WORLD BOOK DAY On Thursday 2nd March, KGS and the rest of the world celebrated an amazing event of reading - World Book Day 2017 Our library was packed with fun activities for all students to enjoy. For example, Miss Cleaves read segments from short stories each period of the day. You could also make your own bookmark or hunt down teachers dressed as book characters to win a prize.
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World Book Day is the celebration of authors, illustrators, books and, most importantly, reading. Over 100 countries take part in the celebration, giving young people reasons to love reading and to escape reality. One of the ways to encourage students to read is through the £1 pound book tokens given out to each student. There are many books to choose from; however, if you prefer to buy a book from your local bookshop then you can use it to get £1 off a book of your choice. To make the day even more fun, some of the teachers at KGS took the opportunity to come in to school dressed as a character from a book. Mr Campbell, our English teacher, came in as Hamlet, whilst Miss Robinson and Miss Hanson came dressed as Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee from ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Students hunted the school to collect their teachers’ new
identity and were rewarded with prizes from the library. Mrs Cleaves was the driving force behind the World Book Day celebration. She says that reading books is the best thing you can do to relax, expand your vocabulary, get better grades in English and writing tasks as well as to widen your imagination. Books place no limitations and with a book you can explore not only our world, but the outside galaxies as well. She also mentions how lucky we are to have access to books as there are children living in some countries where they are restricted to what they can read. Mrs Cleaves and Miss Taylor created a book trailer competition and you can see the winning trailers on Firefly. I saw lots of smiling faces around the school and particularly the library. Both Mrs Cleaves and Miss Taylor were amazing at getting pupils involved and hopefully enjoyed leading the activities they set up. • Eva Preskey 3RSS