Literacy Week and World Book Day Success

The Wycliffe Literature Festival, incorporating World Book Day, was an intense, busy, and enriching time for our pupils.  

In the Prep School, pupils dressed as their favourite book characters. It was an impressive effort by all. We invited parents to Pre-Prep pupils to come and read a book to the children, and most of the school doors were brilliantly transformed into a creative book theme! 

Spoz made a guest appearance, doing workshops with pupils. Spoz is an award-winning performance poet, singer/songwriter, filmmaker, and playwright who was the poet-in-residence at Birmingham City FC. He has been seen on BBC and Central Television, written for and heard on … BBC Radio Four, Radio Five Live, Radio West Midlands, Radio Coventry & Warwickshire and Capital Gold.

Lindsey Cole visited the Prep School and worked with Nursery to Year 3 pupils.  Lindsey retold her story ‘The Mermaid and the Cow’, with children (and staff) getting dressed up in an array of costumes.

In our Lauren E James, author, script editor and founder of the Climate Fiction Writers, gave a STEM-based talk to Year 9 pupils and led a workshop on the theme of writing diversely with Year 12/13 English pupils.