St John’s celebrates the wonderful world of fiction

St John’s Primary School and Carnlough Community Nursery celebrated World Book Month in style recently.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Mar 2015, 05:00 BST
Children dressed up as their heroes for World book Month at St John's Primary School, Carnlough. INLT 12-630-CONChildren dressed up as their heroes for World book Month at St John's Primary School, Carnlough. INLT 12-630-CON
Children dressed up as their heroes for World book Month at St John's Primary School, Carnlough. INLT 12-630-CON

All children and teachers dressed up as their favourite book characters and had a special assembly to talk about their characters.

Children went to tremendous effort to make their own costumes such as ‘Little Miss Sunshine, Matilda, Mrs Twit and Esio Trot to name a few.

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Reading was promoted throughout the school during the month with a book fair and different activities for each Key Stage. The nursery had a character catwalk fashion show, P1 and P2 had a brilliant bedtime story session in the evening, and Key Stage One had a book treasure hunt.

P4 also had a bun sale to raise funds for Trocaire.

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