Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy

4^th February 2022

Dear Parents / Carers,

On Thursday the 3^rd March, the whole school will be celebrating World Book Day. World Book Day is a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. The main aim of the day is to encourage children to discover their love for books.

As part of the celebration, we are asking every pupil to come to school dressed as their favourite book character and bring along their favourite book (there will be a prize for the best dressed child in Early Years, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two).

We guarantee that the children will take part in a variety of exciting activities that further promote a love of reading and writing.

To add a touch more excitement to the day, we will be holding Featherstone All Saints’ first poetry recital competition. This will involve the children learning a poem in their own class and choosing an individual poem to recite. The two best poets from each class will be chosen to compete against the other classes in school for a chance to win the main prize: a £25 Amazon voucher and selection of reading goodies.

If you would like to help your child be as successful as possible, help them to choose a poem they love and practise their reading at home out loud until they are confident and they know it by heart. If they would like to add actions for entertainment, this would be even better. I’ve attached a list of poems that they might like to choose from.

The first stage of the competition will be on Wednesday 2^nd March and if your child is chosen for the poetry recital final, it will be held on Thursday 3^rd March.

Many thanks in advance for your support and preparing your child for the day.

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at school.

Kind regards,

Mrs Newbegin

(English Coordinator and Year 5 Teacher)

Ideas of poems to recite for both KS2

All of these poems can be found by searching on Google.

KS1

Please Mrs Butler- Allan Ahlberg

Crabby- Barbara Vance

No Excuses- Allan Ahlberg

Eletelephoney- Laura Elizabeth Richards

My cat is fat- James Richards

On the Ning Nang Nong – Spike Milligan

LKS2

The Sound Collector by Roger Mcgough

Now we are six- A.A Milne

Herbet, Hilbert, Hubert, Snod- Denise Rogers

Happy Days- Enid Blyton

Please do not feed the animals- Robert Hull

UKS2

Refugees- Brian Bilston

Caged Bird- Maya Angelou

A bird came down the walk- Emily Dickinson

Double Trouble – Jackie Kay

Extinct- Mandy Coe

The Tyger- William Blake

Song of the Witches (Macbeth) – William Shakespeare

Rainforest- Theresa Mei Chuc