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Every year, it is always a joy to see so many of our children and staff embracing World Book Day with a variety of creative costumes, and 2025 has been no exception.

Today, Ecclesbourne was joined by award-winning author, Andrew Clover. Andrew writes the ‘Rory Branagan: Detective’ series which now has seven books published.

Books, books books…. What a fantastic assortment of book characters arrived in Rainbows and Nursery today, in honour of World Book Day!

Year 2 have been having an absolute blast this book week.

We were thrilled to welcome author James Sellick to Ecclesbourne on Tuesday as part of our Book Week celebrations. 

It was a very exciting start to the day at Cypress Lower today as author Jeanne Willis came to visit us and her book ‘Bog Baby’ is part of our Reception curriculum. 

As part of our Book Week at Cypress Lower, we welcomed storyteller Kevin Graal to the school today.

Cypress School was buzzing with excitement as we kicked off Book Week with a fantastic visit from poet, Josh Siegal!

Yesterday, Year 6 had an online talk with the Author Matt Goodfellow. 

On Monday 3rd March, Brigstock opened its doors to children and staff dressed up in their favourite book character or in their favourite pyjamas and onesies, to celebrate ‘World Book Day’.

WHINF kicked off book week in inspirational style this week with a visit from a young author. 

Today, Ecclesbourne kicked off Book Week with an action-packed ‘speed read’!

We had a very exciting start to Monday morning at Cypress Lower as we had a wonderful assembly from author and storyteller Margaret Bateson-Hill to launch Book Week. 

The Year 6 children will be undertaking their Key Stage Two SATs  in just a few months, and we are all excited (on some level!)

Gold class has had a wonderful Spring term hearing and learning about different traditional stories.