Sharonlea Primary hosts its favourite book characters
SHARONLEA – Cinderella, prince charming and superheroes all come alive at Sharonlea Primary School's Character Day.
Princesses step out of their fairytales.
Book characters stepped out of the books and came alive at Sharonlea Primary School on 3 March as the school celebrated World Book Day.
The pupils all dressed up in their favourite characters and even though there were many princesses, pirates and even minions, the pupils were eager to show off their costumes and enjoyed the day being superheroes and royalty.
They promoted creativity all around.
Head of the English department at the school, Samantha Botes said they aimed to promote literacy during Literacy Week at the school.
“The learners were allowed to dress up as their favourite characters and they went to a lot of effort and spent lots of time on their characters,” she said.
All the Minions enjoy their day.
Teachers from the school come dressed as their favourite characters.
Kendall Gilbert, Isobel Siebert, Shamiska Govender and Stefany Mouton are all fish.
Betsy Hotter, Henk Kotze and Tiena Duys remember their favourite book, Jock of the Bushveld.
Marie Stroebel. Ronelle Davel and Judith Rix enjoy the day.
Laeticia Overbeek is Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady.
Eliza Doolittle comes dressed as Mary Poppins.
Jean Marie, Rene Lemmer and Elois van Vliet enjoy the day.
Thuli Tshabala plays the wicked witch being accosted by Alec the cowboy played by Geraldine Jerome.
Batman and Robin (Peter Machaka and Mel Naidoo) conquer the baddies.
The Minions come out to play. Tejal Hansrajh, Amber Gilliland, Samantha Botes, Justine Phiri and Nontombi Mpolweni.
Pascal Nwadike,
Principal of the school, Carla Hercules and Koketso Mtimkulu dressed as Minnie Mouse.
Pirates of the Carribean come to school.
Jacob Toyana is a Transformer.
Daniel Sikwase (Zoro), Neo Temeki (Ninja Turtle), Timika Ramsammy (Wonder Boy) Nyasha Gwangwadza (Super Woman) and Aluwani Rapash (princess) dress up as various characters.
Molemo Mtimkulu (sailor) Mthokozi Mazibuko (Willy Wonker) and Mathew Kallaway (Willy Wonker) enjoy the day as their favourite characters.
The princesses await their princes.
Jessica Davies, Sibongakonke Maila and Amissia Mbonzi dress up.
Sibongakonke Maila is the beast from Beauty and the Beast.
Katlego Molatlhwa plays a pirate who steals Rapunzel, played by Erin Bailey.
Mikateko Mathebula and Mikayla Mboso dress as Snow White.
Shivalia Pithumbar and Shinese Morgan enjoy dressing up.
Linah Monamela (Snow White), Jerome Sukdeo (pirate), Ruva Sajanga (fairy) and Palesa Siphali (princess) are all smiles in their outfits.
Jason Mdaki comes dressed as King Arthur from the book titled, King Flashy Pants.
Isreal Harber and Dharshan Naidoo come dressed as Harry Potter.
Mpho Moloi and Elijah Govender are firemen.
Emmanuel Jackson is dressed as Ratatouille.
Gary Asher and Zoe Rose dress up.
The princesses all come out to play.
She explained that almost all the pupils and teachers participated in the day’s activities and there was a great spirit of books all around.
“Our school is very pro reading and we encourage the learners to bring their books to school and today we celebrated our favourite characters in the books that we read at the school,” Botes added.
She pointed out that Readers Warehouse had set up at the school selling books to pupils to encourage them to keep on reading.
