A WWII Themed World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day this year, we had a whole school drop-down day with lessons based around Michelle Magorian’s best-selling novel, ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’. Staff and students had the option to dress up in WWII themed fancy dress which really helped bring the novel to life (see photos). The day started with students being organised into classes of mixed year groups; they then had an introduction to what the novel was about.

Over the course of the day, students read extracts from the novel and gained a solid understanding of the characters and plot. They did activities linked to the text and showed empathy by putting themselves into the shoes of Willie Beech, the novel’s protagonist. Students also spent the day developing their knowledge about what life would have been like for an evacuee during WWII.

In addition to this, we had a ‘decorate an egg or potato as your favourite book character’ competition; as you can see from the photos, we had lots of amazing entries.