Welcome to River Class

My name is Lucy Amplett and I am the class teacher.

Libby Uzzell-FFrench is the teaching assistant that works in the classroom with me.

This term our project is Food and Nutrition.

We are also considering 

• What do we mean when we say we are ‘starving’?
• Do you ever feel hungry?
• Are we really starving or are there people who are starving?

Our core text is…

Whole class Guided reading takes place every day.

Jim Jarvis is a runway. When his mother dies, he is all alone in the workhouse and desperate to escape. But London in the 1860s is a dangerous and lonely place…

“Jim dodged from one light to the next until he came to the shop he was looking for. It was the meat pudding shop. Hungry boys and skinny dogs hovered round the doorway, watching for scraps. He could hear his stomach gurgling as the rich smell of hot gravy met him”.  

Our project music: