Upton Junior School Celebrates World Book Day!

Lockdown hasn’t dulled Upton’s enthusiasm for celebrating World Book Day, in fact it is quite the opposite with children both at school and at home getting involved in 6B. We started the day by playing a game of who’s behind the book. Every teacher in the school had disguised themselves behind a book and the children had to guess who was who. The children really enjoyed this and it was a great way to start the day!

The children spent the day looking at the book After the Fall by Dan Santat, which is the story of how Humpty Dumpty got back again! The book linked beautifully to the school values of Resilience and Aspiration as well as other key themes of courage and perseverance. Using the book, the children undertook a number of reading and writing activities in the morning and in the afternoon, they focussed on PSHE and thinking outside the box!

Resilience and aspiration were such key themes that the afternoon activities asked them to do just this. The children were asked to pick a challenging activity which would test their resolve including:

Choice of activities so we get lots of different ones:

Designing a paper airplane that looks like a flying animal – just like the book!

Engineering a device to help Humpty get up the wall! 

Designing and creating a protective outfit for Humpty just in case he was to fall again!

Researching their favourite bird and creating a piece of artwork that reflects its uniqueness!

Cooking or baking something that they have never made before but it must contain eggs in some way to create an eggsellent dish!

The results were brilliant and the pictures sent in from both home and school were fantastic! As well as this the children were given some extra activities to take part in at home in over the week including:

Decorating and egg and turning it into a book character.

An extreme reading challenge to find somewhere fun and unique to read. Even the teachers got involved with this one with one teacher reading on the moon!

Read to your sibling or pet.

And finally, the Egg Drop Challenge! Where the children had to create a contraption that would protect an egg if it fell!

The children were also encouraged to wear colourful, bright clothes for the day reflecting the brightness of reading and all the joy reading brings to our lives!

The work 6B produced was of the highest standard and was so impressive and unique!