At Sherfield, we don’t just dress up for World Book Day!
The Nursery children of all ages had a lovely day dressed up as their favourite characters. A very friendly witch came along to the Nursery to read ‘Room on the Broom’ to the children! It was a very exciting story time and all of the children had a little treat afterwards for listening so well and some older children even joined in with the rhyme!
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Reception Class shared their chosen storybook with the Pre-Reception children. They retold known stories from their memory and made sense of unknown stories by describing the images. They used their prediction and inference.
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Pupils in the Prep School were off timetable for the day, participating in a carousel of exciting activities, ranging from an Alice in Wonderland Escape Room, a Book Scavenger Hunt and a book character-based Art session, to an external Treasure Hunt and a Book Swap.
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Pupils in Years 1-6 also took part in a fun-filled Jungle Book Dance Workshop – perfect for those pupils gearing up for the Senior Prep Production of the Jungle Book next term.
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The Staff in Wynstow decorated their classroom doors yesterday with book related themes.
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As part of their GCSE studies, Senior School pupils were treated to a live Royal Shakespeare Company broadcast of a theatre performance of Macbeth, starring Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cussack, with an interactive Q & A session with the actors afterwards.
“I think it was a really good modern adaptation on Shakespeare's Macbeth. I really enjoyed how tense it was throughout and I thought Lady Macbeth and the Porter were portrayed really well. I also thought the use of time as a key theme was really interesting. I would definitely watch it again.” Lucy, Year 9
The Sixth Form ran a World Book Day quiz with the younger pupils.
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One of the highlights of the day has to be the inter-House Fancy Dress competition, which culminated in a costume Fashion Show for the selected pupils – and staff – to show off their amazing costumes. I don’t think many of us will ever forget the sight of ‘Captain Underpants’ roaring up the catwalk! Congratulations to the two winning ‘Hagrids’ – well done to India and Mr Adams, and to Gabriel for winning the Junior Prep competition as Supertato. Visit our Facebook page to view the video of the Fashion Show.
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The staff really pushed the boat out this year with their costumes as well.
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It was voted ‘the best World Book Day yet’ – and suggestions are already pouring in for activities for next year!
To view all the photos and to listen to a specially recorded song for World Book Day by our very own Sherfield Pupils, please click here