Welcome to
Year 5

Contact details

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

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

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Mrs Wren’s recommended read for November

Faye Fitzgerald is sent to boarding school on a bleak and treeless island. In fact, she is one of the first pupils of Auk Island School, a desolate and battered place, wild and remote, seemingly at the world’s end. Abandoned with only six other pupils at the school –– Faye discovers that she and the other pupils have been sent there for doing something wicked. But what has she done?

She remembers so little of the night everything changed – the night that robbed her of being able to speak. She might be bold enough to tackle the sinister mysteries of the island, but has she the courage to face the secrets deep within herself?

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.