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A culinary-inspired World Book Week at the Junior School

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The Juniors enjoyed a fun-filled week of activities to mark World Book Day last week. Inspired by this year’s culinary theme, the girls were asked to create their very own recipe for a ‘Fit for a King’ cookbook, where the girls had to imagine King Charles III was popping over for tea. Years 3 and 4 created savoury starters, Year 5 designed some mouth-watering main courses and Year 6 developed delectable desserts. As well as making a collective cookbook available for parents to see, this was also a competition to be judged by the Redmaids’ High catering team! The girls were lucky enough to receive tips from cookbook author Kalpna Woolf via a virtual assembly on how to inject their own personality into a successful recipe page. 

On World Book Day itself, the Junior School added a twist to their book-inspired dressing by adorning themselves with utensils and cookery ware such as aprons, chef’s hats, tea towels and even cup cake crowns, staff included! 

All the girls had a brilliant time in their dance workshops with West End in Schools, as they choreographed routines to either Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile (Years 3 & 4) or Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (Years 5 & 6). 

Years 3 and 4 enjoyed a talk from author Tamsin Mori, who inspired the group with her adventure-filled, yet personal anecdotes to writing children’s books. Years 5 and 6 were enthralled by author Fleur Hitchcock’s talk about her own writing experiences, influences and the book editing and cover illustration process. 

All girls received a World Book Day token that they could exchange for a free book of their choice in participating bookshops. Whilst our girls are very fortunate to own books at home, we also took the opportunity to ask them to donate one of their own books to our outreach schools, with a message about why they hope the next reader will love it as much as they did. 

As always, thanks to the team at Max Minerva’s for helping to organize the author events as well as holding a WBD book sale at school. 

To support reading at Redmaids’ High we offer a Sixth Form/Year 5 Reading Buddy scheme. This week, the seniors will be escorting the juniors to Max Minerva’s for a tour of the shop, the chance to swap their WBD token for a free book and, find out about the latest reads from the booksellers’ themselves. What a treat! 

 

Date Posted: 8 March, 2023

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