This week saw our school community celebrate World Book Day with a variety of activities. World Book Day provides a great opportunity to promote literature and the importance of reading and storytelling. You can find a wealth of information and activities on the official website – www.worldbookday.com
Here’s how we got involved here at JTHS…
- In keeping with tradition, pupils from Year 7 (and staff!) were invited to attend in costume as a book character. During the day, our library was visited by famous characters such as Harry Potter; Percy Jackson; Jo March; Phileas Fogg & Passepartout; Sauron; Professor Dumbledore; James Bond; Charlie Bucket; The Minions, and more.
- Stories were shared throughout the day in lessons by our teaching staff. Each lesson began with a short segment of a story, reaching its conclusion by the end of the day. Our Key Stage 3 pupils were told the tale of ‘The Seven Wise Men of Buner’, a traditional folktale from Pakistan, while Key Stage 4 experienced the macabre tale ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl.
- All Year 8 pupils got involved by creating their own designs for the National Book Token competition. Pupils will be submitting their designs to be considered for the new collection of tokens being launched later this year.
- Mrs Clayton’s Y8 Art Club participated in the celebrations by creating some fabulous pieces of artwork with a literary theme. The pupils were tasked with creating a fictional map based on the landscape of their favourite book, demonstrating the use of visual media for world-building and storytelling. Their work will shortly be on display around the school.
- Following on from Mr Weighall’s assembly on the origins of World Book Day, Year 7 were invited to read the story for themselves and participate in the ‘World Book Day Accelerated Reader Challenge’. Four exclusive book quizzes have been created and only are available until Friday 14th March. This is an opportunity for pupils to significantly boost their word count and book point scores in our ongoing ‘Worldwide Word Millionaire’ contest.
- Prizes are also up for grabs in our ‘Behind the Book Cover’ competition launched this week. Several staff members have been caught reading in the library, but their identity is concealed behind the cover of their favourite books. Pupils will need to correctly identify each member of staff to be in with a chance of winning one of five library goodie bags. This competition is open to all year groups and entries can be submitted via the link in the inbox of their school email account.
DEADLINE: Thursday 13th March.
- Our library stationery shop currently has a limited number of the 2025 limited-edition World Book Day titles, available to purchase for £1 or trade in for free with their WBD £1 token. Stock is limited, so hurry before we sell out!
