 9 Book Club students the week before. Students explored the 'Rights of the Child (Articles 29 and 31) in relation to reading for pleasure and information as well as Daniel Pennac's Rights of the Reader' which saw them share personal reading journeys and recommendations.
Members of our staff celebrating World Book Day. Can you tell who NannyMcPhee is?
Events on day saw: every teacher reading their favourite book to students during lessons; 'Finders Keepers': the annual hunt to find books hidden around the school as well as free WBD books to the first 250 students through the library doors; staff dressing up or sporting a book cover for the 'Match the Blurb to the Book’ lanyard competition, and a special reading inspired school lunch featuring wormy spaghetti from Roald Dah's The Twits and Bruce Bogtrotter's Chocolate Cake from Matilda and Sindhu Sai Bhaji from a much loved read: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani.
Our Catering Team designed a World Book Day Menu inspired from recipes found in students' favourite books like "The Twits by Roald Dahl"
World Book Day always see the launch of our annual GGS Reading Challenge to help ensure the joy reading extends and spreads beyond the day. This year's challenge, devised in collaboration with Year 9 and Staff YA Fiction Book Clubs, is to reading twelve books in 12 months, one from each of the twelve inspiring, out-of-comfort-zones-pushing, illuminating categories. Find out more about it here: The GGS Reading Challenge 2024 – georgegreenslovestoread.com
And check out our special World Book Day 2024 – georgegreenslovestoread.com page for links to a host of fantastic resources and competitions available from the official World Book Day organisers!
