Class 10 received ‘A Child’s Garden’ by Michael Foreman for its mystery book challenge. After sharing and exploring the story they then applied their comprehension skills to – peer set – literal, inference, reader response and author intent questions based on the text. Unfortunately, to further emphasise the segregation and persecution we identified in the story, one of our tables had to undertake this task in isolation. Following on from this the children then chose to further explore the story through role-play/freeze framing: some groups created their favourite scenes from the story, others tried to create a full sequence to represent the story and a few even chose to portray how they wanted to the story to progress. And finally to round off our day, children collaborated within their self-chosen groups to represent a page from the story with a diorama.