Bible comes to life on World Book Day

CHILDREN and staff at St Mary Magdalene's Roman Catholic School in Hastings Road, Bexhill celebrated World Book Day last Thursday by dressing up as characters from the Bible.

By The Newsroom

Published 16th Mar 2011, 12:00 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 21:26 BST

Their choice of tome was influenced by March 2011 also being dedicated to Celebrating Religious Education and the school’s Catholic tradition.

Year five teacher Nicola Levett, who doubled as “the widow and her mite”, said youngsters and teachers had all thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and added: “We had a variety of characters turn up for the day.

“Joseph was teaching in Year four whilst in the infants they had Veronica teaching year two. There were also appearances from Noah, Joseph, Herod, Heaven and Mary.

“And. of course, there were also shepherds and sheep plus other animals featured in the Bible.”

Bexhill