On Friday, Tavistock
and Summerhill School in Lindfield was buzzing with Mathildas, Big Friendly
Giants, Willy Wonkas, and Twits for Dahlicious Dress Up Day, a charity fancy dress
fundraiser for Roald
Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity www.roalddahlcharity.org. Local authors Dr Robert Hodgkinson (Henry and
the Alphabet Spaghetti) and Alison Milford (A Children’s History of Sussex and
writer for the Oxford Reading Tree) and former parent, Marilyn Bradley judged
the fancy dress competition. Afterwards there was special Dahl themed quiz and
lunch.
This was the
culmination of a week of activities to celebrate 30 years of Roald Dahl's BFG.
On Monday the
children took part in a live pod cast featuring author Michael Rosen (Roald
Dahl’s biographer), Quentin Blake - the illustrator who bought all of Roald
Dahl’s characters to life and David Walliams - reading the dream chapter from
the BFG dressed as the Big Friendly Giant himself. The children voted for their
favourite Roald Dahl characters and their suggestions were sent in to the pod
cast team before the event. As the BFG is a dream weaver, following the
podcast, the children described their favourite dreams.
“Fantastically fabulous fun!” commented the Head,
Andy Giles, “This is a great opportunity to enthuse the children to about
reading, have fun and help children less fortunate than themselves”
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