Roald Dahl Day is celbrated in style

ON TUESDAY, September 13, Hopelands Preparatory School celebrated 100 years of one of our best story tellers with our Roald Dahl theme day.

All of the children came to school dressed as a character from a Roald Dahl story, and yes the staff joined in too!

We had Witches and Wonkas, Twits and BFGs and even the great man himself (in the guise of a Year 4 boy) paid us a visit.

Roald Dahl is one of the most influential children’s authors that has ever lived.

His hilarious and imaginative books will always continue to make reading fun for children around the world.

His daily timetable perhaps explains his success (especially the lunchtime tipple.)

8am - breakfast in bed and open his post.

10.30am - he would walk through the garden to his writing hut and work until 12noon.

12.30pm - lunch - typically, a gin and tonic followed by Norwegian prawns with mayonnaise and lettuce.

At the end of every meal, Roald and his family had a chocolate bar chosen from a red plastic box.

After a snooze, he would take a flask of tea back to the writing hut and work from 4pm to 6pm.

6pm sharp - back to house ready for dinner

So, we made and consumed Snozzcumbers in Year 4, Bird Pie and Fizzy Pop in Year 3 and Frobscottle in Year 2.

To our knowledge there was no obvious whizzpopping though it could be that no-one was splitzwiggled.

All in all it was a whoopsy wiffling, gloriumptious, phizz-whizzing day which we are sure will create many lovely memories and ringbellers for the children.