Shiplake pupils celebrated World Book Day last week with book related activities across all lessons. Lower School pupils took part in The Hobbit Escape Room and there was a Famous First Lines Quiz with prizes for the first pupils to send back the correct answers.
Every teacher was encouraged to share their favourite story with their class and change their background on their virtual lessons.
Year 12 literature students shared with Miss Hearn the books they have enjoyed reading:
Mr Bradley shared his love of sporting autobiographies:
Mr Bradley shared with pupils how he first got into books. He said: "As a boy I was never much into reading. I was always out and about playing sports or chatting to mates. Being by myself and having quiet time was not my thing.
"However, every holiday I went on I needed to fill the time in the car, train or plane. This is when I got into reading autobiographies (mainly of sports people). I found the 'real life' stories to be captivating - how did these people become the best? What problems did they encounter and how did they get beyond them? So the screen shot shows just a few of my favourite reads over the last few years.
"I also recommend the following auto-biographies: Graham Thorpe; Lance Armstrong: It's Not About the Bike; and Gazza by Tony Adams (and I am a Tottenham fan!)"
Mr Geyton shared an extract from Roald Dahl's The Twits in Year 7 Maths:
Mr Curran came to pupils 'live' from Shakespeare & Co in the heart of Paris, and shared 'The Veldt' by Ray Bradbury to Year 8 Spartans:
Mrs Palli-Evans ran a lesson with her Year 11 group about the power of reading:
She said: "I talked to the boys about my favourite book: A Child Counting the Stars by the Greek writer Menelaos Lountemis.
"It supports children’s right into equal opportunities in education and it concerns every human who, regardless of the era they live in and in spite of all obstacles, will do anything to satisfy their thirst for knowledge and learning. It is a pity that, as far as I know, it has not been translated into English."
At the end of the day Miss Hearn announced the winners of the Famous First Lines Quiz for each year group:
- Y7: Zac Fisher
- Y8: Ben Parrott
- Y9: Felix Collar
- Y10: Monty Walker
- Y11: Rudi O'Keeffe
- Y12: Alex Taylor-McDowall
- Y13: Katie Baxter
(Mr Miller (Eng) was the first staff member)
Famous First Lines Quiz - can you recognise the books where these first lines come from?
- All children, except one, grow up.
- Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy.
- These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket.
- One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry.
- In the hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
- Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
- There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
- A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good.
- If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
- Marley was dead, to begin with.
