Year 7 and 8 Writer Workshop

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