World Book Day – Thursday 3rd March 2022
Dear Parents/Carers
As you will be aware, young people around the globe are celebrating World Book Day 2022 today. We would like to take this opportunity to share with you all the wonderful ways we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of World Book Day at Hanham Woods Academy.
5 Ways We Are Promoting a Joy and Love of Reading:
- Staff Dressing Up! To create a fun, celebratory surprise for students, staff have dressed up in World Book Day costumes. We have had Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Trunchball, Red Riding Hood and a whole group of Where’s Wallys around the Academy. The Academy has been taken over by book characters!
- Free book for all students. Next week, all students will be able to exchange a book token for a free book by visiting the Library at lunchtime. Details on how students can select their books will be shared with students via email and tutor time. Every year, the Book Tokens company create a series of titles just for World Book Day and students will get to pick a book to read and keep!
- Masked Reading Competition. Staff will be creating a special Masked Reader competition for students where we will share great extracts from recommended young adult fiction and like the popular TV show, students will be able to guess who is reading the book! Alongside this, we will be running quizzes and competitions so that students can explore books and reading in different ways.
- Champion Reader Event. We will be celebrating our Top Accelerated Readers in Year 7 and 8 with a special event in the Library with our Librarian, Ms Jardine.
- Favourite Books. Staff will also be sharing their favourite books and we will be creating displays across the Academy to promote reading.
As you can see from our approach, World Book Day is more than just one day of reading; we celebrate reading all year round. World Book Day is a charity on a mission to help change children’s lives by making reading together and reading for pleasure a habit for life.
Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator for success in life, more than family circumstances, educational background, or income
[Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development]
Sharing stories together for just ten minutes a day will encourage a love of reading and it’s fun for everyone! You can read together anywhere and everywhere, from breakfast to bedtime! In the park, on the train, on the sofa, on a plane – reading and sharing stories can happen anywhere at any time.
We hope that you, too , will celebrate World Book Day with students, share a story or your favourite story and enjoy the joy, intrigue and excitement that a good book can bring!
Yours sincerely
Mrs K Hendra | Vice Principal
