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We had a great time celebrating World Book Day 2019 in St. Stephen's! As always, the festivities were planned to open up the benefits of reading to everyone - and everyone had a great time as every class celebrated books, reading and all that goes with it!

Check out the activities listed below; click on the underlined word to jump straight to that activity and read on to learn more about that particular part of our celebrations and see some photos. We hope you enjoy looking through our celebrations for World Book Day 2019 - we certainly enjoyed taking part in them!

* Favourite Books Podcast: It's a yearly tradition for World Book Day now, as boys from lots of classes speak about their favourite books! Click the link to listen to this super podcast of boys from lots of classes in St. Stephen's talking about the books that they were enjoying for World Book Day 2019!

* Miss Kenny's Class as Book Characters: Miss Kenny's Junior Infants dressed up as their favourite book characters and brought in books to read!

* Reading Time for 1st Class: Mrs. Breen's and Mr. O'Sullivan's 1st Classes enjoyed story time in the hall!

* World Book Day Poem: Miss Byrne's 4th Class wrote a very special poem for World Book Day 2019 - a poem that the whoel class wrote together! Click on the link and enjoy the wonderful work from 4th Class!

* Buddy Reading Mr. Russell's 5th Class and Miss Robinson's Senior Infants: Mr. Russell's 5th Class visited Miss Robinson's Senior Infants to talk about books and to read books and stories to the younger boys!

* Buddy Reading Mr. Beglin's 5th Class and Miss McGovern's Senior Infants: Mr. Beglin's 5th Class visited the boys in Miss McGovern's Senior Infants to talk about books and to read books and stories to the younger boys in Senior Infants!

* Buddy Reading Mr. C. Hayden's 6th Class and Miss Kenny's Junior Infants: Mr. C. Hayden's 6th Class visited Miss Kenny's Junior Infants to talk about books and to read books and stories to the younger boys!