We collected £339.66 to support the work of Book Aid International in getting books to children in parts of the world that have none. Thank you to all those who supported this worthwhile charity which makes it possible for children in desperate need to learn to read, the first step towards helping themselves out of poverty.

The number of students spending the day in character this World Book Day was truly staggering and a real pleasure to witness!

90 students put themselves forward for judging, which had to be done in batches, occupied two members of staff and took a complete lesson!  You can see from the photographs what a difficult job it was. In the end 12 students, whose costumes were judged to display the most ingenuity and originality, were selected. They were each invited to choose a book prize from the Fair and the rest won privilege passes.

The prize winners!

Thank you to everyone who dressed up, whether or not you made your own costume, because your efforts contributed to making World Book Day special – and that’s what it’s all about!

Enormous thanks to Iona Lane, Anna Jakubovics, Will Cottiss in Year 6 and Ellen Davison in Year 7 – for patiently naming more than 500 World Book Day tokens so everyone could be sure of getting one.