Aliens, Knights, Princesses, Animals, Mad Hatters and an abundance of Spidermen roamed the floors of Ranelagh on Friday. World Book Day 2025 is an important date on our school calendar. It is the culmination of Reading Week,where parents and carers come in to read with their children. This year, the marvellous Mrs Sheikh sourced free reading books for all the children.   

There were brilliant discussions with the Year 6 boys about their favourite author - it was a close call between Anthony Horowitz and JK Rowling. They remembered all  the books that they have read in English - Firework Maker's Daughter by Phillip Pullman, When Jessie came across the sea by Amy Hest , 

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka and The Boy in the Back of the Class by Onjali Q.Raúf- all wonderful pieces of literature. Their favourite, at the moment, is High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson.

Ranelagh is remarkably lucky to  have a reading curriculum that inspires children to comment on their favourites. This could not be done without the support they have at home and that was seen by the brilliant turn out for Reading week.

World Book Day is about lighting that spark - and by the costumes on show , on both the children and adults, a flame burns.

As Victor Hugo , author of Les Miserables, says’ “To learn to read is to light a fire”