This week in English, Year 1 have been reading the book Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival.  The children focused on identifying Ruby's different feelings throughout the story and discussed how her emotions changed as the worry grew and eventually disappeared.  To deepen their understanding, the class took part in a hot-seating activity, where one child pretended to be Ruby and the others asked thoughtful questions about how she was feeling at different points in the story.  This helped the children to develop empathy and understand how worries can affect us and how talking about them can help.