Pupils at Bromsgrove School enjoyed a wonderful World Book Day with exciting activities throughout the School.
At the Pre-Preparatory School the day was celebrated in style, with all the children and teachers dressed up as characters from books. A grand parade in assembly was followed by a quiz and other activities included a Bear Hunt through the school garden, a 'Where's Wally?' hunt and various other reading games and fun.
At the Preparatory School pupils also dressed up as fictional characters, but had the added privilege of a special visit from teen fiction writer Sarah Singleton. She talked to pupils in Years 7 and 8 about her career as a writer and offered creative writing tips. Sarah read an extract from the beginning of her novel, Amethyst Child, setting the pupils up for writing their own opening paragraphs in a similar style. Fraser Foster (aged 13) wrote a piece set just after the Second World War, whilst Ben Bridgman (also 13) went further back in time, writing about Quintus, a Roman Centurion with a dilemma. Many pupils bought her books The Island and Century whilst Sarah signed them and chatted to pupils about her work. Sam Gilbert of Year 8 suggested an interesting title for Sarah’s latest book and Nandini Bulchandini of Year 5 was able to show Sarah her own book she had been working on.