| We all very much enjoyed celebrating World Book Day 2025 in style today with a host of special events and activities including making the most of our newly updated library and nurture room facilities. Both these spaces have recently been fully refurbishment with a focus on creating relaxing and nurturing spaces which enable children to embrace the joy of reading. Massive thank you to Friends Of St Peter’s (FOSP) who have played a key role in fundraising to support both these spaces as well as generous grants from Johnson and Mukherjee.
Prior to the day the St Peter’s Eco Council ran a very successful costume swap. There were over twenty consumes donated and all the costumes went to a new home. At around £10 per costume that was around £200 saved and 20 costumes that won’t be thrown away. Throughout World Book Day week children also enjoyed listening to stories recorded by staff and governors at the school who selected their favourite book to share with children. On the day there was the long-established tradition of World Book Day costumes with children and families showing their creativity with a host of marvellous costumes. Every class enjoyed a visit to St Peter’s new school library to share the selected World Book Day focus book ‘What a Wonderful Word’. Children explored this book which is a collection of untranslatable words from all over the world celebrating the magic of language, with beautiful original artwork and fascinating facts about each word and the culture it comes from. This was followed up with further work in their classrooms creating their own words from a mixture or two or more words. Children also had the opportunity to enter the schools World Book Day competition to design a new front cover for their favourite book and explain their design. The winning designs from each year group will win a trip to Waterstones in Harrogate to take part in a special book theme workshop later in the term.
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