Reading is for life, not just for World Book Day
English teacher Clare Mee wrote in Book Week: "How can reading for pleasure help you in maths? Research by the Institute of Education shows that it does; researchers looked at the effect of reading on children’s cognitive development and found that reading for pleasure is an important indicator of a child’s future success.”
"As we know, building a pleasure in reading begins young, and reading to children from birth is powerful and underpins much of their initial development, both cognitive and in developing language skills.
"At Westbourne House School this development continues from nursery through to Year 8. During Book Week, we celebrated and enjoyed books and their characters!"
Favourites during the week included fireside reading, our Prep School pupils in Years 6-8 reading to the Pre-Prep children, the World Book Day Kahoot! quiz in assembly and of course the dressing up itself along the theme of animals in books!
The Kahoot! quiz, with all our pupils from Reception to Year 8, was fiercely contested by the patrols (houses) and the children raced to answer the questions as fast as they could. Who wrote The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and A Christmas Carol? Which photo is JK Rowling? Which book front cover is this picture on? Which character fell into the chocolate river?
Miss Williams, Head of English, said to the children afterwards: “It was really brilliant to see how much you all knew about the books, the characters and the plots – especially our children in the Pre- Prep. Keep reading!”
