This academic year as part of our Reading Matters initiative we have introduced Book Champions at Waldegrave. The Book Champions have been working hard to encourage reading across the school and World Book Day was another chance to share our love of books. Our Book Champions helped our English Department to run a really popular book swap event for World Book Day. This was a fun event during lunchtime where Year 7 and 8 students could bring and swap books they had finished reading. It was a lovely event with pupils sharing what they enjoyed about their books and introducing them to their friends. The school also shared World Book day tokens offering £1 off a book of choice, these were able to be used at any book shop but also at the Travelling Book Fair our Librarian, Mrs Croucher had organised to visit us for a whole week. The book fair returns each year and is an opportunity for students to find out about new books but also to support the school as every book purchased at the Book Fair helps to earn free books for the Waldegrave library. This year we sold almost £700 worth of books, meaning Waldegrave will receive around £270 in rewards, which is fantastic news for our library. 2026 is the National Year of Reading, making this year’s World Book Day even more special. At Waldegrave we promote reading through our Book Champions who this year have set reading challenges across the school, shared book reviews and created shortlists of brilliant books to read with their year groups. You can read more about our Book Champions on their dedicated webpage. AROUND THE SCHOOL: WORLD BOOK DAY & THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR
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