St Peter's 8-13 celebrate National Poetry Day

To celebrate National Poetry Day, a poetry reading was held at the St Peter's 8-13 Library on Thursday 6 October. Twenty-two pupils representing every year from J1 to J5, as well as four members of staff, volunteered to come to the Library at lunchtime to read one of their favourite poems to the audience. As this year's National Poetry Day theme was "The Environment", we had lots of poems about animals and nature, as well as some more general favourites. There was a wonderful range of poems, from The Owl and the Pussycat to Ozymandias, and we even had two bilingual poems! Mrs Hebden and Eloise in J3 read "Si..." by Jean-Luc Moreau, taking turns in French and English, and Arina in J5 read "I Loved You" by Alexander Pushkin in both Russian and English. A special well done has to go to Thomas and Hattie in J4, Freddie and Liam in J2, and Mr Harvey, who all read poems they had written themselves.

It was a fantastic way to celebrate poetry, and to hear a lot of different styles of poem in half an hour!