World Book Day 2026 – Whole-School Workshops
Thursday 5th March 2026
Celebrate World Book Day 2026 by bringing your favourite books to life with one of our best selling workshops!
Our World Book Day workshops sell out well in advance so get in touch now to reserve your date for World Book Day 2026!
Whether you’re looking for a visit from the world’s latest superhero (our very own Bookman), an opportunity to learn more about well-loved Shakespeare characters, create your own whole-school poem, or go on a magical storytelling journey in our Extraordinary Adventures of Fillolog workshops, you’ll find something to suit you here.
For Primary Schools you can also purchase and download The Adventures of Fillolog World Book Day teaching pack – providing more than two hours activity for every class in the school over at ascreativesconnect.com.
Workshops
Purposeful Writing – With Pirates!
This colourful programme places pupils at the heart of a fictional world when they receive a surprise visit from our friendly pirate, Captain Morgan!
CSI: Bookmark
When the Book Review Competition entries are mysteriously jumbled, pupils use their knowledge of well-loved stories to piece the tales back together.
Family Literacy
A fun and friendly workshop designed to highlight the joys to be found in books and stories.
Ways into Shakespeare
Experience a range of Shakespeare activities that both link in perfectly with Shakespeare in the curriculum and extend horizons.
Shakespeare for GCSE and A Level / S4 – S6
School Workshops It’s unlikely that any of Shakespeare’s actors ever saw full copies of the plays they appeared…
Scrambled Stories: The Return of Bookman / Paige Turner
School Workshops Already enjoyed A Visit from Bookman or Paige Turner? Well, now you can now invite them…
Paige Turner’s Fiction Mission
School Workshops If the characters in our favourite stories only come to life when their tales are read,…
The Character Hunt
School Workshops The great characters of fiction leap off the pages of the books they inhabit and into…
The Extraordinary Adventures of Fillolog!
Whatever book our friend Vistie was reading as a little girl, it always featured Fillolog, an extraordinary creature with an extraordinary appetite for stories.
A Visit from Bookman
Bookman needs the children to help him begin rebuilding his memory and regain his superpower!
Performance Poetry: Rhythm, Rhyme and Action
School Workshops A magical route to seeing how poems can be changed and transformed through choral speaking. Introduction…
Outdoor Poetry
Using school grounds as a resource, we’ll guide pupils to see ordinary things in extraordinary ways – and weave magical tapestries of words.
The Poet-Tree
School Workshops From tiny acorns … great verses grow … Every tree starts as a seed – a…
The Poetry of Shakespeare
This engaging activity puts them centre stage by bringing out both the visible and the invisible.
Messages from Space
School Workshops What do we know about Neptune? What’s the science of Saturn? And what’s our understanding of…
Poetry Live!
Streamed Workshop Poetry Live – Join one of our team for live workshops, beamed straight to the classroom!…
Cinquains of Truth – People Whose Choices Shaped the World
School Workshops Progress towards equality in a diverse world has been made possible by people who made choices…
Collaborative Poetry
This workshop provides a fantastic way of linking poetry to other areas of the curriculum!
Poetry in Sight
Our poetry writing workshops encourage pupils to play with words and rhythms while working to the restrictions imposed by different poetic forms.
Spotlight on Shakespeare
This workshop takes students right through the play, exploring the backstory, meeting the main characters and bringing key moments to life.
Introducing Shakespeare
A fantastic and very energetic way to engage your students in the playwright, his life and works – and prepare them for their studies to come.
The Play’s The Thing
Our Shakespeare programmes prove popular and successful both nationally and internationally.
CSI: Reading Skills
Specifically designed to support pupils in making connections between different ways of “reading”.
International Women’s Day Poetry Workshop
Celebrate the power of women working together, remembering their achievements through verse.
World Poetry Day – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Celebrate the lives and achievements of some amazing British writers from diverse backgrounds.
Personification Poetry
Students will harvest the fruits of their imaginations and explore notions of empathy to construct uniquely moving poetry.
Soundscape Poetry
Those pupils who said they don’t like poetry will be writing furiously at the end of this magical workshop.
A Celebration in Rhyme
A celebration in Rhyme has been developed to help celebrate the stories your pupils love in verse.
Big Shakespeare Day
Everyone loves a good story – and as William Shakespeare was the greatest storyteller of them all!
World Book Day Teaching Resources
For those schools who would like to deliver their own whole-school World Book Day, we’ve put together some engaging resource packages that allow pupils to enjoy and engage with our best loved character-led workshops without them ever having to set foot inside school.
Each resources provides two – three hours of activity for every class from EYFS to Year 6/P1 – P7, and comes complete with introductory and celebratory films.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Fillolog
Whatever book our friend Vistie was reading as a little girl (and she read a lot of them!), it always featured Fillolog, an extraordinary creature with an extraordinary appetite for stories. They were there in the forest, as she read of wolves, owls and eagles. They were there in the sea as she devoured tales of pirates, shipwrecks and treasure islands. And they were there in the distance as she read of adventure, action and mystery. Fillolog also had their own story to tell – but now that Vistie has got older, it’s faded to the back of her memory. And that’s where you come in! Because you and your pupils have the chance to help her by writing a unique and extraordinary whole-school story – with Fillolog at its heart!
The pack comprises of; an opening assembly, followed by workshops (one per year group) and a closing assembly, all led by Vistie. There are also follow-up literacy activities designed to put flesh on the bones of the story.
Find out more at ascreativesconnect.com.
The Character Hunt
The great characters of fiction leap off the pages of the books they inhabit and into our imaginations because their authors have taken the trouble to breathe life into them, creating fully rounded beings. And now your pupils will get the chance to do that too, in The Character Hunt!
The children will meet The Mighty Pen a writer with plenty of wonderful ideas for stories – but no characters to put in them! The Pen, will, though, introduce your pupils to some archetypes – and challenge classes, a year group at a time, to take part in workshops designed to transform those archetypes into all-encompassing characters.
Both packages offer fantastic value for money and are available to download from ascreativesconnect.com.