Published: Thursday, 23rd October, 2008 06:00
Week long story time for schools
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St Mary's and All Saints school, Coley: Mia Kumari, Chelsea Holroyd, Daniel Veitch, (back) Rachel Toole, Tracy Kpani-Addy and Cameron Hughes
Pic by: Chris Forsey
SCHOOLS across the county celebrated Children’s Book Week with a host of activities to get pupils reading.
Events included visits from authors, dressing up and one school’s pupils were busy holding the front page when they spent the day reporting.
St Mary’s and All Saints primary school in Coley found out if any budding journalists were present when pupils were asked to write reports and draw up a newspaper front page.
Sam Miller, nine, said: “We had to do all the different year groups and just write a little bit of what they were doing. We did a rough draft and then we typed it up. I quite liked doing news reporting.”
Children and staff also dressed as their favourite characters to celebrate Children’s Book Week, which coincided with the refurbishment of the school’s library.
Youngsters from Springfield Primary School also dressed up in style as their favourite book characters and poet James Carter held a number of assemblies, book signings and workshops for pupils of all ages.
Under his guidance, the children were challenged to work together to write their own story, complete with imaginative protagonists and cliffhangers.
The Pass It On story was handed from class to class from the nursery up to year six before it was completed.
Illustrator and author Mike Pringle dropped in to talk to the children, as well as showing off a motorbike that he told them he is planning to turn into a flying machine.
Mums and dads were also encouraged to join in during a family writing session, and on one of the days at 5pm parents took their children back to school clad in pyjamas for a Bed Time Story.
Pupils at the Abbey Junior School also had a visit from James Carter and joined in the festivities by dressing up to a theme of Heroes and Villains.
In addition to quizzes and hat–decorating, the school held a poetry recital competition in which pupils in years three–six delivered a poem from memory.
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