Welcome to
Year 5

Contact details

Mrs Wren:
d.wren@bordon-junior.hants.sch.uk

Mrs Parkinson:
j.parkinson@bordon-junior.hants.sch.uk

Useful Links

• Microsoft Teams
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• Mindfulness from Smiling Mind
• Accelerated Reader
• Century

Mrs Wren’s recommended read for December

"I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had." Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam. Her brother Jed is the eldest, revered and special. A hero. Her younger brother is Trig – everyone loves Trig. But Maggie's just a middler; invisible and left behind. Then, one hot September day, she meets Una, a hungry wanderer girl in need of help, and everything Maggie has ever known gets turned on its head. Narrated expertly and often hilariously by Maggie, the reader experiences the trials and frustrations of being the forgotten middle child, the child with no voice, even in her own family. This is a gripping story of forbidden friendship, loyalty and betrayal.

Mrs Parkinson’s recommended read for November

In a period of English History that never happened, when Good King James III is on the throne, and the whole country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. When orphans Bonnie and Sylvia fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they need all their wits – and the help of Simon the goose-boy – to escape unscathed, for the governess is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase.

Filled with brilliantly-drawn Dickensian characters, it would make an excellent choice for strong readers who like an old-fashioned story with a strong plot and good characterisation. This book often appears on lists of best-loved children’s books.