Juniors creatively celebrate World Book Day 2026
Junior School pupils had a fantastic week of book-themed adventures, both in the classroom and outdoors, to celebrate World Book Day 2026!
From making disgusting menus, to dens, table decorations and restaurant reviews, children from Reception to Year 6, thoroughly enjoyed exploring the brilliant book, ‘Café at the Edge of the Woods’ by Mikey Please.
On the day itself, children excitedly arrived in a myriad of different outfits in role as either Chef, Clientele, Sommelier, Maitre D’ and more!
It was fabulous to see the pupils enjoying the day and talking so enthusiastically about everything they had done to explore the book!
Reception designed new café characters and brought them to life using AI, before heading outside to gather natural items to create imaginative ‘meals’ for the story café.
Year 1 created brilliantly disgusting café menus and built an outdoor café, recreating their dishes in the mud kitchen.
Year 2 collected forest treasures to inspire their own café plates, later using these ideas to write menus packed with expanded noun phrases.
Year 3 pupils made monsters’ menus using powerful verbs and built mud kitchen meals, while others crafted persuasive posters and created natural table decorations to go with them.
Year 4 developed creative new characters and menus inspired by the book, then used natural materials outdoors to build scenes, dishes or even act out their characters.
Year 5 gathered outdoor ‘ingredients’ to inspire their writing, later designing persuasive and revolting menus for a new restaurant guest!
Year 6 stepped into the woods to collect items and observe the café ‘ambience’, designing three course fine-dining plates using the outdoors, and then using these experiences to write sophisticated restaurant reviews.
Nursery celebrated World Book Day with the story ‘The Wish Tree’ by Kyo Maclear. In the story, Charles and his trusty companion Boggan go on a woodland adventure, searching for a Wish Tree. With the help of the woodland animals that he meets along the way, Charles finds the tree and writes his wish before heading home.
The pupils then went on their own woodland adventure to find a wish tree and once they found one, they made their own woodland wish to hang on the branches.
The children also made a four seasons stand up book showing the changes the wish tree would go through, went on a stick journey, made their own woodland recipes in the mud kitchen and even tried a spot of mud painting!
The children loved the story and particularly enjoyed dressing up as their favourite character from a book.
Pupils also had the opportunity to pick up a book for free from a variety of titles – creating much excitement and discussion!
All of the pupils showed wonderful creativity and imagination – what a brilliant way to celebrate reading!
