World Book Day at Secondary School - what does your school do?

[roisin]

Does anyone's secondary school (teachers or parents) celebrate WBD? If so, what do you do?

Do you have any easy but creative suggestions?

Thanks,
Roisin

I'm an English teacher and easy things we've done in the past are competitions: to match the book (favourite, beach, favourite childhood etc) with the teacher, design a new cover, for older pupils match up quotations from famous books, favourite books of celebs etc. We also organise our book fair (Scholastic) for around the same time as WBD, focus on books in assembly, and make a big deal of giving out the tokens.

Thanks, Percypig. Does anyone else have any comments or ideas?

We're talking about a school with very little reading culture, though we do have two thriving book groups.

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Any more ideas anyone? We're actually trying to think of something to do on school-wide level: in form groups or whatever, rather than just in English lessons in English classrooms.

I have devised a WBD quiz to be done in form groups on the day; but the answers to the quiz will be found on posters around the school (with WBD logos on) for the week before.

What else can we do?

Was watching '12 books that changed the world' on ITV the other day. Could you do something similar, with one book for every subject, or at least 10/12 of them? Like a balloon debate thing - each department nominate one book to the balloon in a WBD assembly then kids vote on which book to save. Would have the advantage of being broadly linked to citizenship - voting process and all that!

Thanks Califrau
Just seen this!