to ask what your Y6 dc think about World Book Day 2018 and what they’re going to dress up as?

[GentleJones]

Ds isn’t mad keen on dressing up, even more so now he’s reached the final year of primary.

He might just go in his own clothes with one of his favourite books.

Can I ask what your Y6 darlings are going as? Do they still enjoy this?

I know it’s all part of the great ‘let’s get everyone reading and enjoy it’ and schools do a good job of that but doesn’t help when you have a dc who really doesn’t like the dressing up bit, luckily he’s an avid reader.

I’m not sure why I posted in AIBU but it has a lot of traffic and WBD can bring out the unreasonableness in us all (plus I’m being nosey and trying to get some ideas).

DD2’s school have decided to forego dress up this year - instead, they’re having a reading focus across the whole school. FU are focussing on fairy tales, with each parent asked to send in a photo of their child reading a fairy tale.

DD1 is in Year 7, and at her school only the teachers dress up as most year 11 girls will turn up dressed as Belle de Jour

I'm not sure they'll want to bother TBH.

I think it depends what the other year 6 boys are going to do - will they stand out more by not taking part or by doing so.

We've gone from a school that picked a theme - Shakespeare, Alice in wonderland, Narnia series so a range of characters male and female and planned a week of events with readings, putting short plays on, films, mad hatter picnics and walk through wardrobes with snow machines - to one that last two years they dress as one character for a photo and that's it.

This year it a wider range but from one albeit prolific author who they read when younger – and there are fairly normal dressed boys in there – but it’s still just for a photo.

By the time they get to Year 6 and they've been doing it since Nursery days most "CBA" I wouldn't have thought. I seem to recall that DD and most of the girls dressed up as characters from 'Gossip Girl' (which is based on a novel) that enabled them to look like more stylish versions of themselves!

DD is book mad and loves world book day. She tends to read YA sci fi and fantasy or classics. Last year she went as Ghastly Bespoke who is a cursed tailor (skull cap, scars and a 3 piece suit). Nearly every other child was a witch or something from Harry Potter.

She's reading Pride and Prejudice atm and wants to go as Mr Collins this year.

For his last couple of years at primary DS went in his regular clothes. He was reading books like the maze runner and hunger games or anything by David Walliams. All have kids / teenagers wearing everyday clothes. What books does he enjoy? He could take a prop of some sort to represent the character. DS took a loot bag and black eye mask for the boy out of Gangsta Granny one year.

My Y6 DD still likes it.

She's going as Primrose Everdeen. She just needs plaits, old fashioned blouse and skirt, Mockingjay pin and a tatty ginger cat toy.

Job done.

DD's brother is quite a bit older so she'd already done some of the age appropriate (such as Hunger Games) book characters at an earlier stage than Year 6.

Very over it here. We borrow the nomenclature from a poster last year and refer to it as 'Cunting World Fucking Bookday'. But only at home.😮

We are doing a character from War Horse. DS hasn't decided which character yet, hopefully its a soldier and not the horse

Ds1 is in Year 5 and is going as Greg Heffley (diary of a wimpy kid). Black trousers, white t shirt, backpack and i'll print off a mask and stick to cardboard for him to hold up.

My DD is yr 6 and had her costume all planned until school announced the theme this year was words and they should go dressed as their favourite word! Any ideas gratefully accepted.....

dont like beards how about person, human, girl....what was she going as could that be turned into a word? Princess, witch, teacher, soldier, park keeper are all words

Sons school have had a range of themes over the years......Julia Donaldson charaters, where’s wally, nursery rhymes, rhoald Dhal books......a few parents complained about cost / older ones not wanting to join in so this year it is “bedtime reading” and they all have to go in pyjamas and take their current bedtime book.

dontlikebeards What's her favorite word?

I’m an English teacher and I hate WBD dressing up. It does nothing to promote reading or literacy. This year my school has decided all staff will dress up. I’m liking a PP’s suggestion of a muggle.

Thanks for the ideas, it certainly gives me a place to start!

My dd was in yr6 last year and pretty unimpressed. In the end I think she went in normal clothes as a character from Jacqueline Wilson.

DS is yr5, he will just go in normal clothes.

If the school he really wanted a book - the big boy cousins in Katie Morag just wear blue jeans and a white t-shirt.

DD loves it. Going as Amazing Esme. Most of the boys in her class don't partake.

DS was in yr 6 last year, he went as Wild Boy, he won a book token and was happy. Think he's a bit nostalgic this year as they don't do it in secondary school.

DD is yr 4 and wants to be a Suffragette (nobody says it has to be a fictional character). The school does some 'gem power' bollocks thing, and has incorporated that into this year's WBD. But on questioning DD, one of the 'powers' is something like 'trying really hard in the face of adversity', so I think we're sorted...

DS went as James Bond once, do just wore a suit and took in a toy gun and a martini glass!

Previous years he went as Sherlock Holmes, Bilbo Baggins and Captain Nemo.

I would like dd to go as Anne of Green Gables as she has long red hair which i could plait and i could get a straw boater and her wear a dress. I think the chance of her agreeing to that is zero
I think she wants to find out what others are doing before deciding.

Our school puts restrictions on as well annoyingly. Don’t know what the restriction is this year! So cannot sort a costume yet. Very annoying.