World Book Day 2025    

We had lots of booky fun again for Book Week/World Book Day. Have a look below to see some of the treats we had. Amazing book-related activities happened throughout the school that week, in the library and in the classrooms.

Create a Potato Book Character - Competition

The children created fabulous potato book characters, using pens, bits found around the house (wool, fabric, card, etc) - whatever was needed to create their character. Here are the winners- see if you can guess the characters. And have a look at our Potato Parade video below.

Secondhand (and Some Unused!) Book Sale

We had a mixture of donations, secondhand books and books withdrawn from the library for sale (only 10p each!) during the week. 

More Than Words...

At our after-school event we discovered different types of books and created our very own book. We looked at all sorts of books - pop-ups, zig-zag, wordless, Ology, jigsaw books, Braille, lift-the-flaps / see inside, and more... 

Bookmark Colouring & Making

We had 3 very busy lunchtimes where lots of children came along and enjoyed colouring in and creating lovely bookmarks. Have a look at some of the designs below.

Accessorise Yourself!

It is often traditional for some school children to dress up to celebrate WBD, however, with the cost of living crisis affecting so many families we didn't want to put any undue pressure on parents to go out and buy costumes. So, on the last day of Book Week, we thought we'd try something different. Instead of a book costume, children were able to wear a bookish accessory -  a hat or scarf or similar, have their face painted or even wear a badge that a book character might have.  For example, Where's Wally and his red and white striped hat. It was not compulsory and was just for a bit of booky fun!

In the spirit of encouraging children to read, we were also far happier for children and parents to spend any money on a new book, rather than a new costume.

Fantastic Friday Freebies!

At the end of our busy Book Week, each child received a free World Book Day book, a specially designed bookmark and their £1 World Book Day token. Thank you to our Library Assistants for making the packs up.

World Book Day

World Book Day in the UK is celebrated every year on the first Thursday of March. Publishers and booksellers come together to give children a token to exchange for one of the WBD books, so you get a book for FREE! Or you can get £1 off any other book. Check out the The World Book Day website (click on the above banner) - it is an amazing place to explore. Not just for World Book Day but all year round!

Great things to do includes:

• watch booktrailers
• make and do
• watch author videos
• colouring
• read book extracts
• check out author & illustrator masterclasses which include videos and teacher’s resources
• brief themed booklists
• recommended reads
• expert story writing tips
• teaching guides & resource packs for particular books & authors

Also on the website under the Inspiration heading, World of Stories podcasts has a selection of free audiobooks. I

World Book Day at Parkgate

Although we celebrate the joy of reading throughout the year, we make an even bigger thing of it during the week of the national World Book Day. This normally falls on the first Thursday of March each year, although we usually celebrate it on the Friday.

We often do several activities, which can include a sale/ bookswap, lunchtime reading, World Book Day library and foyer display, giving out the WBD tokens and the last few years we have also given out a free WBD book and a bookmark.  There are also fun booky-related activities and learning in the classrooms.

On top of this, we always do a competition. Yay! Have a look below at the different competition themes and see the fun we've had doing this.

Previous World Book Days