Celebrating the 20th an of World Book Day


Sibford marked the 20th anniversary of World Book Day by holding a mini Literary Festival. On World Book Day itself, Thursday 2 March, pupils and staff dressed up as characters from their favourite book, listened to stories, took part in a book trail around the school and read staff book recommendations. Senior pupils


tweeted mini stories throughout the day on the school Twitterfeed (@ SibfordSchOxon) and Junior pupils visited Jaffé & Neale bookshop in Chipping Norton to spend their World Book Day tokens. The following day the school was visited by members of The Bookshop Band, who have written


and recorded over 140 book- inspired tunes.


Beth Porter and Ben Please from the band conducted two workshops as well as performing at the Friday Music Meeting. Then, on Wednesday 8 March, children’s author Katherine Woodfine visited the school to talk about the latest book in her best-selling series, The Sinclair’s Mysteries.


Centred on Sinclair’s


Department Store in the heart of Edwardian London, the books feature the exploits of daring detectives Sophie and Lil. Katherine completed a hat 8


Pictured left: The Bookshop Band an dressed as Sherlock; visiting Jaffé & characters from Harry Potter.


trick in February when the third book in the series, The Painted Dragon, was published. And when she arrived at Sibford she brought plenty of Sinclair’s- style hats with her for dressing up and encouraged pupils to do some of their own detective work by unravelling coded messages.


Speaking about Katherine’s


talk, Year 7 pupil, Mila said: “I liked the way that Katherine Woodfine made her visit as interactive as possible and that she brought in props to show us what things looked like in 1909.” Frances King, Librarian at Sibford School, said: “We are delighted to have so much going on around World Book Day. Reading really does open up new worlds and enrich children’s lives, so the more we can encourage our young people to read, the better.”


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