Year 7 and 8 Writer Workshop
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In readiness for National Poetry Day on the 6th October, our Year 7 and 8 pupils enjoyed a poetry workshop with writer Elizabeth Lewis Williams.

Focusing on this year’s National Poetry Day topic of ‘The Environment’, they devised their own poems featuring our local, indigenous environment and the wildlife that inhabits it. For our Year 8 children, loosestrife, the cliffs, the bittern and a tree at Covehithe all inspired some very beautiful verse:

I rise above others

Invade, conquer, ambush

Wearing a helmet of white and purple

I am loosestrife

Eleri, Year 8

 

I was born in the fens

By the ripple and dance of the water,

Rooted in decades

But stick close to my kin.

I am loosestrife

Gamar, Year 8

 

Home tumbles and slides away

Roots feel the winding wind

Crooked fingers grasp for life

Yasmine, Year 8.  Inspired by a tree in Covehithe that is falling as a result of the cliff erosion.

 

Conqueror, I throw spears of pink

From the marshbeds

I rise to the top

I am loosestrife

Solomon, Year 8

 

Glide, sneak, strut

Through rippled water

Isobel, Year 8. The bittern

 

Stride, strut, trudge

Through stirring marshes

Amrita, Year 8. The bittern

 

Creep, prowl, slip

Through the maze

of reeds

Alexis, Year 8. The bittern

 

I dream of death

An end to my suffering

An end to my pain

William, Year 8. The tree at Covehithe

   







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