Pupils took part in school a competition where they were asked to create a front cover and a blurb for a book they would like to read.
Everyone at Biddick Hall Junior school enjoyed World Book Day 2025. We were lucky to have a visit from author Pauline Waters.
Year 6 competition winners:
Keevie Blackburn 6FD
Remedy Robinson 6SC
Sophia Craig 6GA
Year 5 competition winners:
Harper Farrell 5LR
Allana Addison 5AE
Year 4 competition winners:
Dakota Ramsay 4CL
Rosie Hopper 4KJ
Year 3 competition winners:
Naia Marcos Terzano 3NW
Hannah Watling 3BA
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day on Friday 13th September. Staff and children were encouraged to wear yellow and pay £1 for the Dahlicious charity. As well as finding out about Roald dahl himself all lessons were linked to a book written by Roald Dahl. A competition was also carried out where children designed their own chocolate bar.
This year’s World Book Day was focused on how children are more likely to enjoy reading when their choices are championed and we make reading fun.
Children and staff were encouraged to wear a costume relating to a book character.
For the full day lessons were focused around WBD. As part of this pupils were given the opportunity to take part in a school competition where they had to create a blurb and a front cover for a book that they would like to read. Additionally, they could enter another competition for which their entries will be sent away, this involved them design a national book token.
As part of World Book Day an author called Paula Fowler visited our school to tell us what inspired her to start to write books. She lives locally and is a self-published author of Wizard Beano and Pals.
We had great fun finding out about the two books she has written so far and finding out about the characters in her stories and how she created them. The themes of the stories are friendship, adventure, helping save the planet and looking after our wellbeing. We also found out a little bit about the book she is currently writing.
Well done to Sara Bainbridge Year 6 for completing all the texts and vocabulary levels on Reading Plus. An amazing achievement!
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day on Wednesday 13th September. Staff and children were encouraged to wear yellow (because this was Roald Dahl’s favourite colour) and pay £1 for the Dahlicious charity. As well as finding out about Roald Dahl and his charity some of our lessons were linked to a Roald Dahl book.
One of the lessons was a competition. We read extracts from the BFG and then linked with this the children drew something in a jar, like the ones the BFG had, that they would like to see in a dream. We had great fun!
Following the theme for this year’s World book Day ‘You Are a Reader’, our competition asked pupils to create a picture of themselves reading a book. It could be in their favourite place like on the sofa or in the garden. They could also use their imagination and draw a picture of a place they dream of reading a book – like in a rocket or on a sunny beach.
There were lots of amazing entries, but our winners were:
| Ivy Buie | 3CL |
| Amelia Nichol | 3AE |
| Kaya Briggs | 4NG |
| Hannah Burden | 4NW |
| Leighton-Jai Bigley | 5BA |
| Dale Sutherland | 5LR |
| Scarlett Atkinson | 5KJ |
| Jacob Lawson | 6GD |
| Kylie Hall | 6JO |
| Riley Scott | 6FD |
Everyone had a great day here at Biddick Hall Junior School!
Classes chose a video clip to watch as a stimulus and then completed a writing activity. One winner was chosen per class.
Writing competition winners:
Honey Rogers 3AE
Harper Farrell 3CL
Olivia Chapman 4NW
Mollie Raine 4NG
Alyssa Blakelock 5LR
Sara Bainbridge 5BA
Jessica Smoult 5KJ
Penny Stidwell 6GD
Charlotte Garrick 6FD
Libby Kulinich 6JO
