London Fields Primary School

For World Book Day, Okita Class wanted to celebrate a pleasure for reading, and all the beloved story characters by creating a piece of art! 

For World Book Day, our school continued its long-standing tradition of older children reading with the younger classes. This year, Reception welcomed visitors from Year 5, who spent time reading a selection of books with them.

Many of the Year 5 children remembered being in the same Reception classroom themselves just a few years ago. They were pleased to return as more confident readers and share stories with the younger children.

On World Book Day, we loved dressing up as some of our favourite characters in our favourite books. A few of us dressed up as characters from our English text "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane." We loved talking about the books that we love reading and sharing our recommendations.

Year 2 had a fantastic World Book Day! We loved working out who each other had come to school dressed as, and one of us dressed up as a huge book they had written themselves! 

Year 6 had a brilliant time celebrating World Book Day with a range of activities focused on sharing and enjoying books.

To start the day, the classroom was filled with lots of different book characters. Each pupil had the opportunity to introduce themselves in character, pretending to be the character from their book. The class asked them questions so they could tell us more about themselves, the book they are from, and what happens in their story. They also explained why they would recommend their book to others. It was fantastic to see how confidently everyone spoke and how well they understood their characters and stories.

Later, we played a game of Book Bingo. Working with a partner, pupils had to find books they had read that matched different categories on the bingo board. Some of the categories included finding a book that was funny, based on a true story, or a book that was about friendship. This encouraged lots of discussion as pupils shared the books they had read and talked about their favourite stories.

Overall, it was a really enjoyable day that celebrated reading and gave everyone the chance to share books they love with their classmates.

In our recent assemblies, we have developed our knowledge about the Hindu festival of Holi. Millions of people are celebrating Holi, the festival of colours, spring and love in India and across the world today. We learned that the spring festival celebrates the victory of good over evil, and also marks the end of winter. 

We explored how Holi celebrations can include people gathering in the streets and throwing colours on each other and lighting bonfires the evening before Holi in the belief this will destroy the bad so that good can triumph. 

While learning about Holi, we made lots of connnections to other religious festivals and other celebrations. We all agreed that coming together, as a community, to celebrate events can make people feel very happy and support a sense of belonging. 

Some children went home and carried out their own independent research about Holi. They shared with their classes drawings and factfiles about the festival- everyone was very impressed with their additional learning! 

In Spanish this half term, Year 4 are learning about various Spanish Artists and how to communicate whether they like (me gusta) or do not like (no me gusta) different artistic styles.