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3 . E x a m p l e s o f g o o d p r a c t i c e
Teachers arrange a wide range of activities in school. Activities have included book sale,
bumper book quiz, open mic storytelling and drop everything and read events.
The school views World Book Day as a celebration! A celebration of authors, illustrators,
books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading.
Staff from all departments arrive in school today dressed as characters from an array of
different books.
However the celebration is not limited to World Book Day, a whole week is dedicated to
reading, the school implements a “Reading Rocks campaign”.
Reading Rocks is an extended sequence of events aimed at inspiring staff and students alike
to pick up a book.
The activities include:
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Never Ever Ending story - students and staff are chosen at random to contribute a
paragraph to our ongoing story.
Guess who competition - students had to guess the teachers hidden behind the
books.
T-shirt treasure trail - students had to collect the character names of the English
department from the back of their t-shirts and name the book the character was
from.
Where’s Wally? - two clues were released in school everyday - the first student to
solve all got a prize.
Big fat reading quiz of the year -Year 7 and 8 put their reading knowledge to the test
in this head-to-head quiz.
Fancy dress World Book Day - staff surprised students by coming into school dressed
as a multitude of different characters.
Author Dan Smith came into school to work with Year 7 and 8 students, as our grand
finale to Reading Rocks week.
Reading activities in maths, science and more- teachers from all departments focused
some of their lessons on reading throughout the week.
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