This year, as I mentioned in my recent letter, we will be celebrating World Book Day on Friday 5th March. The full schedule of events for both children learning virtually from home, and for those children in school, will be available nearer the time, but for now I just wanted to let you know about a couple of important opportunities.
Every year during World Book Week we run a book fayre in school. This year we will be holding a Virtual Usborne Book Fayre instead. The catalogue is available here for you to browse in advance, and can be easily searched by age, category, etc. The major advantage of Usborne for Barrow Hills is that for every purchase made by you, we accrue a credit of free books for the school too. The Virtual Book Fayre will open for purchases on Thursday 4 March for 5 days. Details on how to place your order will be released at that time. Please do not order ahead of time as your purchase will not count towards our free books.
One of the great benefits to the school during World Book Week is that all children are usually asked to donate a new or nearly new book to the school libraries and the classrooms. This year, as we will not be in school, we are asking that where possible you donate via an extra purchase from Usborne or via our Amazon Library Wish List instead.
We will still be holding our usual fancy dress competition on Friday 5th March in form time – so start thinking creatively now. The challenge is to dress as a character from, or a representation of, your favourite book (see if you can choose a book rather than a film if possible) and see if we can guess who you are!