Monday, 4 March 2024

IWD and World Book Day Quiz

There's a lot to celebrate this week. It's International Women's Day on Friday - 


and there are loads of fantastic events taking place, including today's Classics Society presentation on Female Writers in Antiquity (it's not just Sappho, you know), Wednesday's Senior English Society meeting, with Miss Trepanier discussing feminism and narrative form, and Thursday's Sci-Fi/Filmsoc mashup, on women film directors to watch. You can find out more about all the events taking place here.  And as if that wasn't enough excitement for one week, Thursday is World Book Day!!!

This year's festival of all things book-related includes the Kayton Library's second 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' quiz (you can find out more about last year's here). The library also asked teachers some book-themed questions - including 'which book would you save from a burning building?', 'which book influenced you as a child?', 'which book did you throw across the room?' and 'which book have you always wanted to read?' Watch out for the posters based on people's answers: they'll be popping up all over the school.
 
Here on the book blog, we're running a week of 'match the teacher to the shelfie' quizzes.  What is a 'shelfie'? we hear you cry. Well, this photo can probably help you figure it out:


Every day, we'll be posting some shelfies and challenging YOU, the Pauline reader, to work out which bookshelf belongs to which teacher.  Today, Maths, Geography and History go head to head: Miss French, Mr Allon, Mr Isaac, Mr Poyner, Mr Fagan and Miss Milanova have bravely sent in their shelfies.

So, click here to try today's quiz: on whose bookshelves do George Orwell and Pat Barker stand side by side? Where does Alex Bellos hang out with Laura Bates? Ben Stokes and Robert Webb jostle with nineteenth century explorer Richard Burton? Who delivered our first ever digital shelfie? And who hasn't taken their Christmas decorations down yet???

Answers will be revealed tomorrow ... !


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