READING students were asked to decorate spooky fictional characters to celebrate Hallowe’en this week.
Theale Green School, on Church Street, Theale, saw pupils and staff members getting creative with their pumpkins.
The winning student pumpkin was a design of Jack and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
And the winning staff one was Ms Cooze’s design of Coraline, voted for by 60 students.
Other creations included Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, Spiderman and more.
Emily Bevan, head of English, said: “The literary pumpkins competition encouraged students to combine their love of art and literature in a new and innovative way.
“We were so impressed by the standard of artwork as well as the time and effort dedicated to designing such beautiful attributes to the literary world.”
Headteacher Jo Halliday said: “Our library has become an important learning and social hub for our students, who are used to having regular lessons in there and catching up with Ms Archer our librarian.
“What makes it really special though are all the extra activities that are offered in social times.”
Ms Halliday added it was a joy to admire the pumpkins on display.
“Looking around the room, there were also large groups of students playing chess, reading books and using the computers,” she said.
“We are very fortunate to have such strong leadership of this resource, and I know how much the students appreciate it.”
