Portpatrick pupils celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March. We started off the day by talking about our favourite books, sharing why we loved them and who our favourite characters were. We then took part in a school competition ran by our librarians, Katie and Louise, to draw a picture of our favourite book character – we had pictures of the Worst Witch, Horrid Henry and the Ice Monster.
After lunchtime, P1-4 pupils took part in a World Book Day scavenger hunt where they had to hunt inside and outside for pictures of well-known book characters and find the clue written on them. Afterwards, we had a chat about the books these characters are from and pupils were able to share their knowledge of familiar stories. At 2pm, we snuggled up with a hot chocolate to enjoy the live David Walliams’ Storytelling Spectacular online event. David entertained us with excerpts from some of his famous books, including Gangsta’ Granny and the Boy in the Dress, and he even gave us a sneak-peak into his new book ‘Robodog.’
We then spent time looking online at the books that are available to swap our World Book Day tokens for at WHSmith – younger pupils liked the look of the ‘Dave the Pigeon: Bookshop Mayhem’ and older pupils were keen on ‘Boot It!’ and ‘A Dragon Realm.’
We finished the day by spending time enjoying our favourite books and some pupils were able to sit an Accelerated Reading test. Everyone left school with an appreciation of the importance of reading, the knowledge of some new books they might like to read, and a book token in hand to put towards a new book.
Tomorrow, our librarians will draw our reading raffle for February and select the winner of the drawing competition.
