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Catholic Primary School & Nursery

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World Book Week Information

World Book Week 2023 - w/c 27th February 2023

The first week back is going to be a book filled, reading extravaganza of a week so read this page carefully to find out what you need to do, where you can be and what you should wear!

 

  • We will be hosting a #Shelfie competition. Please send in pictures of your child with their favourite books, their bookcase, at a library or any other place you visit that has lots of lovely books. We will be giving a prize to the class with the most #Shelfies.
  • You can see a timetable below of all the events happening in World Book Week.

 

 

  • As it is World Book Week, we will also be hosting the book fair in school- how exciting! We want to see all children from St Rose getting excited about reading for pleasure. What better way then, for them to attend a book fair full of sparkling, exciting new books, that EVERYONE will love!

 

  • The Book Fair will be in school from Thursday 2nd March - Tuesday 7th March. For the first time, we are going cashless with our book fair. All payments for books will be made using a card machine so you will need either your phone (for Apple Pay) or your card with you. No cash payments will be accepted so you do not need to bring any cash with you, You can still use any gift tokens you may have and every child will be given a £1 book token in World Book Week, which they can use at the book fair.
  • So that our Book Fair does not become too busy, we have devised a timetable for different classes to come and attend. The timetable for the So that our Book Fair does not become too busy, we have devised a timetable for different classes to come and attend.
  • The timetable for the Book Fair is below. It will run after school from 3.30 - 4.00pm.

 

Thursday 2nd March 2023Book Fair for Years: Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
Friday 2rd March 2023Book Fair for Years: Years 3 & 4 
Monday 7th March 2023Book Fair for Years 5 & 6
Tuesday 7th March 2023ALL YEAR GROUPS WELCOME

 

  • You can also see a parent invitation by clicking HERE .This has a list of books that will be available at the book fair. There are so many wonderful books to choose from, from George Webster, to David Walliams, Dav Pilkey and Remi Blackwood. There are whole host of genres to choose from: adventure, non fiction, humour, etc. There truly is a book for everyone so please come down to the Book Fair on your day and get involved! Make sure you look at the INVITATION beforehand and get an idea of what books you might want to buy - it is a great way of seeing what books we will have on offer for you to enjoy.