Theme: Mystery and Detective Stories
What makes a good mystery? Why do we love reading about detectives and criminal masterminds? What do we look for in a satisfying reveal of a crime? Once again, Hayesfield will be celebrating World Book Day 2025 on Thursday 6th March. To celebrate the joy of reading and sharing stories, all students and staff are encouraged to come to school dressed in costume (or with a prop) as either their favourite literary detective, favourite literary master criminal, or simply a character from a mystery story.
Key details:
Date: Thursday 6th March 2025, Week A
Costume: Costume is always optional – however it is wonderful to get involved and have fun on the day. Some may prefer to simply celebrate by bringing in a book, prop or talking about the theme. If this is the case, come in normal school uniform; you can show your enthusiasm in other ways. Costume must be a character from a detective or mystery book – this could be a detective or a criminal, or a character from your favourite mystery story.
Costume Prizes: As always, prizes are focussed on being creative with what you have – not on going out of your way to buy costumes or new resources to come up with costumes. On both sites there will be a Creative Costume Catwalk at lunch – for any who wish to share their amazing costumes. They will be judged and the winners decided by members of staff. Ideas for costumes include: Daisy or Hazel from Murder Most Unladylike, Pip in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Enola Holmes, or classic characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and Father Brown.
Get involved:
During the week leading up to World Book Day there will be activities running in The Book-Eyrie. Create your own codes, solve puzzles and murder mysteries with Murdle, and there will be a scavenger hunt with clues placed around UOP to collect. World Book Day vouchers will be distributed after half term, which can be used in most supermarkets and bookshops to get a discount on purchases or a free World Book Day book.
World Book Day Creative Writing Competition
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we will be running a creative writing competition with winning entries receiving vouchers for the bookshop, Mr B’s Emporium. Entries should be no more than 1000 words and be based around the theme: detective and mystery stories. Your entry could be a complete short story, or an opening chapter and should be handed in to The Book Eyrie or emailed to h.bloomfield@hayesfield.com by Friday 21st March.
For more information about any of these activities, please see Mr Skelton or Miss Bloomfield.
