Pupils Show Character On World Book Day
7th March 2025
Literature-loving children at Highfield and Brookham School have proved they have real character – quite literally!
The nursery, pre-prep and prep school was a positive riot of colourful, fancy, daring and downright clever costumes on Thursday as the pupils dressed up as their favourite literary characters to mark World Book Day.
From the youngest cohort in nursery right through to the oldest children in Year 8, the school was awash with fairytale princesses, cartoon heroes, the stars of bestselling books old and new, and a wealth of other children’s favourites.
On a day intended to celebrate books and reading in our hi-tech, modern world, Highfield and Brookham welcomed everyone from Tintin, Willy Wonka, Mary Poppins and The Mister Men to Harry Potter, The Hungry Caterpillar, Toothless and Gangsta Granny. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Elphaba, The Mad Hatter and the Three Little Pigs also joined in the fun.
Highfield and Brookham has a long and successful association with World Book Day, which was first celebrated in the UK in 1997, with literature and reading a key staple of the school curriculum.
And it wasn’t just the children who were bitten by the World Book Day bug as the teachers brought their favourite alter egos to the party too, with appearances by the likes of Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, Captain Hook and Sherlock Holmes.
Highfield Head Suzannah Cryer said: “Reading is an incredibly important part of education and reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success.
“There really is nothing quite like a good book. In the midst of our technological age, the opportunity to lose oneself in a favourite book, to let one’s imagination wander, to visualise characters and settings and to form opinions of those very characters and settings is incredibly special.”
And she added: “Our children love books and our children love to read, which is why our libraries are so popular. So how wonderful it is that our happy children get the chance to express their love of literature and school life in such a fun and creative way.”