World Book Day at Secondary school

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Just out of curiosity wondering if your DC do World Book Day at Secondary school?

No

My DC’s secondary school didn’t do anything special for World Book Day last year.

No, thank goodness. All that gets left behind for younger kids at primary school.

I'm an English teacher. We give the first years ( Scotland) the tokens/ free books that we have delivered. We also have displays with teachers' favourite books & why/ books that have changed them/ had a huge influence etc. We also have an author in doing workshops with the younger ones (age12-14). No dressing up or anything, though.

That all sounds great. They do similar at my DD's school and they dress up too. Lots of prizes of books to win. I'm glad they still do fun things at her school (pancake races today!) and they all seem to enjoy it. But it doesn't seem as if there's much fun at other schools her friends are at.

It's perhaps timing? I know that we've had just had prelims (mocks), then marking & reporting. Now it's full frontal into exam prep (ours are start of May), so schools are pushed for time at this time of year.

Nothing

My DD is in 6th form now but when she was in the main school she didn't do anything.

Sometimes, the English teachers dress up at my school. One year, we did a really lovely activity, where the teachers of each period read a chapter of the same short story - so period 1, all students heard chapter 1, period 2- chapter 2, etc. The kids came in buzzing to hear what would happen next.

Last year, teachers were encouraged to read a chapter of their favourite book. The CEO of the Trust walked in on me (a History teacher) reading the Twits to a class in a Science lab because we don't have enough Humanities classrooms. He was most bemused!

Yes, my dc dress up every year at secondary.

Option to dress up or wear mufti.

We distributed the book tokens in my school and had a visiting author. We also gave a period a week over to private reading for a month. WBD is worth it for many children.

Yes at my DD’s independent girls school ! She had fun with a low key outfit - her last year of doing it!!

DC1's info sheet says they will do something and further info will be given closer to the date. We haven't heard anything yet, so I hope it's just a "take a book in" kind of activity. First year secondary; primary school didn't do anything for it, so I've no experience.

Ours puts a reading week on at the same time. Everyone silent reads their own book for the first 10 minutes of every lesson.
5 days, five lessons a day, they get a fair bit read. In the older years they tend to read their revision guides

No. I can't imagine many of the kids would want to dress up at DS's school.

They had a book swap. They could take in unwanted books to swap for different ones.

DD was quite excited to come home with three completely unexpected books.. she struggles sometimes to chose something new, but fell no pressure as they weren't costing money and friends encouraged her.