Childhood Favourites
Are you a star baker of book-themed cakes in the making?!
Consider signing up to bake a Childhood Favourites themed cake to help us celebrate WBD 26 and to raise money for BookTrust UK. You may sign up individually or in 2s or 3s, and you must provide all allergy information for your bake on the sign up form, along with a title for your bake. Once you have been confirmed as a baker, you commit to bringing in a cake to leave in Centenary Hall by 8.40 am on Monday 2nd March. After judging has taken place, you will be required to staff your stall at the lunchtime bake sale. There will be a winner and two runner up prizes.
Monday 2 March nd
Centenary Hall
Students in any year group can sign up as bakers by collecting a sign up slip from the library.
Maximum 3 in a group. Deadline to return your slip to the library is 3.30pm on 11th February
Winner and Runner Up of 2025!
The Mad Hatter’ s Charity Bake Sale
Some of last year ’ s incredible Myths & Legends cakes for WBD 25!
Led by our Year 8 Reading Ambassador, this session will guide you through creating your own decorative tassel bookmark
All materials will be provided and you’ll get to take your bookmark home to keep.
Students in any year group can sign up via this link. Spaces are limited to the first 30 students to sign up. We will email you if you have secured a place.
WBD 26 Big Team
Are you game for a bit of children’s literature trivia? Do you know your Gruffalo from your President Snow, your Dumbledore from your Scarface Claw?
You must sign up in teams of 4, no more, no less. Teams can be a mix of year groups. Prizes to rival the legendary hoard of Captain Flint await the winning team!
Students from any year group can sign up in 4s on the form here. We recommend mixed year-group teams but you may sign up just with those in your year group if you cannot arrange a mixed team.
We have space for the first 10 groups to sign up. Please nominate one person to sign the team up. Duplicate sign ups will be ignored. We will email you if you have secured a place.
There will be 5 GOLDEN TICKETS hidden in books around the library. Come at break, solve a clue and claim your Golden Ticket! (which can be exchanged for a chocolate reward!)
All year groups can take part
There will be 5 clues to solve in order to find the books containing Golden Tickets. You get one chance to guess a book. Get it wrong and you ’ re out!
There’s only 5 - once they’re gone, they’re gone!
Any year groups can attend.
We have space for the first 150 students at the Centenary Hall by 12.40pm!
From Bilbo Baggins to the Cat in the Hat, Nancy Drew to Willy
Wonker, the possibilities are endless, so I wonder what our teachers have selected as their favourite nostalgic book characters? It’s up to you to find the 7 participating teachers/ teacher double acts around school on the day and guess their fictional alter egos! Remember to take a note pad with you so you don’t forget your guesses by the time you come to complete the online quiz.
Complete the quiz here if you think you ’ ve guessed them! House Points for correct answers! Double act!
Pre-ordered books will be available to collect at the book signing session at lunchtime in the Centenary Hall.
Monday 2 - Friday 6 March
Break Time Each Day
Plus lunchtime on Monday and Thursday Library
No need to sign up, just come along and grab yourself a bargain! Prices range from 50p to £1.50, or £3 to £5 for book bundles!
You must be in KS3 to enter. Your bookmark must relate to LGGS and reading, and can link to WBD 2026 Childhood Favourites theme if you wish. Both text and drawings are encouraged. Designs must be done on the template using any art materials you like. A selection of entries will be made into bookmarks to give to new Year 7 students on their July taster day. Prizes will be awarded to one winner and two runners up.
To enter our prestigious annual Bookmark Competition, collect a design template from the library now.
Form Book Quiz!
Dress Up Ideas
(Some book character images to give you inspiration)
We award achievement points and prizes for the most creative and best-effort outfits! You may well go down in LGGS history with your photo in The Chronicle!
Think about your favourite books at primary school, in KS3, or now, for that matter! Or ask your parents which picture books you liked best as a young child.
Is there a standout character you could dress as?
Or, alternatively, we do love a group effort at LGGS.
Dress up is of course optional but if you want to get into the LGGS spirit and dress up for charity, it makes for a very fun day! Your teachers will be doing it too!
£1 donation to Book Aid International and LGGS Library
https://bookaid.org/
