P3/4 at Macmerry Primary hosted a very successful book group launch party yesterday at Macmerry Primary School. Book ambassadors from our cluster schools came to have an afternoon of fun activities based on Roald Dahl’s books.

It was a brilliant opportunity for pupils to get together and talk about what they have read, their favourite parts of certain stories and to hear about books that they might like to read in the future.
The pupils visited three activites.
Miss Wilson was in charge of the chocolate factory for the afternoon. Pupils pretended to be Oompa Loompas, carrying chocolate pots on their heads. They made their way through the factory, balancing over the chocolate river, stepping carefully across the chocolate stepping stones and crawling through the underground tunnel without dropping their chocolate pots. When they were in the factory they were free to have a break and play some games, Greedy Visitors and Roald Dahl Corners.

Mrs McBean and the pupils got creative in the The Witches room to create sounds to link with a passage of The Witches. The pupils performed these to the rest of the group before decorating witches hats with sound words like ‘whiz’, ‘bang’ and ‘crackle’!
The third activity was based on The Twits, led by the Roly-Bird (Mrs Baird). Pupils who hadn’t read The Twits found out just how disgusting Mr Twit is and created a disgusting beard full of rotten food.
There were some brilliant costumes; Willie Wonka, The Enormous Crocodile, witches, Roald Dahl as a boy, Mr and Mrs Twit, George (with his wooden spoon and medicine recipe book) and Charlie Bucket to name a few!!!


The pupils worked extremely hard to ensure that the event would be fun for everyone and well organised. Each pupil had a very important job to do and they performed these jobs perfectly!!
P3/4 – you did a scrummdiddlyumptious job!!! Well done!!
We hope our visitors had a great time!