World Book Day 2024
We love to celebrate World Book Day at Sandhill View as we recognise the importance of instilling a love of reading within our students. World Book Day is an important date in our school calendar as we relish the opportunity to share our love of books and our favourite stories. This year our staff came in dressed as characters from different books to help celebrate our love of reading.
All students at Sandhill View took part in various activities throughout the day beginning with a quiz during tutor-time filled with questions about popular books and authors as well as books that students have studied. Period 1 kicked off the SHV Travelling Story for all KS3 students. At the start of the lesson teachers introduced the short story The Landlady by Roald Dahl. Students then made predictions about what they thought the story could be about and then read the first section of the story. In the next lesson students read the next part of the story and this continued throughout the day at the start of every lesson until the story was finished.
During break and lunch time students were able to visit the school library to vote for their favourite staff WBD costume and visit the Book Swap Shop. Over the last couple of weeks both students and staff have donated books that they no longer read to the Book Swap Shop. Students visited the Book Swap Shop and took a book of their choice home to read. We loved hearing the discussions the students had with each other when choosing books and sharing their favourite stories together.
All students can claim a free World Book Day book or a £1 discount off a book of their choice. The tokens can be used at most supermarkets and bookstores.