Where’s Wally, Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz, and Elsa from Frozen were just some of the characters found roaming the halls of John Logie Baird Primary School last week. Pupils enjoyed dressing up as their favourite literary characters as part of the event and also received a visit from author Stuart Buchanan. Mrs Paton, principal teacher at John Logie Baird, said: “The children and staff enjoyed dressing up as their favourite story book characters for world book day. “We were delighted to welcome a local author to the school and the children competed in various activities throughout the day.” Hermitage Academy library marked the event on Thursday, March 5 with a lucky dip of literary-themed events. One of the highlights of the day was a lucky dip poetry competition in which pupils used a cut-up poetry technique where six poems were cut up into their constituent words and pupils had to pull a handful to construct a poem. The results were so impressive that librarian Aileen Cameron – who was judging the competition – decided that everyone was a winner and deserved a prize. She told the Advertiser: “I was stunned by how good the poems were – the words the pupils picked out really stimulated their creativity.” Caroline Swain, librarian, added: “It is great to see so much enthusiasm and so many budding poets.” The cut-up poetry technique was first used by the Dadaists to construct poems in the 1920s and was later used extensively by beat poet William Burroughs. The poems cut up at the Hermitage Academy library event were The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost; I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Dreams by Langston Hughes; The Thrush’s Nest and All Nature Has A Feeling – both by John Clare – and The Rose That Grew In Concrete’ by Tupac Shakur.