BOOK WEEK 2024: Brilliant Beasts and Clever Creatures
Thursday was dress up day and a variety of wonderful costumes appeared. All were appreciated and all cleverly thought out, and thanks to Mr Forbes for making me a (cardboard) door (at midnight) to go with my lion soft toy and witch’s hat (have you guessed my costume yet?) Dr Griffiths was keen to point out that he was not Willy Wonka but Phileas Fogg instead - and he looked wonderful. To end the week, we were visited by performance Poet, ADISA, who performed to our Year 5 and 6 boys and then did poetry workshops, inspiring and enthusing our boys to create poems. Fabulous. In between this we had our annual short story competition, and lunches with authors for the Year 6 librarians and EDI ambassadors.
n Wow! What a week! So many favourite moments, starting the week with three teachers reading at Assembly - thank you Mr Devitt, Mr Oubridge and Mr Goodrich for your spellbinding reading. Straight on to our wonderful storyteller with Lao Lao our dragon . Year 5 and 6 loved the author Margaret Bateson Hill talking about First Flight. Then Charlie P Brooks for Year 3 & 4 with his brand new book “Sammi and the Extra Hot Chilli powder”. On Wednesday, we welcomed A F Steadman - who I predict will be the next J K Rowling. She kindly dropped in to spend the afternoon with us, having signed a film deal on her books, before flying to the US for a 10- day publicity tour to launch the Skandar books there. Her workshop and naming of a new unicorn was wonderful and so inspiring. One to watch.
Mrs Forbes
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