Bangabandhu's Book Month
The purpose of Book Month is to develop and encourage reading across the school, and develop a love of reading for pleasure. Reading is so important that we have devoted a whole month to it! It is also an opportunity to explore Literacy through different forms e.g. workshops, poetry, illustrations, meet and greet authors etc. We will also be launching our new ‘Must Reads’, look out for them! We will explain what this is all about very soon.
Here's some of the things that will be happening during Book Month:
Thursday 3rd March - Opening Assembly
We will have an opening assembly to introduce Book Month. Revealing our holiday home learning project winners and our whole school reading display. All the events and visits during the course of the month will be revealed to the children.
Thursday 3rd March – Book Character Day
To celebrate World Book Day children are asked to dress up as their favourite book character. There will be prizes to win! A parade will take place in the KS1 playground at 2:30pm. Come and see the fantastic costumes! Click this link to see some ideas for a World Book day character
Thursday 3rd March – Author Events
Year 1 and 2 will have a virtual author visit from Catherine Raynar. Year 3 and 4 will have an online hour of live poetry by Michael Rosen. Year 3 and 6 will be visiting Genesis Cinema to see author, Rashmi Sirdeshpande.
Thursday 10th March - Story Telling Workshops
From 9.00am - 9:30am parents are welcome to come into school and classrooms to see storytelling around the school. Different teachers will be running different sessions and sharing different experiences of how stories can be shared. What will you see?
Thursday 10th March - Tuesday 15th March - Book Fair
KS1 playground: 8:40 – 9:00 KS2 playground 3:05 – 3.30. Buy affordable books that your child will enjoy reading! All children will receive a £1 book token which they can use in our fair.
Thursday 16th March - Whole School Reading Display
For the afternoon, everyone across the school will be spending time to create a unique piece of bunting to promote reading. Using fabric pens, pastels and crafts, they will be representing their love for reading so that they can all be strung together to create a whole school display around the building.
Thursday 24th February
Thursday 24th February – Year 5 classes will have Creative Writing Workshops linked to the theme with author Cliff McNish.
We will have the opportunity to enter the Tower Hamlets Creative Writing Competition – last year we had lots of winners from our school! The theme is: In this, our city. You will receive more information about this soon!