'Twas the night before World Book Day, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring… apart from a rather frazzled headteacher' | ✍️ Liz Stanford writes for MetroOpinion
’Twas the night before, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring… apart from a rather frazzled headteacher, desperately trying to put the finishing touches to tomorrow’s costume.
I check that everything else is ready – the hat, the tie, the skirt. ‘Is it perhaps a little short?’ I wondered for a second before shaking my head. ‘Too late, it will have to do!’uniform, a few safety pins, a borrowed blazer from one of the larger boys at school, and a rather fetching hairpiece from my sister who is into amateur dramatics., created by UNESCO in 1995 and adopted in the UK in 1997, as a way of encouraging reading for pleasure and celebrating books.
I’m not averse to a bit of dressing up – my witch’s costume from the Halloween Fun Day last year still gives some children nightmares. Maybe the papier mache mask was a step too far, but I digress. The rest of the staff are all in by 8am, prepping worksheets and classrooms, despite knowing full well that the chances of students doing any work are pretty slim today.The date for World Book Day differs each year but it tends to be a week or so after half term, when the children are settling into a routine again and just before
There’s much conferring over the winning costumes. Out of the three Dennis the Menace outfits, there’s one which has clearly been purchased, one put together rather cleverly by the parents and a third where the child has created it himself with sticky backed plastic and wool.– wearing a teddy bear onesie and producing marmalade sandwiches from under their hat – and Rapunzel, with a very long plait of wool for hair. Simple but effective.
It’s turned rather windy and it looks as though Mary Poppins, who is on playground duty, is about to take flight. I rub my temples to try and rid myself of the headache that has suddenly come on.
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