As well as dressing up as their favourite storybook characters, swapping books, reciting poetry and enjoying a visit from a local author to celebrate World Book Day, the children at Hillside First School had another treat in store.

They congregated on the school field with the staff and formed the shape ‘WBD’ whilst a drone captured the event as a forever memory.

Dave Graves, Headteacher said: “As a school we decided to create a week of memorable experiences for our children in order to continue to promote reading and its importance.

“The children and staff have had a great time and we wanted to try something a little different so created our World Books Day (WBD) image from above by using a drone.  It has all been very exciting.”

A video was also produced by the school during the day with ‘shelfie’ photos of children in front of their book shelves, plus a whole school shelfie.

Dave Graves added: “This week has had a huge focus on reading across the school and the children have had lots of great experiences to enjoy and learn from.  We’ve had an author visit our younger children, book swap, each class has been learning about an author and has performed a poetry recital to the rest of the school.  We had a World Book Day assembly and dressed up as our favourite book character, ‘shelfie’ photos (children photographed in front of their book shelves), a whole school selfie, drone footage, books at bedtime and a teacher reading swap.  It has been very busy, great fun and hopefully the children are very enthused about reading.