This year, we will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 6th March with a special assembly during the week, A WBD quiz during PSHE, ‘drop everything and listen’ (DEAL) on the day, a book swap, a Paddington and Hungry Caterpillar inspired lunch, ‘Finders Keepers’, the launch of this year’s GGS Reading Challenge 2025. In addition, check out a host of fantastic resources and competitions available from the official World Book Day organisers!
World Book Day 2025 – Match the Blurb to the Book
On the day, 25 members of staff will be wearing book covers on their lanyards. Match the correct blurb to the ‘book’ to be in with a chance to win £20 book token. Pick up a competition entry form from the library.
Book tokens
Pick up a book token from Ms Brown in the library to exchange for any of this year’s short yet powerful reads for FREE or get £1 off any book or audiobook of your choice. Our local booksellers are: ASDA Crossharbour or Waterstones in Canary Wharf or Greenwich. You have until Sunday 30 March 2025 to redeem. You can also download a digital token here.
World Book Day dashboard on Accessit
Click here to visit our special WBD page on Accessit – set the WBD dashboard at the top!
Design a National Book Token Competition 2025
The winning design will be made into a real life National Book Token gift card to be distributed across bookshops nationwide in time for Christmas! And there are National Book Tokens galore to be won too (up to £350 for the school and £100 for yourself; just imagine all those beautiful new books for the LRC).
All entries should be produced on A4 paper using a specific entry form. The closing date for entries is Sunday 6th April 2025. Find out more here or ask Ms Brown in the LRC for an entry form; we will send it off for you. Here are last year’s overall winning entries in each category (up to 8 years, 9-12 years and 13-16 years) below:
For further competitions, click here!