World Book Day 2026!

7th March 2026Miss K. Wilkinson

What an incredible day we’ve had celebrating World Book Day at West Boldon Primary! Our school has been filled with amazing characters from the wonderful world of books, and we have been blown away by the creativity and effort that has gone into the costumes. The children – and staff! – all look absolutely fantastic. From classic storybook characters to modern favourites, it has truly brought our love of reading to life across the school.

As part of today’s fantastic World Book Day celebrations, Mandy and her amazing catering team also created a truly magical Alice in Wonderland-themed lunch for all of our children! The dining hall was transformed into a wonderful Wonderland feast, and the food looked absolutely unbelievable. From the creative presentation to the delicious treats on offer, it was a lunchtime our children will definitely remember!

In the afternoon, celebrations moved outdoors to our fantastic fire pit area, where the children enjoyed a truly special reading experience. Wrapped up in the fresh air, they toasted marshmallows over the fire while chatting with friends about their favourite stories and characters.

The children also had the chance to relax with a delicious hot chocolate while spending time reading their books together — the perfect way to celebrate a day dedicated to the joy of reading.

Days like today are a brilliant reminder of just how important reading is. Reading opens the door to imagination, builds vocabulary, develops creativity and allows children to explore new worlds, ideas and adventures. Encouraging a love of books at a young age helps set children up with skills that will benefit them for life.

A huge well done to everyone for making such a fantastic effort today, and thank you to our families for helping create such brilliant costumes. We hope today inspires even more children to pick up a book and discover their next great story!

Class 7 Trip to Live Tales!

16th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

We had a brilliant day out on Wednesday and Class 7 were amazing representatives of our school.

We walked to the metro took the metro (some of us had never been on a metro) and then walked to the old fire station in Sunderland. It’s been turned into a space for drama and theatre.

There we took part in some drama and story telling games and activities before settling down to create a new story. The children had so many awesome ideas and we put them all on a magic interactive wall! Hannah our coach, helped us choose ideas and we created two characters, a setting and the first part of our story.

She then asked us to finished the story! We all worked so hard to write our own endings and they were awesome! As a surprise, there was an illustrator working there and she created an image of our characters 🥰

What a brilliant day out!!

World Book Day 2024

7th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

We love reading at West Boldon Primary so we especially love world book day! The children (and staff) looked fabulous in their outfits and had a lovely day after Miss Ingoe’s class lead an assembly based on reading. We can’t wait for next year.

Year 3’s visit to Live Tales Sunderland

28th September 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 enjoyed a trip to Sunderland today to take part in a Live Tales workshop.

They discussed the essentials of storytelling, and learned that no idea is a bad idea when we are being creative!

They worked together to come up with a character, a sidekick, a setting and an introduction to the story before finishing it off independently. The children had such fantastic ideas and it was lovely to see them writing freely!

We are looking forward to receiving our stories in the post in the next few weeks.

Stone Age Non-Chronological Reports

26th May 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 have been working hard in Literacy this half term learning all about non-chronological reports.

They began by learning that non-chronological means ‘not in order’, and identified some typical features of reports such as headings, subheadings and technical language.

During the half term, they gathered information on the Stone Age (which was also their Dimensions topic!), before writing a report, and finally publishing it as a beautiful double page spread with pictures and text.

Take a look at some amazing examples! (click to enlarge)

World Book Day 2022

3rd March 2022Miss K. Wilkinson
WBD logo

This week we celebrated 25 years of World Book Day by coming to school dressed as our favourite book characters.

All around the school, children had a fantastic time completing activities related to World Book Day, reading with their friends and discussing their love of reading!

Here are some photos of us in our costumes…

 

Year 1

Year 1 children dressed for world book day Year 1 children dressed for world book day Year 1 children dressed for world book day

 

Year 2

Year 2 dressed up for World Book Day 2022 Year 2 children enjoying a story on World Book DayYear 2 children dressed for world book day
 

Year 3

Year 3 children dressed up for World Book DayYear 3 children dressed up for World Book Day
 

Year 4
Year 4 children dressed for world book day

Year 4 children dressed up for world book day

Year 6 children dressed up for World Book Day

Year 6 children dressed up for World Book Day

National Storytelling Week 2022

11th February 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

National Storytelling Week logo

This week we have celebrated National Storytelling Week in lower KS2.

As a school we already share a class story each day at 3pm but Miss Fraser asked us to try some extra activities from the list to celebrate.

Year 3 have been reading James and the Giant Peach in Guided Reading. We put our summarising skills to the test this week by making mini-books of the story so far.
We worked hard to design a suitable front cover, and drew some amazing illustrations to go alongside our writing.
Year 3's mini books of James and the Giant Peach
Year 3's mini books of James and the Giant Peach

Year 4 chose to celebrate with Harry Potter Day (Miss Ingoe’s favourite). We watched some clips about the potions class and created an ideas board of the ingredients we could use in our own potions. The children decided what their potion was for and wrote instructions on how to make it, while listening to some magical music for inspiration. Their ideas were fabulous such as a potion ‘to make me lucky’, ‘to make me meet the Arctic Monkeys’, ‘to make me be a princess’ and my least favourite ‘to make the teachers be quiet!’.

Finally, they wrote them neatly (some children even illustrated them) in their spell books we made before Christmas.
We also had a great time with paired reading today. We chose a book to share with a friend and either listened to the story or took turns to read the story. It was brilliant to hear!

Learning about poetry

2nd November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

This half term Year 3 will be reading George’s Marvellous Medicine in Literacy. Over the next couple of weeks we will be looking at different types of poetry and writing our own.

Today we discussed different types of poetry (who knew there are so many!), looked at the different features and decided our favourites.
We worked as a class to read the poetry features and match it with the correct poem.
Year 3 matching poems Year 3 matching poems Year 3 matching poems Year 3 matching poems

Year 3 Summer 2 Focus text

14th June 2021Miss K. Wilkinson
Leon and the Place Between book cover

This half term Year 3 are going to be reading Leon and the Place Between by Angela McAllister and Grahame Baker-Smith.

Wanting to prove to his brothers and sisters that magic really exists, Leon volunteers to be in Abdul Kazam’s magic show and gets transported to a mysterious world. Filled with rabbits, doves, playing cards and magician’s assistants – among other things – if a magician can make it disappear, it will end up in the Place Between.

The children are already so engaged in this story and can’t wait to read more in our literacy lessons over the coming weeks. Using this book as a focus, we will be working on writing diary entries, descriptions and upleveling our writing ready for Year 4!

Watch the video below to hear the text from start to finish.

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.