World Book Day 2023

World Book Day 2023
 
It's World Book Day and at St Stephens we are passionate about promoting reading for pleasure.
This year our theme was 'Snuggle up with a book' and the children came to school dressed in their pyjamas. 
We wanted to offer every child at our school the opportunity to have a book of their own and develop their love of reading. Mrs Hooper met with the House Captains and decided that we wanted to give the children the chance to swap books that they have previously enjoyed, with other children in the school. This is something that links really well with our work on climate change and sustainability.
  
We were absolutely delighted to receive so many book donations that each child in the school (including pre-school) was able to  take home a 'swap book' as well as their World Book Day £1 Book Token.
World Book Day - In KS1/EYFS we mixed classes and took part in 3 different special book led activities.
With Mrs Hooper we learnt about one of our favourite authors and illustrators, Tom Percival. You can learn a little more about Tom here http://tom-percival.com/2016/02/25/a-bit-about-me/ We thought about why we love his books so much and what him such a great author.
With Mrs Hobbs we listened to an actor read the story of The Cave written and illustrated by Rob Hodgson. We then designed our own delicious tantalising doughnuts that could be used to tempt the "little" creature out of the cave - sprinkles included!
With Mrs Fritz we learnt about Rob Biddulph. He is a bestselling and multi award-winning author/illustrator of children’s books. In March 2020 he started #DrawWithRob, a series of twice-weekly draw-along videos designed to help parents whose children were forced to stay home from school due to the coronavirus pandemic. It proved immensely popular, garnering millions of views and international media coverage. We had a go at being illustrators and drawing Rob's Eugene the Owl.