From the Library
Book Week Dress Up Day
This is a story about a witch, a fairy and a dragon.
The 2024 Book Week Theme ‘Reading is Magic’ inspired staff and students at McAuley to explore their fantasy and fantastic side during the dress up day on Friday, 30th August.
The dress ups were amazing, there were many people inspired by Shakespeare’s fantastic side. The witches from Macbeth, the fairies from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Caliban and Prospero from The Tempest gave an impromptu performance.
They were certainly not the only performances and a special mention goes to Mrs Hill for her singing rendition from Mary Poppins, Mrs Parkin for her Professor Sprout’s Science experiment and Anthony Young’s Red Dragon from Dungeons and Dragons telling his story.
The day was a lot of fun with so many people dressing up and getting into the spirit of the day. The students were inspired by a range of things from Teletubbies, Harry Potter, Dora the Explorer, Toy Story, Percy Jackson, How to Train your Dragon, Care Bears, Inside Out and Lord of the Rings.
While there were magical creatures in the quadrangle and dragons throughout the library. The ‘Magical theme’ was narrowed down to mean magical creatures, and in particular; Dragons! Dragons are currently a big fad in fantasy publishing and the stories are very popular with the students - some very stories at the moment are Eragon, The Hobbit and The Belgariad series as well as How to Train your Dragon. Have a look through the photos to experience some of the fun.
I would like to send a special thank you to all the staff and students who dressed up on the day.
I would also like to thank the people who helped on the day and decorate the library. Special thanks to Isaac Day, Pat Glesson, Mark Aspinall, Shar Papadakis, Lew Molloy, Jim Adams as well as the library staff Ann Fallon-watkins and Alex Eggins.
Linda Gleeson
Librarian
