A group of Year 7 students have been making the most of the allotment on the school site. They have been meeting up on Wednesday at lunchtime to set up the allotment and have enjoyed getting stuck into planting vegetables and herbs as well as assisting in putting up a new fence.

With the recent current political events, I have taken several requests for book recommendations about refugees and asylum seekers, and I thought it may be useful to share some of these titles with you. The subject can be a difficult one to explain and novels often prove a useful springboard for exploring the issues and experiences surrounding the reasons why people are forced to flee their homes and start a new life in a foreign country. The following titles can be borrowed from the school library, and I have listed their Accelerated Reader book levels.

I have also included an update regarding the ‘The Big Jubilee Read’, with the link to the seventy novels that have made the final reading challenge.