This week, we have celebrated National Poetry Day (Thursday 4th October), through various events, displays and competitions. The theme for this year’s National Poetry Day was ‘Change’, which has produced some fabulous, thought-provoking original writing.
The girls in Years 7-9 were tasked to write their creative poems on butterfly and caterpillar templates to symbolise ‘Change’. They were then invited to place their completed symbols on the Poetree in the English corridor as a celebration of the creative writing process. As the tree grows, so the girls are able to spread and share the message of change with our whole school community.
The first six weeks of term are spent exploring, creating and performing poetry from rap to Shakespeare’s verse, multiple LRC activities in the Junior and Senior Schools and pop-up poetry on the walls around the school.
Please do take time to see the wonderful display in the English corridor.
Here are examples of our pupil’s inspirational poems:
A Normal Day – Alana Ball (Year 7)
A normal day,
wind whispering in the trees,
it gets a bit stronger,
as strong as the seas,
the sea darkens at 10am like it’s far into the night,
but what was forming ahead was a terrible fright,
the seas crashed and splashed and wanted a fight,
a dark cloud suddenly appears covering everything in
sight,
and it grew and grew and grew once more,
until everything was covered and everything was under,
then out comes the thunder,
Flash, BOOM, the sky lights up,
out comes a streak of frightening lightning,
how could people know that the weather would be this way,
don’t they just wish it was a normal day.
A-is for Autumn and W-is for Winter – Kate Evans (Year 8)
As the Autumn leaves
Turns to the frosty breeze
And the leafless trees
Have fully freezed
And the crunch of the leaves
And the colour of the trees
As the quiet dinner by the fire
And the pumpkin pie for dessert
As the Year comes to the end
And the summer is around the bend
As we all over-spend
And we share with our good friends
