Pupils at Burntisland Primary celebrated World Book Day with a 'roaring' Oor Wullie

Staff and pupils with 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' Oor Wullie to celebrate World Book Day at Burntisland Primary. Pic: Fife Photo Agency

The youngsters were celebrating World Book Day and had a chance to get up close and personal with the sculpture from the Bucket Trail as part of the day’s activities.

The pupils all dressed up for the event last Thursday and headteacher Julie Anderson explained how the visit from Oor Wullie came about.

She said: “Ida Cornwall, one of our pupils popped a question in our pupil suggestion box that read 'Please can we dress up for World Book Day this year?''. She then carried out consultation around the whole school and the majority of children voted for a dress up to as well as the obvious learning about literacy on the day!

“We spent quite a bit of time at assemblies talking about how we could use items from home to dress up easily, so that no new outfits would need to be bought.

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“This all tied in with a visit from yet another Oor Wullie from the Bucket Trail. This one is named The Tiger Who Cam to Tea, by it's owner Mrs Anna Briggs. Mrs Briggs allowed us to have him for World Book Day as we felt his theme tied nicely in with the famous book by Judith Kerr.

“This ''Oor Wullie' was painted by a Glenrothes based artist, Donna Forrester.

“We had a fabulous day and the children, staff and dinner ladies all joined in the fun and learned a great deal in to the bargain!”