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What an incredibly fun-packed day we have had at Ecclesbourne celebrating World Book Day 2026 and all things books!

To help get everyone excited about books, we hosted our annual ‘Books, Beans and Bagels’ breakfast morning. 

Ecclesbourne were luckily enough to have author Michael DeSouza visit this week. 

It has been a busy week in Reception! The children continued learning about the topic, ‘To The Rescue!’

Chants of ‘Take it off, take if off!’ echoed down the corridors at Ecclesbourne Primary School as children tried to guess who the masked reader was.

The children have had lots of exciting activities this week to celebrate book week.

An amazing book-filled week at Cypress! Brilliant Book Week 2026!  What an incredibly fun-packed week we have had at Cypress to celebrate all things books!

Happy world book week!  We have had a super fun week celebrating reading.

What a huge treat it was for us today to welcome the poet Steve Sobolewski to share the Friday of Book Week with us!

In Reception we we enjoyed exploring the story of Supertato in our literacy lessons.

On Monday, Paul Lyalls visited Ecclesbourne to kick start this year’s Book Week.

Cypress children have had a chance to browse the Book Fair today at the Upper site and see what is on offer.

What a fabulous week we have had in Little Cypress, exploring all things book-related!

Wow!  What an exciting start to our Book Week 2026!  Margaret Bateson-Hill led a wonderful assembly on Monday for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 to officially launch Book Week 2026. 

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