Book week

The children of Buttercup Primary school have been busy this week with activities to do with Book Week.

The Travellors book company hosted our book fair , each day the book fair was opened to encourage everyone to buy their favourite books!

All week and throughout the day we had Stop, Drop and Read as the bell rang throughout the school to signal this event. Reading break time was carried out in the main hall as an alternative to playing outside and the Big Book

Parents were invited to join this week during storytelling session. Folk stories and stories were read out in different languages.

Many more activities from design a book marker competition were also held. The teachers swapped classes throughout the week and took their favourite children’s book with them to read to the children.

On Wednesday we welcomed Jackie Marchant, children’s author. Jackie was involved in delivering workshops with each classes on how to write an imaginative story.

The whole school participated by having everyone dressing up as their favourite book character ,the day finished with book signings with Jackie with parents and families.