Slater Primary School
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World Book Day & Leicester Readathon 2023
World Book Day 2023
World Book Day this year is on Thursday 2nd March
World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and reading. It is a charity that operates in the UK and Ireland. Its mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income. We want to see all our children, with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them.
Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, World Book Day is marked in over 100 countries around the globe
Use the link below to find out what you can do as a parent.
https://www.worldbookday.com/families/
What is happening in school?
Competitions:
- Design a book cover about Slater Primary School
- Where's Wally? Find Wally hidden in the EYFS base
- Design a National Book Token
- Write about how to train your dragon
Activities around school
- Half a million minutes track my read: children record how many minutes they read. All the minutes of children taking part in Leicester will be added together to try and reach 500,000 collective minutes.
- Complete Read For Good storymaker activity
- On-line author events
- Older/younger children reading together
- Adults reading in different classes
- Children enjoying the brilliant free boxes of books we received from Read For Good