Book Week 2025

Wallace Fields Junior School is holding Book Week starting Monday 3rd March 2025. The purpose of our Book Week is to encourage children to pick up a book and read! We are planning lots of opportunities for cosy reading and visits to the library. The Theme is "Read what you like." So please encourage your child to bring in a book they love that they can enjoy reading all week. Children are welcome to bring in pillows, blankets or onesies (over uniform) for cosy reading (please ensure they are named). 

We would like to invite you to come into school one afternoon and share a favourite book (current or a childhood favourite) with a class for 10 - 15 minutes. Also, if you have a job as a writer, illustrator, publisher etc., please come and share that with us. Parents, Grandparents, Siblings or other relatives are welcome. If you would like to come into read then please email Office1@wallacefieldsjun.surrey.sch.uk.

Please can all children bring in a shoe box or similar size cardboard box by 3rd March 2025 for a competition during Book Week. 

Within our exciting Book Week, children will also take part in a writing task. The task will be based on our school guinea pigs with the title, "The day our guinea pigs went on an adventure..." The children will be given the choice of how they would like to create this imaginative adventure. They could write a story or a poem, or create a graphic novel or comic book! The choice will be up to them and we can't wait to see what our school guinea pigs could get up to after everyone has gone home.

On Thursday 6th March 2025 we will have a Book Character Day where all the children and staff shall dress up as a book character. We do not expect parents to go out and buy costumes. Children on a PE day should wear trainers and loose clothing as part of their outfit to accommodate the PE lessons. 

On Thursday 6th March 2025 Emma and her crew of Twelve15 (the lunch providers) will be doing a Book Week themed menu. 

PTA will be running a Book Sale during Book Week - Please bring in your donations by 28th February 2025.

Thank you in advance for your support with this exciting event. 

Book Week 2024

The children and staff all had lots of fun during our Book Week. There was lots of cosy reading, trips to the library, sharing books and recreating a book in a box. Thanks to Mrs Clarkson, Mrs Day, Mrs Hernandez and Mr Lee for reading their favourite books to the children and sharing their passion for reading with the children. There were some fantastic and very creative costumes on Thursday and the selection of book characters was truly inspiring. 

The scholastic book fair we held during Book Week raised over £850 for the school, which will be spent on books for the school library, class libraries and book sets for classes. Thank you very much for your tremendous support.

Book Week 2024

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Book Week 2023

Another fantastic Book Week!  From Shelfies to Selfies and Cosy Reading to exciting performances.  This has been a Book Week to remember.

The theme was travelling to other parts of the worlds through books. We have learnt lots about cultures that may be different to our own and perhaps have inspired some travels in the future. Year 3 travelled to China via books, Year 4 Sri Lanka, Year 5 Brazil
and Year 6 Himalayas/Tibet.   All the children also enjoyed cosy reading in the hall with
pillows and blankets.

Thanks to the Mrs Salmon, Mrs Oxer, Mr Studley, Mr Lee, Mrs Day, Mrs Elliot and Mrs Boddy who came into classes to read their favourite books.  Children had fun guessing the Teacher from a "shelfie" of books.  Mrs Crabb will be circulating the answers next week.  Thanks to caterers Twelve 15 for having a book themed lunch on Friday 3rd March 2023 and a puzzle competition.

Thank you to the PTA for running a second hand book stall which raised an amazing £225!

Many of children dressed up on Friday to celebrate their favourite book characters - thank you to all the parents who helped pull together such fabulous outfits.

Please below some photos from Book Week (one slideshow per year group) most have already appeared on Twitter plus a few more.