Upper Beeding School Celebrate Book week

The week beginning Monday 26th February saw the children and staff of Upper Beeding celebrating reading with an own school book week.

The week commenced with the well known author and poet Brian Moses coming to launch our book week which had a focus of poetry and performance.

Brian entertained the school with his performance poetry before working with children in Key Stage 2 inspiring them to write their own poems. He was so impressed with the work of the children that he asked to publish two children’s work on his website.

Thursday 1st March was World Book Day and all children and staff came to school dressed as their favourite book characters with prizes given for the most original characters. Teachers had themes and Key Stage One entertained the school with their rendition of “What the Ladybird heard!” West End in School visited on Friday to ensure that Book week finished on a high with their Jungle Bungle show. A show centred round books.

There were lots of other interesting activities for the children – caught reading prizes, golden tickets, storytelling lunchtimes, pass the story to name a few.

It is proven that children that read for pleasure are more likely to stick at it and be successful and whilst at Upper Beeding we have lots of emphasis already on promoting enjoyment of reading; a whole school book week really raises
the profile of reading.