Using texts to help us understand how poverty affects lives

Across the school, a range of literature has been used to help children to understand the real-life struggles people around the world are facing. Delving into a text, enables us to understand difficult and troubling situations in an empathetic, compassionate way. This particular example, by Riya in 5 Beech, was trying to capture the struggle marginalised characters have as a result of their poverty - stricken lives.