Thought For The Day – Thursday 7th March 2024
Happy World Book Day
Happy World Book Day!
The theme for World Book Day 2024 is “Read Your Way”. This theme champions the appropriate personal choices and voices of people in their reading.
This is a good theme for life generally. We hear, and respect, people’s narratives and voices, engaging with their story.
In our world of busy-ness, conflict, heat and noise, reading can provide a sense of calm, happiness, light and peace. It can also let people know they are not alone, take people to a different place and massively empowers the empathetic and respectful communication and understanding, which is always vital to a compassionate, fair, kind and moral world.
It has been, and is still, Book Week at TBSHS with very thoughtful and engaging assemblies and activities led by Mrs. Miles, Mr. Shortland, Miss. Bishop and Mrs. MacEachern. You may be able to spot some literary characters around school today, whilst, in Period 4, there will be a special activity to promote reading across the school. Tomorrow, there will be a quiz in the library, whilst you should look out for the “Reading Around The World” house project in the coming weeks.
We also say thank Mrs. Matharu, all in the English Department and all staff for their promotion of reading.
As we live in the present, and work towards the future, a further sign of a good community is always remembering the past. Our librarian of thirty-one years’ service, Mrs. Fletcher, passed away on March 3rd 2020. A very kind, humble and wonderful person, Mrs. Fletcher dedicated so much of her working life to the school and lived to see herself be a character in a book by former student Greg James and his co-author Chris Smith in the “Kid Normal” series.
Mrs. Fletcher would be very proud of all the library, and reading and literacy generally, is and has become.
The poster below is from Barnsley College in Yorkshire.