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World Book Day Showcase

Despite many of our children not being in school during World Book Day, each of the classes still celebrated the day with a host of engaging activities, with a focus on our whole-school theme: Inspirational People.

Click the "World Book Day Gallery" tab below to see some photos of our children's superb work and see below for a summary of what each class did.

Reception

Reception were inspired by the architect Zaha Hadid through two stories: "The World is not a Rectangle" and the "Inspirational People Series: Zaha Hadid". We chose to look at the story of the "Queen of Curve" because earlier work had seen us exploring the properties of 3D shapes. We had used shapes to create structures and discovered shapes with curves were much harder to build with. Zaha was told her designs were unbuildable but she never gave up, challenging engineers to design different machines capable of seeing her designs through.

Zaha's love of the world round her, from her early life in Bagdad to her time in London saw her take inspiration from many natural sources such as an opera house shaped like stones in a stream, tall buildings that look like dancing grass from remembering the swaying marshes and swirling buildings inspired by stars and galaxies. Her buildings can be seen all over the world. 

Following this we tried again to build with curves - it was still tricky! 

There were other activities based around sharing our favourite stories and toys that we like to read with, making a reading, making book marks, front covers and guess the character quiz from the clues.

Year 1

In Year 1, the children heard the real story of David Attenborough from the Little People, Big World series.  They were challenged to find out five interesting facts about his life and the amazing things he had achieved.  

The children also heard the fictional story of 'Amazing Grace' and thought about the ways the main character was inspirational.  They thought about their own aspirations and the qualities that they would need to achieve their goal.  Harry wants to be a policeman and said that he needed to be calm, fair and a fast runner.  Emma wants to be a professional singer so says that she needs to be confident, ambitious and good at performance. Tobi wants to be a sailor on a big boat and said that he needs to be brilliant at map reading, steering and good in a team.  Finally, the children designed their own word searches to encourage others to read.  They had fun challenging their families to find all of their hidden words.

Year 2

In Year 2, we learned about Katherine Johnson who worked for NASA as a 'computer', which means she solved maths problems. In 1962, John Glenn orbitted the Earth. He asked for Katherine Johnson to check the flight path calculations personally. We also read about other women who helped to build NASA. The children made corner book marks, read about Katherine Johnson and completed a wordsearch about woman at NASA.

Year 3

Year 3 have looked at Ernest Shackleton as their inspirational person. Ernest Shackleton was a famous explorer who travelled to Antarctica. In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set off to cross Antarctica and the journey was one of unimaginable adventure and endurance as the ship became stuck among the ice. After escaping to Elephant Island in small boats, Ernest Shackleton was able to rescue all of his men.

Year 3 designed and created their own islands and, like Shackleton, wrote about their explorations. 

Year 4

In year 4 this year we focused on Sir Captain Tom Moore. We looked at all of the achievements he accomplished in his life. 

We focused on two main activities: writing a letter of thanks to Sir Captain Tom Moore and a descriptive paragraph from a picture from a book about him.

We also did some additional activities such as; recreate a book cover or scene from a book however you liked. Some children chose to do drawings, one child even chose to bake a cake! 

Year 5

Year 5 focussed upon Ruby Bridges.  Ruby made history in 1960 when, at the age of 6, she became the first student to attend an all-white school in New Orleans which, at the time, was a city that was divided by colour of skin.  Many people were completely against Ruby attending the school and, on her first day, protesters surrounded the school.  Ruby had to be escorted into the premises. White parents withdrew their children from the school and only one teacher agreed to teach her.

Year 6

For World Book Day, Year 6 learnt about the life and inspirational work of Malala Yousafzai. Malala became famous around the world for campaigning for the universal right for education for girls. During the day, the children wrote a piece of writing from Malala’s perspective, focussing on the closure of girls’ schools in Pakistan by the Taliban. Then, as an additional session, they found out more about Malala’s life and then created a fact file.

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