World Book Week

World Book Day has been celebrated throughout this week with activities to encourage the love of all thing literary.  Students have attended an assembly hosted by Tigger and Sherlock Holmes (read it here), listened to engaging 10-minute Story Sharing during tutor time and have been asked to get creative for the Design A National Book Token competition. 

The week culminated in a not-to-be-missed Staff Dress Up event today where students took part in a House Competition to identify the books and characters that were being enthusiastically portrayed by their teachers! 

We saw everyone from ... The Queen of Hearts to King Arthur and Little Miss Chatterbox to Shakespeare's witches, with everything in between and there was much discussion about which department was the best turned out. 

Although we are celebrating World Book Day this week, there is an ongoing  appreciation of the value of books and a drive to nurture a 'Reading for Pleasure' culture throughout the school.  There are numerous initiatives in place which include 'Drop Everything And Read‘ where our Year 7 students do exactly that - they drop everything and read for 20 minutes every day, and The Big Book Swap something that students, parents and staff members alike are becoming very familiar with. These stalls pop up at many school events encouraging people to bring along books they have at home so that someone else might enjoy them and then pick up a new book themselves to discover a new author or genre of writing perhaps, that they might have otherwise missed. 

As schools around the country celebrated World Book Day on 2 March, here at Charters we understand the power of books and the impact of reading on wellbeing, learning and enjoyment.  It is wonderful to see so many students engaging with these initiatives and developing their love of reading.  

In celebration of World Book Day there are a number of audiobooks currently available for free - please click here and scroll down past the picture books for those better suited to older age groups!

You can also win a fiery family adventure to Germany as World Book Day is helping to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon with a truly magical prize. One lucky winner will have the change to go on a 3-day family trip to Soltau in Germany to stay at Heide Park, the theme part that is home to an entire land based around How to Train Your Dragon. Click here for details on how to enter.