To celebrate World Book Day, EYFS and Prep pupils rolled out of bed and straight into school for a day in their pyjamas. We welcomed visiting artist Paul Pickford, who led an exciting creative storytelling activity called a Story Bounce. This interactive workshop encouraged every class to work together to create a brand-new story, combining imagination, writing and illustration. The story was titled “The Day It Fell From the Sky.”
A Mystery Begins
The story began with a mysterious event – a strange cube suddenly falling from the sky. It all started in a busy town where Steve, the local hotdog stand owner, was going about his normal day serving customers. Suddenly, something unusual happened: a mysterious cube fell out of the sky. Curious and a little confused, Steve became the first person to notice the strange object. From that moment, the adventure began.
The story was then passed from class to class, ‘bouncing’ ideas around the school – which is why the activity is called a Story Bounce. Each class in Prep and Reception played an important role in developing the story, from deciding what happened next to inventing new characters and helping to decide how the story would end.
As well as writing their sections of the story, pupils also created colourful illustrations to bring their scenes to life. These drawings helped show the characters, settings and key moments in the adventure. All of the pages – both the writing and the artwork – will be collected and turned into a real book. This means every class will have contributed to a shared story that the whole school helped create. The Story Bounce workshop was a fantastic way to celebrate World Book Day. It showed how stories can grow when people work together and use their imagination, helping create something unique that belonged to everyone in the school. Most importantly, it reminded us that anyone can be a storyteller – sometimes all it takes is one strange idea falling from the sky.
This was really fun because the art was really tricky but fun and it was exiting coming in our pajamas. It was fun reading to the little kids because they didt understand how to lift up the flaps and they just ripped them off.
i really enjoyed it because we got to wear our own pyjamas and read a book i read out three facts in the guiness world record book 2026 also we got to read out books that we made to the reception
Toban SB
i really enjoyed pyjama day.my best bit was the drawing were we got to draw a cube falling from the sky .
i also enjoyed wearing the pyjamas because they were really comfy.
i really liked coming in pjs because it was really comfy and i really liked making the books and i liked reading them to the little one beacsue all of them listended to me and connie just spread all on me and it looked likeshe fell asleep well nearly she did love it beacuse she loves shopping and i liked to hear everoneess books i love thursday!
claudia
i liked drawing with Mr Prickford and dressing up in my pjs and when we where drawing my best bit was when we where drawing the city.
leo.m
Even know i wasnt in it looked like you had an amazing time i liked the little box. oliver
I liked when we went to school in are PJ s. I went to school in my wicked PJ then we did a drawing with MR Paul. We drew a magic cube that fell from the sky and it was found by the hot dog man. Florence
I liked reading to the Reception children because they were really funny. The Book Bounce was amazing because I loved the hotdog man! Athena
I really liked wearing pjs and it was really fun making a story and reading are books to the receptions they really liked it.Can’t wait nest years world book day and I really want to do a book bounce next year.
-Edie Redfern PV
I really enjoyed world book day! I found it really fun. It was really fun when we had to do the picture story thing about the block that fell from the sky. I also liked reading to the ADORABLE little reception kids! It was really funny when I asked the reception kids,” Does my crab look like a spider?” And all of them said yes! It was hard to stop them from getting distracted and lifting the wrong flaps but I managed!
Lucy
It was good but I was not wearing my pajamas but it was still fun for me and there was a lot fun activities and Paul was the best in the day by Zulfikar
I really loved reading my book to the reception people, I read to Ahmed in reception and he wanted to read my book over and over again and I teached him how to draw the pig I drawnt in the end of my little book that I wrote (I didn’t make the book out of paper, I thought about what to put in the book and I wrote the book and illustrated the book) the book was called “dear farm” but it was originally made by Rod Campbell who made dear zoo.I also liked the fact that we got the chance to dress up in our pyjamas wrote by Austin
I liked World Book Day because we wore our PJ’s, we drew, coloured and we read to EYFS, Rose and I had the same pyjamas. First we had the artist Paul Pickford come to visit our class, we started a story for the school and Leo picked out the location in New York and who saw it first, which was the hot dog guy. When Alice and I finished we coloured the front cover of the book. Next after lunch we went to Early years and read to the little ones, I read to my sister Connie, Halle, Faith, Michaela and Nola, they loved my story and kept trying to lift the flaps in my book too early! Prep 5 gathered around the carpet to talk to reception and ask what their favourite parts of our stories were. I loved the day, wearing our pj’s and reading to the little ones, also no maths.
Darcy Spavin
It was realy adorable amd funny reading storys to younger classes and my pjamas werw so comfortable and matched with my teddy.
What caught me off guard was when Fibi said Mr Sad was looking for the right women.It was also surpising of how sensible they were!
-Anji S Prep V
I absolutely loved the story workshop and I loved coming into school in my PJs. I wish we could do that everyday! Alice Bailey
This was so much fun. Making a book is super cool and for people to buy even more cooler. I really tried to do my best and i hope that mines looks good although i did not finish the grass i think mines pretty good. I also think some people have really good ones! It was really nice wearing our pyjamas aswell. It would be fun to do this again. I can wait to see what the book looks like!
from : Jovi Cannon
I really liked making books to read to reception.I also liked making the bridgewater prep book because we got to start the story and name the story
Gabriel Griffiths prep5
I liked it when I got to wear my harry potter pyjamas.and the picture I drew.
It was so much fun 🤩
I really liked reading to kindergarten children. It was comfy wearing our pjs, I wish we could wear pjs to school every day. I enjoyed how you could just use your imagination when we created the story.
Robyn Prep V
I really liked Mr Pickford coming in to draw with us I found it relaxing funny and mentally stimulateing
and reading with reception.
Max.M
I liked how we didn’t know what was inside the cube until a dinosaur broke it open and there was a sample from every planet. Joe