Stanmore celebrates World Book Day 2020
On Thursday 5th March, we participated in the worldwide celebration of books and reading. Prior to World Book Day, we welcomed Lauren Davies, author of ‘Little Turtle turns the tide’ to Stanmore, where she shared her beautifully illustrated book highlighting the important issue of plastic pollution in our seas. This text was selected as our focus book for the whole school during the week, with the children exploring the storyline, vocabulary and grammar features during their writing and guided reading sessions. Alongside this, we linked in our PSHE work on the environment and plastic pollution, as well as creating some stunning artworks inspired by the book. The children were invited to contribute to a whole-school art project using plastic bottle tops, highlighting the concerns of plastics swamping our oceans.
On World Book Day itself, the children were invited to dress in a ‘sea’ theme; we were so delighted to see so many children participate as beachcombers, mermaids, pirates and a wide selection of sea creatures! In the afternoon, the children moved into their house ‘families’ and shared stories with each other. This was a wonderful afternoon of story-telling, sharing favourite books and drawing on past experiences across Early Years to Year 6.
Friday afternoon featured the ‘Book Swap’ with children across the Key Stages bringing in and exchanging books for exciting new reads. It was lovely to see the children bursting with the anticipation of reading their ‘new’ book.
The children are encouraged to complete their ‘share-a story’ log, which runs for the month of March, with a block to be shaded in for every 10 minutes of story sharing completed. We look forward to creating our ‘Share-0-Meter’ of reading to see how many hours of story sharing Stanmore can achieve over the month.
