Read for RNIB!

We've had a very busy day during our book day today! Whilst having lots of fun reading and taking part in different activities, we also learnt lots about how people with visual impairments read too.

To raise money for the RNIB, we all dressed up as our favourite book characters. Can you work out which characters we came as? Here are a few of our costumes!

 

Every class had a classic book to work with during the day. Year 6's text was George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. We used the book to create our own marvellous medicines!

 

Here's Cleo's medicine to cure  annoying sisters and make them turn nice!

 

 

We've also been learning a lot about the work of the RNIB in assembly because they came in to talk to us about how they help visually impaired people. Our guest even showed us some of the things that we take for granted but need adapted for VI people. For example, they supply children with felt tips that have different smells for each colour because their impairment might mean that they can't see the colour of the pen.

Mr Cownie also came in to talk to us about Braille and answer our questions about how it is used and how it works.

 

We took part in a sponsored read to raise lots of extra money for the RNIB too!

 

 

Miss Clarke-Lens came in to read a story to us. She picked one of her favourite books - Leon and the Place Between! Meanwhile, Mr Earle had the chance to read a story to children in Year 1!

Taking on board what we had learnt about visual impairment, we made our door into a huge cover for George's Marvellous Medicine. Look at the wacky ingredients that made it into our pan! Can you spot.... Perfume? Toothpaste? A battery? Shaving foam? A banana? To make our cover accessible to visually impaired pupils in our school, we ensured that our pictures were textured to stimulate the sense of touch in our VI pupils when they explored our book cover.

 What was your favourite part of RNIB Book Day? Add your comments below!