Woodham Academy’s staff got into character to celebrate World Book Day.
Students also brought books into school to swap with their friends while teachers from the English Department dressed as literary characters.
World Book Day is the annual celebration of reading, books, authors and illustrators, marked in more than 100 countries.
Woodham Academy has invested heavily in reading, including in a reading suite with cosy rooms and soft furnishings. The school has a wide-ranging reading library and has introduced a screening, monitoring and intervention system to assist their learners to develop ‘active reading’ skills.
The school’s extensive extra-curricular and support programme has helped students record Woodham Academy’s best-ever GCSE results. In English, 78 percent of students achieved a pass of grade 4 or higher this year compared to 73 percent for the county as a whole.
Pictured are English teachers Kirsty Orr and Anya Thomas, with student Kacper Krystek.
