National Poetry Day

On Thursday 7 October St Peter's School celebrated National Poetry Day, an annual mass celebration encouraging us all to enjoy, discover and share poetry. The theme for National Poetry Day this year was choice.

St Peter's 2-8 focused on global warming and how our choices affect the environment. Children explored the poem 'The Story of Squiddly Diddly' and thought carefully about the importance of marine conservation. The children enjoyed performing the poem to their class, and are looking forward to using the clips to create a whole school performance of the poem! The poem also inspired the children to upcycle their plastic bottles from home into artwork. The children have been writing lots of poems related to their themes, including Haikus, Kenning and acrostic poetry.

At St Peter's 8-13 Miss Isla Macdonald put up a trail of poems around the school for children to follow. Isla also organised group poetry readings by pupils and staff at lunchtime in the Library garden.

In addition to studying poems on the theme of 'Choice' in class, pupils at St Peter's 13-18 made 'fortune tellers' which gave them different themes and forms of poetry from which to choose. They then wrote poems inspired by their fortunes.

A National Poetry Day competition has been launched to find the best poet amongst our St Peter's 13-18 pupils. There are three themes to choose from; Autumn, Choice, and Reasons To Be Cheerful. A £10 book token is up for grabs and everyone is welcome to enter. All poems must be submitted to English teachers or Mrs Wong by the 16 October.