A SCHOOL has rounded off its Reading Week with a fancy dress competition.

Pupils at Durham School were challenged to attend classes dressed as their favourite book character.

Entries included Bart Simpson, the Jamaican bobsleigh team from Cool Runnings, stars of The Lego Movie and Little Red Riding Hood.

Judging followed on Master’s Green, with Austin Anderson finally declared the winner.

Elsewhere, older pupils read to younger ones and talked about the stories and characters, in the Pair and Share a Book project.

The school’s reading week initiative included World Book Day on Thursday (March 5), when storyteller Chris Bostock led workshops and younger pupils dressed up as their favourite fairytale characters.

Mr Bostock, who lives in Newcastle, is in great demand as a schools speaker, having worked across the country and overseas.

On Monday (March 2), comedian and writer Kate Fox entertained pupils with a talk.

Ms Fox has just been commissioned to make two shows for BBC Radio 4, to be broadcast in May - one about not wanting children and the second about not wanting a white wedding.

This year's World Book Day was overshadowed by reaction to a boy being barred from celebrations at his school in Sale for arriving dressed as a character from Fifty Shades of Grey.