Our World Book Day celebrations took place this year over a fortnight although we love and celebrate reading all year round! From Books & Biscuits after school, dressing in our PJs, buddy reading with other classes and buying a book at the Preloved Book Fair, there really was plenty going on! See below for what we have been up to... 

World Book Day

This year we celebrated World Book Day by inviting children to come in wearing their cosy pyjamas or onesies. We wanted to focus on the pure enjoyment of reading a book! During the day, children paired up with reading buddies from another class in the school and were delighted to have a sneaky peak at the gorgeous new books we have coming to our new school library. Children enjoyed looking at, reading and discussing from a range of genres and text types. As well as some wonderful picture books, they also looked at graphic novels, non-fiction and poetry books. Everyone really enjoyed the sessions. 

A brand new book for every child at Burton!

Rather than giving out book tokens this year, we shared the World Book Day books with the children before the big day. Children were able to choose one from the selection and take it home with them on the day. It was so lovely to see their enthusiasm for the new books - they were so excited to read them and take them home to share. 

Books & Biscuits

Our budding readers were invited for books and biscuits after school. We snuggled down in our classroom Book Nooks and enjoyed some stories after school. This was a really popular event and enabled us to raise approximately £150 to spend on new books. 

Pop-Up Preloved Book Fair 

We also held our first Preloved Book Fair in association with the Pop-up Book Shop. It was lovely that the children were able to take home (yet another!) book and that the books are being recycled and will be loved by someone else. This event also generated some more opportunities for us to buy new books.